The New York Times · 5 August 2001

CP-2001-051

A Scholarship And a Crisis

Palestinian students look to build a new society and ties with the United States. They may be Bill Clinton’s Middle East legacy.

BY PETER LAGERQUIST

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RAMALLAH, West Bank THE Palestinian uprising that erupted last fall put an abrupt end to Bill Clinton’s efforts to secure a foreign policy legacy — a lasting peace in the Middle East. Almost one year later, scores of Israelis and hundreds of Palestinians have been killed, with thousands wounded. … “I was participating in the first intifada.

For one year and a half I was wanted by the Israelis, living on the run. Sometimes I slept under buildings or trees. During the interrogation they tortured me — beatings, they hung me from a pole. I don’t like to speak about it, because it is very private, and it is the past.

But I remember in particular the ‘zinzana,’ a room the size of a box, so small you can’t lie down, where they put me for a week. “The prison was both good and bad, however. We ran a good education program, which helped me when I went to university.

Some of the books came from the Red Cross, others the prisoners smuggled in without the knowledge of the army. Some materials the prisoners themselves wrote. I read art, economics, psychology, sociology.

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