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Ahed Tamimi Is a Threat to Israel’s Public Diplomacy, Not Its Security

Ahed Tamimi poses a threat to Israel not because she is a danger to Israel’s national security, as the government insists, but rather because she threatens to undermine Israel’s public image.

Feb 09, 2018
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by Josepha Wessels

On Tuesday, December 19, the Israeli army arrested sixteen-year old Ahed Tamimi for slapping two Israeli Defense Forces (IDF) soldiers in the occupied West Bank, after a video of the encounter went viral. Ahed, a young, blonde girl from the West Bank village of Nabi Saleh, is just one of approximately 400 Palestinian children currently…

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