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“Would You Like to Eat Now or Wait for the Cease-fire?” Thomas L. Friedman titled the second chapter of his book “Would You Like to Eat Now or Wait for the Cease-fire?” due the large amount of violence in Beirut. One man that Friedman talked too, Amnon Shahak, describes a particularly grossest event, “They took me through the crowd to the front, and I found set before me on the steps three orange crates. One had human heads in it, another had torsos, and the other arms and legs. They said these were Druse sheiks whom the Christians had ambushed and then carved them up.”(Friedman 23). An event pertaining more too Friedman was when his apartment was blown up, “Someone has blown up your house”(Friedman 25). This event shows how nobody is safe from the daily violence that occurs in Beirut, not even a reporter that has only been there a few weeks. No part of Beirut was without some type of violence, even the golf course, “Several members were hit by bullets in their backswings there, because the 460-yard hole ran perpendicular to a PLO firing range(Friedman 31). During the Civil War violence was a part of everyday life, the citizens would live in fear for most of their lives. However when there was a break in the fighting the people would try to live a normal life. “The hostess out off serving dinner, hoping things would settle down, but she could see that her friends were getting nervous…Would you like to eat now or wait for the cease-fire”(Friedman 30)

Friedman, Thomas L. //From Beirut To Jerusalem//. New York: Anchor Books, 1990. Print.