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.
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…
