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Sharansky

[ shuh-ran-skee; Russian shchuh-rahn-skyee ]

noun

  1. Na·tan Anatoly Borisovich Shcharansky, [nah-, tahn], born 1948, Israeli politician and human-rights activist, born in Soviet Ukraine.


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Prominent Soviet dissidents Vladimir Bukovsky and Natan Sharansky were released in these exchanges.

In a speech at the American Enterprise Institute’s World Forum in June 2002, Sharansky said that the Israeli-Palestinian conflict was “not a tribal war between Jews and Arabs in the Middle East,” but rather a key battle in “the first world war of the 21st century, waged between the world of terror and the world of democracy.”

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He brought Sharansky into the White House and introduced him to Bush, who came gradually to adopt his views.

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Elections, as Sharansky wrote in his 2004 book The Case for Democracy, “are not a true test of a democracy.”

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Sharansky made this point to Bush in person in May 2005 after resigning from the Israeli government in protest of its withdrawal from Gaza.

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