“It was him!” Yousef said. “I saw the scar! He’s alive and he’s a Yahoodi they call David!” My brother had seen a Jewish soldier with a scar identical to the one that had marked the face of our brother Ismael, who had vanished seven years before I was born.
The theft of the infant is metaphorical for the Jewish theft of Palestine. Giving him a false name is a synonym for the lie that calls the country 'Israel'
