I have a pet theory about the Israeli-Palestinian conflict — that it is to wider trends in world affairs what off-Broadway is to Broadway. A lot of stuff seems to get perfected there in miniature — from airline hijackings to suicide bombings, from building walls to keep others out to lone wolf terrorism — and then moves to Broadway, to bigger stages.
So, I ask, what’s playing off Broadway these days? It’s a political drama that may offer a distant mirror on our own presidential politics.
Israel has held two national elections since April, but the country is so perfectly divided that it still hasn’t been able to produce a governing coalition.