Lia Tarachansky sent this along, saying she gets news like this all the time. Three undercover Israeli security men grab a 10-year-old boy in Silwan (a village in occupied Jerusalem just below the Dung gate of the Old City).They hold him for a couple of hours, accuse him of throwing stones.
Note the fierce spirit of resistance in the boy’s account. This is the spiritual challenge to American Jews; Palestinians never wanted this emigration or colonization, and we can never force acceptance on them (e.g., Noah Feldman’s advice to Palestinians the other day, they must “evolve from rejection of Israel to pragmatic acceptance and grudging formal acceptance”); no, the challenge is to gain Palestinians as stakeholders in the government that determines their futures. And how do you do that? And if you say it is a two-state solution, then what the hell are Israelis doing arresting 10-year-olds in East Jerusalem?
Captain Shadi spoke to my father. “Your son is still young, he should focus on his studies or he’ll be joining his brothers in prison.” “He’s here if you want to put him in prison,” my father said. “I’ll do that when I want, not when you want,” Shadi replied. He then untied me and I went home with my father.
