Charles Krauthammer Recommend this article  WASHINGTON -- The
stroke suffered by Israel's Prime Minister Ariel Sharon could
prove to be one of the great disasters in the country's
near-60-year history. As I write this, Sharon's condition
remains uncertain, but the severity of his stroke makes it
unlikely that he will survive, let alone return to power. That
could be disastrous because Sharon represented, indeed embodied,
the emergence of a rational, farsighted national idea that
seemed poised in the coming elections to create a stable
governing political center for the first time in decades.  For a
generation, Israeli politics have offered two alternatives. The
left said: We have to negotiate peace with the Palestinians. The
right said: There's no one to talk to because they don't want to
make peace; they want to destroy us, so we stay in the occupied
territories and try to integrate them into Israel.  The left was
given its chance with the 1993 Oslo peace accords. They proved a
fraud and a deception. The PLO