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Article: Two Bosses of the West Bank
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- The Washington Post
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- March 25, 1988
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George Bernard Shaw, playwright, theater critic and -- because
he was that good -- a journalist who covered the absurdity of human
nature, would have loved the West Bank. In his play "Saint Joan," a
witness at the trial that condemned Joan is told -- not asked -- to
sit. As a result, he refuses, but when the judge permits him to
stand, he balks once again and takes his seat. From imaginary
15th-century France to the present-day Middle East, nothing much has
changed.
Here in the Biblical city where the Israelites first crossed the
Jordan River, the Palestine Liberation Organization -- through
leaflets and radio broadcasts -- has decreed a daily strike. In the
afternoon, merchants ...