Nabi Sela and the making of a pigtailed provocateur

...The child now better known as Shirley Temper, playing ball inches away from a cluster of armed soldiers of the IDF. The well-prepared Nabi Saleh children have an uncommon sense of what to fear and what not

Arnold/Frimet Roth..
This Ongoing War..
06 September '15..





There's a reason she has such stage presence.

The Tamimi clan child who featured in the staged clash ["02-Sep-15: Lights, action, camera, bite: Scenes from a cognitive war"] in a town a little north of Jerusalem ten days ago brings years of experience and practice to the role. But her determined parents get a large part of the credit, along with the PA education system via which she is acquiring life skills.

She is a mere ten year old moppet in the pictures below. They come from a YouTube video dated July 2, 2010. It was filmed in Nabi Saleh, the Palestinian Arab town which earned itself a New York Times Magazine cover two and a half years ago. We responded to that cover story here: "17-Mar-13: A little village in the hills, and the monsters it spawns".

The child now better known as Shirley Temper, playing ball inches away from a
cluster of armed soldiers of the IDF. The well-prepared Nabi Saleh children 
have an uncommon sense of what to fear and what not 
[Source: A Nabi Saleh video dated July 2, 2010 (at 7m 01s)

Screaming on demand as the cameras roll to capture the "clash" as the armed 
IDF servicemen stand by impassively. Syria this certainly isn't.
Source: A Nabi Saleh video dated July 2, 2010 (at 2 m 20 s)

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