The Green Prince Page #2

"Am I going to lie?"

"Are they going to beat me?"

"What is torture?"

An officer came inside.

He asked me, "Whogave you

the order tobuy the guns?

Whogave you the guns?"

I tried not to show

that I was afraid,

but deep in my heart

I was really terrified.

He had a "yellow smile"

on his face

that told me that "We know."

And he said,

"Your father was here,

and he was a tough guy.

Are you a tough guy?

Doyou wanna be tough

or doyou wanna talk?"

And I was like,

"I have nothing totalk about."

And he started tolaugh.

He told me, "Mosab..."

"Welcome

to the slaughterhouse."

At the beginning,

there was no sleeping,

not at night,

not during the day.

You're sitting 24 hours forever.

This is like the feeling,

that notion that you had,

that this is not gonna end.

Half of my body was numb,

and the other half was

in tremendous amount of pain,

night after night after night.

You start to lose

your sense of reality.

I start

toforget how I look like.

I could not think very well.

I am missing my mother a lot,

I'm thinkin' about her,

you know, how she's

handling the situation.

Usually, when

my father is arrested,

I am outside,

side by side with her,

helping her

with the responsibilities,

and everything,

sharing with her,

and now here I am,

for the first time,

in a place that I hoped

that she does not

even think that I was there.

I would look

at their psychological set

and try find their weak points,

their needs.

Maybe because I had

the degree in psychology,

it helped me a little bit.

Many times I felt,

when I tried torecruit someone,

I had a feeling

when I'm going torecruit him.

After a few weeks,

they brought me to the level,

to break me down.

Officer came and sat down,

and he asked me,

"Why doyou get yourself

in trouble like this?

You're still very young.

If you did something,

just why didn't you

tell those guys?

And you're trying

toplay the tough guy?

You know, that's

not gonna work for you.

That's just

gonna make it worse."

He told me

those guys had believed

that you did something big,

and if you didn't

tell them the truth,

they're gonna continue

till they extract

that information from you.

I told him,

"Listen, I bought guns,

but we never used the guns.

We are not connected

toany military cell.

I am sure that father

is very disappointed.

I promise you.

I'm not lying toyou."

He kinda believed what I said.

I had a killer instinct.

I knew it, you know.

I was sointoit.

I knew that it's going tohappen.

He asked me,

"Would you work for us?"

And I thought, "Is this guy

like out of his mind, or what?"

How can he convince

someone like me

now towork for Israel?

Simply, because of my father,

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