The strange world in which we live
Fatah “activists” (Ha’aretz’s word, not mine) kidnapped someone named Benjamin Bright-Fishbein, possibly from a coffeeshop in Nablus. Once they realized he was an American and not an Israeli, Brigit-Fishbein was handed over to the IDF. Brigit-Fishbein had been studying at Hebrew University and was in Nablus as a tourist. Now I say we live in a strange world because the Ha’aretz story says this:
An individual with the same name is known to be a student attending Brown University in the United States. His name also appears as a contributor to the web site of the university’s student newspaper.
Not only is an individual with the same name attending Brown, he’s on facebook. And the weird picture (sorry, I don’t want to get in trouble for reposting it) makes it pretty clear, at least to me that this is the same person. It depicts him smiling next to some graffiti on a stone wall of a Jewish star and the letters “Fuk”. Whatever that means.
Good to find out he’s safe. Needless to say, I’ve friended him on facebook. We’ll see what happens once he gets out of IDF custody.
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