A Day in the Life of Abed Salama: Anatomy of a Jerusalem Tragedy

by Nathan Thrall

Ambulance sirens screamed over the cries of the wounded. Friends and family searched through the detritus, shouting out names of the missing.

“You’ve turned our autonomy into a prison for us,” the lead Palestinian negotiator,

“It doesn’t matter if you’re on the left or the right. The fact that someone’s celebrating people’s death requires us to stop for a moment and ask, How the hell did we get here?”