"Why don’t they ever ask me, ‘Why is there an occupation?’ ”" Ahed Tamimi

“I don’t like how we are always being asked, ‘Why do you go to the streets, why do you protest, why do you resist?’ Why don’t they ever ask me, ‘Why is there an occupation?’ ”

Ahed Tamimi, the new face of Palestinian protest

"The activist on the occupation, balancing teenage life and politics — and the slap that landed her in prison Nine months ago, before the slap across an Israeli soldier’s cheek that changed her life, the world knew little of Ahed Tamimi. Now the 17-year-old is a cause célèbre, her full head of curly blonde hair recognisable on “Free Ahed” posters from Toronto to Tokyo. In the Palestinian territories, she is revered. In Israel, she is reviled. And at the Reef Cafe in Ramallah, she gets the best table in the house"... READ MORE https://www.ft.com/content/e10befa4-b75f-11e8-b3ef-799c8613f4a1