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

by Nathan Thrall

gave the newly created Palestinian Authority the symbolic role of issuing Israeli-approved ID cards. For West Bank residents, the PA chose to switch the orange cards to green, the old color for ex-prisoners. Abed thought it fitting; every Palestinian was a sort of prisoner, from the youngest child to the PA president, who also needed Israel’s permission to come and go.