Ahed Tamimi was finally released after spending eight months in an Israeli prison for slapping and kicking an Israeli soldier.  The video of the incident became world-famous, and she became even more of a media star than she already was. With her light brown (now a dirty blonde?!) hair and blue eyes, she is hardly phenotypically representative of the average Palestinian.  I have seen one ugly remark about who her father was, but let's dismiss that out of hand. Her father, Bassem Tamimi, has blue-gray eyes, and were it not for his strong Arab accent, he could easily pass for an aging English rocker.  One could easily imagine him saying how he had played backup bass guitar for the Spice Girls when they were starting out in the 1990s. It is clear that some European blood has infiltrated the Tamimi clan at some point in history, whether by the Crusaders or by some Balkan Bushak immigrants.  A lot of Ahed's relatives...(Read Full Article)