‘We all have (the same) hidden superpower’

Michael Friedrich recalls a journalist from German TV channel ZDF, who interviewed him and his wife Sabine while in the West Bank. The journalist (or at least his channel) took the usual ‘fair-minded’, rather mealy-mouthed approach of equating the two sides in the conflict – which he, Michael, doesn’t agree with. Still, he’s philosophical.

“It’s clear,” he tells me in his accented English, sitting beside Sabine at the Home for Cooperation in the buffer zone: “I’m an activist, he’s a journalist.