ouze BrE slang

The interview, the paragraph, and the existence of Ouze Merham himself have been denounced as fabrications.

The station was opened with the line to Ely, and was originally named Ouze Bridge.

(See Alleged Ouze Merham interview of Ariel Sharon.)

According to the allegations, Sharon was interviewed by a general named Ouze Merham about his service in the 1956 Suez Crisis, and said the following:

Before Ouze Bridge and Trinity Church meet, what is built in the day shall fall in the night, till the highest stone of the Church shall be the lowest stone of the Bridge.

In the first decade of the 21st century, a paragraph alleged to come from a 1956 interview of Ariel Sharon, conducted by an Israel Defense Forces general named Ouze Merham, was quoted in a number of publications.

The biggest reed-bed creation scheme in Europe is part of the Great Ouze Wetland, where the RSPB and Hanson Aggregates are in partnership to create landscaped lakes in a sand and gravel quarry.

Based on the reported Ouze Merham interview, the Islamic Human Rights Commission announced Sharon as the winner of the "Most Islamophobic International Politician of the Year" award at the 2003 Annual Islamophobia Awards ceremony.

A columnist for The Hoya, the student newspaper of Georgetown University in Washington, D.C., used the quotation on March 19, 2002, introducing it with "Then again, we shouldn't be surprised about Sharon's feelings toward Palestinians; in 1956 when talking with Israeli General Ouze Merham, he said [.]"