A couple of times in the last few years I’ve heard stories of Palestinians who say they trembled in fear when they saw someone wearing a yarmulke. Because their entire experience of people wearing yarmulkes was, intimidation, violence. In the two stories I remember, these Palestinians overcame their fear when they understood that there were good Jews too, that not all people with yarmulkes wanted to hurt them, or used that power.
Oh but what Palestinian would not be frightened by these boys with their yarmulkes at the Reunified Jerusalem rally in Occupied East Jerusalem on June 1? And the nutty religious woman saying the land of Israel belongs to the Jews, and you better repent. Repent, repent, I wonder what they meant.
