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David Blumenfeld had just been shot by Omar Khatib, a young member of a radical faction of the Palestinian Liberation Organization. His attempted murder was part of a conspiracy to kill tourists in Jerusalem in order to attract international attention to their cause; the group would claim three victims in the coming days. David was lucky. The bullet went high, grazing his scalp, and he recovered quickly and completely. Laura, meanwhile, struggled to find a way to come to terms with what she later called “my first brush with evil...
...remarkable story of a young woman who wouldn’t forget. While Laura’s research on revenge is enlightening, the book revolves around her relationship with the shooter’s family. During her year in Jerusalem, Laura learns that the shooter, Omar Khatib, is still serving time for the attack. She manages to track down his family and, introducing herself to the Khatibs only as Laura, an American journalist covering the Middle East, begins the hugely emotional process of befriending them. She struggles to keep her composure at times, such as when a 12-year...
Many Palestinians fail to see what all the fuss over the guns is about. "I don't see why the Palestinians are being so defensive about it," says Ghassan Khatib, a leading Palestinian political analyst. "It's a war. Why is everybody entitled to defend themselves except us?" Certainly there are parallels between the arms smuggling by Palestinians today and similar efforts in the 1930s and 1940s by Jewish leaders in Palestine who were struggling against British occupiers. Those operations are regarded as heroic in Israel. The difference, Israelis argue, is that they are supposed to be in a peace...
...Many Palestinians fail to see what all the fuss over the guns is about. "I don't see why the Palestinians are being so defensive about it," says Ghassan Khatib, a leading Palestinian political analyst. "It's a war. Why is everybody entitled to defend themselves except us?" Certainly there are parallels between the arms smuggling by Palestinians today and similar efforts in the 1930s and 1940s by Jewish leaders in Palestine who were struggling against British occupiers. Those operations are regarded as heroic in Israel. The difference, Israelis argue, is that they are supposed to be in a peace...
...Khatib's younger brother Issam also lost his job with the onset of this intifadeh. Issam was a receptionist at the Oasis, a casino in the Palestinian town of Jericho, part owned by Arafat and frequented almost entirely by Israelis. When the violence started, Israelis were barred from traveling into Jericho. The Oasis closed. "I didn't look upon the people who came there as Jews or Muslims," says Issam, who earned what was for a Palestinian the princely sum of $1,000 a month plus tips. "They were all just gamblers to me." Even if calm were restored...