FROM BRIAN LIFEOF IN JERUSALEM

“WHAT IF WE just handed the whole place back to the Romans?” says Moshe, a Monty Python fan from Tel Aviv. “I fear that we are condemned to an endless round of this deep into the century and beyond. And as the Arab population swells, our advantages shrink. You can’t use a five hundred kilo bomb on your neighbor if he lives next door. So, we bring back the Romans, and let them keep order – they knew how to.”