so the other thing is he pan 101 in the early fifties and this was the first elite commando unit and the whole ethic of that but, no rules, we are above rules and we lie, and they were lied about afterwards and that became sort of the way that these commando units or these 19-year-old kid, very bright, very capable young people, doing these very daring acts and he set the tone for that throughout the entire commando units of the israeli military. >> rose: what was his relationship with others, both in likud and labor, whether it was just think of all the people who have been prime ministers from shanir to barack to simon perez, netanyahu, take -- i mean i will answer quickly. >> rose: rabin. >> i think the older guys, these gaze really admired him in a way for his native born grit that they loved, that they felt represented sort of the sabre mentality and outlook, his piers found it difficult to get along with him and without his career he got in incredible rifts with people. he and netanyahu never got along. >> why is that? >> because he was a guy who followed any rulings rules and

he created a commando unit. creetated israely reputation for ruthless reprisal. and tried to drive yasser arafat out of his compound. he created a siege of arafat's compound and made him a presumerrener in his own home and forced him outside of the west bank. and he never saw the palestinian state. so many of those people called sharon a butcher. called him a war criminal where as these people called him a war hero. that is the kind of polarization that we are she people talk about ariel sharon today. >> i want to talk about the burial tomorrow. explain to us more about that decision not to be buried at the national cemetery when so many similar leaders have been buried. why is he going to the south of israel to his family farm? >> yeah, you saw ariel sharon's son the other day announcing his death saying my father went when he wanted to go. and that is so typical of what sharon did all his life. he didn't listen to his military commanders as a young general as prime minister. he made unilateral moves to what he thought was peace. so what he did when his wife did

he created a commando unit that created ruthless reprisals. he was a military leader who won famous bot battles and he redrew the borders. his aggressiveness caught up with him. he supported militias that went into refugee camps that slaughtered hundreds of thousands of civilians. he should have resigned and it should have been the end of his career. he returned to power and as prime minister he redrew the borders, creating a separation barrier between israel and the palestine territories. he pulled out settlers he helped to in-store. for so many he was the pillar of strength, and for others he was the symbol of cruelty. that polarization is what we are seeing in the statements and responses. for example, from hamas, which runs the gaza strip , they say: - >> the president of isra israisrael shimon peres said: >> that polarization and controversy. as one reporter put it, today's israel is ariel sharon's israel. that's what we'll see as he's laid in state and on monday for a funeral down at his form. >> nick schifrin live in jerusalem. >> in we

he was known for his daring and in some cases, infamously for heading a commando unit that was disbanded for awe parent atrocat this. in 1956, his military career in the sinai war was a bit e dripsed. but in 1973, he was the hero of the moment, the man who was proclaimed and erik, king of israel because after the egyptian and syrian attacks, he commanded units in contrary to military orders from his superiors and actually crossed the sues canal with an israel column and that really reversed the tide and forced the cease-fire which resulted several years later in the actual withdraw of israeli forces from egyptian territory. >> tom, for the moment, many thanks. tom ackerman live in tel aviv. let's get a different perspective, from the secretary general of the palestinian national initiative. he joins us live from ramala. thanks for being with united states. how do you think that history will judge ariel sharon? >> of course, there is no gloating in death. probably shareon will be judged in history for many, many of his aimpressions, aggressive attacks that he did against the palestinian p

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they cite examples, in the 1950's, sharon led a unit of elite commandos and they created the reputational. after a couple palestinian militants killed, that unit went into a town and laid siege to that town and killed 67 civillens, mostly women and children. palestinians cite that example and southern lebanon when sharon was minister of defense, israeli military rolled into outern lebanon, thousands of palestinians were killed in that offensive. right at the end of that offensive, sharon stood back while militias he was allied with went into refugee catches and slaughtered hundreds of thousands of palestinians, so a lot of people here not celebrating this man, not calling him a war hero as many israelis call him, instead a war criminal. >> reporting from outside sharon's ranch in southern israel, nick, thank you. >> at the age of 13, he joined the underground paramilitary force. six years later in 1948, he fought in the battle for jerusalem. in 1967, he commanded an armored division during the six day war against egypt, jordan and syria. during the yom kippur war, it turned the fighting