Volume 53, Number 14 · September 21, 2006
Living in an Impasse
By Brian Urquhart
It's Easier to Reach Heaven Than the End of the Street: A Jerusalem Memoir
by Emma Williams
London: Bloomsbury, 450 pp., £14.99
The Great War for Civilisation: The Conquest of the Middle East
by Robert Fisk
Knopf, 1,107 pp., $40.00
Was ever a place on earth so haunted as the Middle East by the arrogance and thoughtlessness of the past, by the special interests and irresponsibility of powerful outsiders, and now by the cycle of outrage and revenge that consumes Israelis and Palestinians in an unequal but deadly struggle? Has any other historic problem absorbed so much effort to resolve it with so few positive results?
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