Word: rebellions
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...spend so much of the play intoxicated. The most successfully genuine moments of the play center around the reminiscences of Teresa and her husband, Frank (David Modigliani '02), as they describe their early courtship. Catherine (Lisa Faiman '03), the youngest sister, appears to be a walking stereotype of moderate rebellion. She seems to suffer the most from unrealized potential, frequently stumbling into a somewhat monotonous level of contrivance...
Yasser Arafat and his urbane negotiators are not the Palestinians who waged the last intifada - and that fact may be a key to understanding the inner workings of the current uprising. While it's widely recognized that Arafat may not be able to stop the current rebellion even if he chose to, what's less commonly recognized is that this is not simply because the next generation of intifada-ists who have taken up the stones of their older siblings will be disinclined to accept the old man's leadership. Every popular uprising, after all, has a leadership...
...Then as now, the Israelis were able to contain the rebellion through force, but they were unable to end it - and the continued application of force was hurting Israel politically. That led the Israelis to begin tentative informal discussions with the PLO in 1989. Although the Palestinian delegates to the initial formal talks in Madrid in 1991 came from the West Bank and Gaza rather than from PLO headquarters, they all took direction from the leadership in Tunis...
...Arafat certainly needed the current rebellion to strengthen his hand at the negotiating table against proposals on Jerusalem he deemed political suicide. But its continuation precludes a return to the negotiating table, and therefore makes the attainment of his cherished dream of a Palestinian state increasingly unlikely in his lifetime. Even then, the Palestinian leader may have little option but to act as a spokesman for the intifada, for fear of simply sidelining himself...
...course, it's a circular game: The Palestinians can't muster the requisite force to expel the Israelis from the West Bank and Gaza, but they can make life there extremely uncomfortable for Israeli soldiers and settlers. Meanwhile, the Israelis can't crush the rebellion, and the force they're applying in pursuit of that goal will force even friendly governments in the Arab and Western worlds to distance themselves from Israel. So the situation stalemates once again in an ugly equilibrium. Ugly, but not necessarily unstable...