The terrorist group has exploited the kinds of changes I saw in visits over four decades to a West Bank village.
People wave the Palestinian flag during a protest in the West Bank city of Ramallah on Oct. 18. The Palestinian people are an abstraction to many Americans amid the horror of the Gaza war. They see a cruel terrorist face in Hamas. They see the faces of desperate, innocent victims in the thousands ofTo sketch a more personal portrait of Palestinian life, I can recount a chain of experiences that began more than 40 years ago, when I briefly lived in a Palestinian village in the West Bank.
My strongest memory of Halhul is falling asleep on the roof of Kashkeesh’s house. The men of the family slept there in the summer. As I lay under the blanket of stars, my host’s father, Abu Hammadeh, pointed to the town below and said, “This is beautiful.” Several minutes later, the old man repeated, “This is very beautiful.” And finally, as I was nearly asleep, he said loudly: “This is the best!”Abu Hammadeh left the house each morning at dawn with his horse to tend the family’s plot of grapes.
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