ABSTRACT
Mustafa had been an active member in Islamic Jihad for years, fully supporting the use of all means to resist the occupation. However, in 2002, while waiting at a checkpoint, he saw a news broadcast on the soldiers’ television about a suicide bombing in Tel Aviv in which teenagers were killed, and it “moved something” in him (author interview 2007), prompting him to re-examine his own focus on armed resistance and consciously confront the civilian suffering on both sides of the conflict. As Mustafa remembered, “One image that really stuck with me was a man carrying the bodies of four children, and they were all dead. It is the same for us, when Palestinian kids are killed. So I found myself wondering, what do we get from this blood?” (author interview 2007).
