The Middle East Media Research Institute translates a recent article by Saudi columnist Khalaf Al-Harbi, published in the Saudi government daily Okaz, arguing that the number of Arabs Ariel Sharon “killed is nowhere near that of those who died at the hands of Arab rulers, especially since the onset of the Arab Spring.”

I made a related point in “The Arab Myth of Ariel Sharon” in this week’s issue of THE WEEKLY STANDARD. Considering the Arab media’s assessments of Sharon published after his death January 11, I noted that many of them saw the Israeli leader as “evil incarnate.” Worse yet, with some Arab commentators “describing a genealogy that begins with the Israeli leader” and culminates with Syrian president Bashar al-Assad, they were “offering an excuse for Arab pathology.”