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An admiring article on Israel's new Labor leader, Ehud Barak, speculates that the besieged Likud government is headed for more trouble and may turn to Barak for support.
Six years later he besieged Vienna for 24 days (unsuccessfully) before going on to take most of Hungary.
I frankly don't know what to make of Besieged , which attempts to forge a complicated relationship between its protagonists through "pure cinema," and has won admiration for being allusive, elusive, elliptical, and other words that begin with "a" and "e" (enigmatic, ambivalent, evocative, etc.).
"Knowledge was divided among the Scots, like bread in a besieged town, to every man a mouthful, to no man a bellyful."
Besieged with information and short on time, what is a person to do?