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...faith to those whose personal calamities have caused them to forsake it is desperate and misguided [July 19]. Giving up belief ought to be seen as the valid conclusion to a tragedy. It is remarkable that disasters of every sort can be contorted into reasons to continue, rather than abandon, religious conviction...
Even more interesting, Lachow's approach makes the staging reflect a recurrent theme in the play, the repeated and unsuccessful attempts of the characters to abandon artifice and bombast; they man age occasionally for a line or two but never for long...
...faces two choices: either its troops remain where they are, engaging in artillery exchanges, or they try to penetrate our territory. If they attack, they will fail. They will not be capable of imposing a regime on Iraq that would be a lackey for Tehran. They will have to abandon their dreams and hallucinations, and agree to coexist peacefully with Iraq...
Somehow, most have forgotten that the PLO's charter calls for the "extermination" of Israel "economically, politically, militarily, culturally and ideologically." Not surprisingly then, Israel remains reluctant to accept a PLO-run state on its doorstep. The Palestinians can expect little from Israel until they abandon their desire to "push the Jews into the Sea" and advocate a peaceful co-existence...
Still, Israel is now in a position of strength. If the PLO can some-how be convinced to recognize Israel and abandon terrorism, Menachem Begin will have a unique opportunity to display the courage of benevolence. First, he will have to renounce the ideal of a "Great Israel" that would incorporate the occupied territories. Then, he must sit at the negotiating table with a demilitarized PLO, which, for all its disunity, still constitutes the closest thing to a legitimate leadership of the Palestinian people...