For Palestinian Police, Much to Lose if Israel Annexes West Bank Land

What wounded Maj. Zahi Jamhour most, he said, wasn’t that the Palestinians he had sworn to protect threw stones at him. It wasn’t even the bullet shot through his leg by an Israeli soldier — a mistake, he was told later — after his Palestinian police squad had risked their lives to rescue a Jew from an attempted lynching.

No, what stings to this day is how the Arab doctors and nurses at an East Jerusalem hospital reacted when he told them how he had been shot.

“They laughed at me,” Major Jamhour, 50, recalled ruefully. “They said, ‘You deserved it.’”

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