ABSTRACT

Hani was ready to race. The 17-year-old had traveled to Ramallah the previous day from his village near Jericho and stayed overnight in the home of his cousins. Now, at nine o’clock in the morning, he found himself on a school soccer field with over 300 other Palestinian youth, as well as several dozen Israeli and international supporters, all sporting bright, numbered t-shirts and sitting astride bicycles.