Ariel Sharon has been in a coma for nearly 4 years now. Suddenly his close advisers (Dov Weisglass) and some of his doctors are saying that chances are good that he will wake up in the near future and be completely normal.

I have no idea what the chances of that actually are after 4 years in a coma, and how they can know it now when they have not until now, but who cares?

In light of the recent developments, I am linking to an old post of mine that was extremely popular less than a year after Sharon fell into his lengthy hibernation. It was copied in many places (most not giving me credit, but I could tell it was mine because of the exactly copied wording - I had translated it from Hebrew).

So here goes: If Arik would wake up today...

(I should really update it with the new details of who is running the State, but it is funny enough in its original form)