1 March 2004
[T]here is the Shakespearean resolution and there is the Chekhovian one. On the one hand, at the end of a Shakespearean tragedy, the stage is strewn with dead bodies and maybe there's some justice hovering high above. A Chekhov tragedy, on the other hand, ends with everybody disillusioned, embittered, heartbroken, disappointed, absolutely shattered, but still alive. And I want a Chekhovian and not a Shakespearean one for the Israeli/Palestinian tragedy.
-- Amos Oz.
(Photos: Top - Incursion in Jabalya, REUTERS/Ahmed Jadallah; Bottom - Bus bombing in Jerusalem, AFP/Eitan Abramovich)
