We looked out on the streets. There was no one there, so we got in the car and drove. It was only two kilometres away. At one of the intersections, I saw the same car coming from a different way. I couldn't believe we had been stupid enough to drive at night to get some tea or sugar! Fuck Abdullah! He had made a fuss, saying, "We want tea! We need tea!" and here was I now in this situation!
The guy in the car kept trying to pass us but I didn't give him a chance. He had his full headlights on me and was honking the horn. I told my brother, "Listen. When I stop the car, you just jump out, and don't forget to take the tea and sugar with you." Ha! We weren't going to forget the tea. Luckily, there was a traffic island in the middle of the road, separating the two lanes. I had floored the gas pedal and was driving like mad, but he was even more crazy than me! When we reached the point where the traffic island began, I took the left lane, to put the concrete divider between us. Our house was down the next road on the left, so I screached round the corner, stopped the car, and my brother lept out carrying the tea and sugar! I could hear the squealing of the brakes of the other car as he tried to stop and find a way after us.
I jumped out and we found ourselves running through the fields, carrying this tea and sugar! Our house was only 200 metres away. When we arrived back and I told them the story, they said to us, "No, no! Why were you scared? You gave him a reason to suspect you." But I wasn't in a mood that night to gamble my life, which was why I had decided to escape. At night we always took shifts to keep watch.
A different kind of licence plate, this one from New York State. Dan McGowan, its proud owner and the photographer, reported that, "Many Americans asked if 'INTIFADA' was like an 'enchilada' or some other Mexican food. Such questions were funny, but they also had a serious side, namely, it opened the opportunity for me to tell them of the humiliation and deprivation suffered by the Palestinian people, not only under the Israelis, but previously under the Jordanians and Egyptians as well." McGowan founded Deir Yassin Remembered. His current licence plate? "D YASSIN", of course.