New York Times
March 15, 2013
Is This Where the Third Intifada Will Start?
By BEN EHRENREICH
On the evening of Feb. 10, the living room of Bassem Tamimi's house in the West Bank village of Nabi Saleh was filled with friends and relatives smoking and sipping coffee, waiting for Bassem to return from prison. His oldest son, Waed, 16, was curled on the couch with his 6-year-old brother, Salam, playing video games on the iPhone that the prime minister of Turkey had given their sister, Ahed. She had been flown to Istanbul to receive an award after photos of her shaking her fist at an armed Israeli soldier won her, at 11, a brief but startling international celebrity. Their brother Abu Yazan, who is 9, was on a tear in the yard, wrestling with an Israeli activist friend of Bassem's. Nariman, the children's mother, crouched in a side room, making the final preparations for her husband's homecoming meal, laughing at the two photographers competing for shots from the narrow doorway as she spread onions onto oiled flatbreads.
Read on at: http://www.nytimes.com/2013/03/17/magazine/is-this-where-the-third-intifada-will-start.html
March 15, 2013
Is This Where the Third Intifada Will Start?
By BEN EHRENREICH
On the evening of Feb. 10, the living room of Bassem Tamimi's house in the West Bank village of Nabi Saleh was filled with friends and relatives smoking and sipping coffee, waiting for Bassem to return from prison. His oldest son, Waed, 16, was curled on the couch with his 6-year-old brother, Salam, playing video games on the iPhone that the prime minister of Turkey had given their sister, Ahed. She had been flown to Istanbul to receive an award after photos of her shaking her fist at an armed Israeli soldier won her, at 11, a brief but startling international celebrity. Their brother Abu Yazan, who is 9, was on a tear in the yard, wrestling with an Israeli activist friend of Bassem's. Nariman, the children's mother, crouched in a side room, making the final preparations for her husband's homecoming meal, laughing at the two photographers competing for shots from the narrow doorway as she spread onions onto oiled flatbreads.
Read on at: http://www.nytimes.com/2013/03/17/magazine/is-this-where-the-third-intifada-will-start.html
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