Volume 29, Number 13 · August 12, 1982

Manifest Destiny

By A.B. Yehoshua, Translated by D. Nottman

As I write the battle in West Beirut is not yet finished. Will it end in a political settlement, or will the Israeli government really dare to order its army to enter the city and take it by force, with all the killing and destruction such a military operation entails, and all this in order to 'terminate' the war Israel started?



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