A year and a half after President Bush demanded that the Palestinians remove Yasir Arafat from power, a new Palestinian government has now been installed and its unchallenged leader is ... Yasir Arafat. ... This is a tragic failure. ... Prime Minister Ariel Sharon's government says it will try harder with Mr. Qurei. Unfortunately, this movie already feels like a remake. This editorial appears in the Saturday, 15 November edition of NYT. Follow the movie meme, as life imitates art imitates life. I am left wondering whether the "try harder" comment above is also a dig at the Wachowski Brothers, since many critics of "Revolutions" opined that the fight for Zion went on too long, leading them to ask, rhetorically, "When is this war going to end?" |