Children of the Stone
Elaine Miles reflects on a book on young Palestinians
‘Children of the Stone’ is a phrase used to describe the young Palestinians of the First Intifada (1987-93) who threw stones at the Israeli invaders of their country because they could think of no other way of defending their land after the invasion of 1987. Sandy Tolan, in his book of the same name, has taken immense trouble to research the facts of the failed negotiations between the Israelis and the Palestinians since the 1987 invasion, and more recently the effects of the Oslo Agreement of 1993. He tells the story of a young Palestinian boy living with the results: the security ‘wall’, the checkpoints and the demolition of Palestinian houses.
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