Religious broadcaster Pat Robertson of Chesapeake apologized Jan. 12 to the family of Israeli Prime Minister Ariel Sharon for suggesting on television that Sharon’s recent stroke could be God’s judgment for ceding the Gaza Strip and Northern West Bank to the Palestinians.
“I ask your forgiveness and the forgiveness of the people of Israel for remarks I made at the time concerning the writing of the holy prophet Joel and his view of the inviolate nature of the land of Israel,” Robertson wrote in a letter to Omri Sharon, the prime minister’s son.