I call it sort of shotgun flexibility.

You've got non lethal shotgun rounds that contain rubber pellets instead of the traditional metal ones.

But I'll tell you, there is no adventure more harrowing than riding shotgun with Marge Deton.

Periodically, they remove a cylinder of ice, like gamekeepers popping a spent shotgun shell from the barrel of a drill.

One quote from a Palestinian TV production team member stayed with me This is a shotgun wedding, he explained when he was advocating for a Palestine only Sesame Street. And we want a divorce.

Doom, a popular violent videogame, was a favorite of Eric Harris and Dylan Klebold, the teenage Columbine High School murderers. In a chilling videotape they made before the massacre, Harris says It's going to be like fucking Doom .That fucking shotgun he kisses his gun is straight out of Doom!

But how often does the outside world even the best intentioned donors and program creators reach out to Palestinian civil society on its own terms, without insisting on that shotgun wedding? How often are resources invested in Palestinian films, books, newspapers, high schools, dance troupes, teachers, etc. without requiring the recipients to make friendly gestures to Israel?