Word: rules
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...informed the White House that the proposed timing of his trip would make it seem as if he were being drawn into the peace process. West Bankers these days would not mind if that were the case. Although they felt neglected and suppressed during the 19 years of Jordanian rule (1948-67), they feel that the King has mellowed somewhat, and they welcome the financial aid he gives to the West Bank ($70 million last year...
...Camp David and the autonomy talks. To speak frankly, what is Camp David? It is a tragedy for my people, a new form of slavery. The U.S. and Israel say they are offering us autonomy. But it is not self-rule. It is self-administration, and I call it garbage. The Israelis have control of everything, even the sources of water. Give me an example anywhere in the world where a village does not control its own drinking water. Israel wants more borders than any other state in the world: defensible borders, historic borders, biblical borders, and now they want...
...days he travels from his office in Amman to the West Bank only once a year to avoid the "humiliating experience" of being stripped at the Allenby Bridge checkpoint. Staunchly pro-American, Irsheid was a member of the Jordanian Parliament when the West Bank was under Amman's rule; he is disenchanted with what he calls a "two-faced American policy that talks of human rights while providing weapons for the Israeli occupation." Palestinians, he adds, "feel more and more that they are fighting America and not just Israel, and all for the sake of Jewish voters...
...Maddy DeLone's crisp direction. DeLone makes full use of the intimate confines of the Winthrop House JCR, organizing the human traffic with all the aplomb of a Back Bay traffic cop. A Stoppard play needs technical gadgetry: for true comic effect, Enter a Free Man should have a "Rule Britannia" clock, a few portraits of the Queen, BBC radio droning in the background, and "indoor rain." The Winthrop production manages well without them, but the loss of these elements cannot help but detract a little from our enjoyment...
...along the way. In the end, it is the snappy one-liners that we have come to expect from Tom Stoppard that shine through and send us away chuckling. After all, Britannia's 3000 miles away; as Linda suggests, maybe a sudden wave of loony patriotism will put a Rule Britannia clock in every home...