 I am against these actions, honestly. Why should a mother be deprived of her son, whether on the Palestinian side or the Israeli side? Why can't we live in peace? Why doesn't the cycle of violence end? After a month in the detention center, Nassar spent six months in a desert prison. He says he was kept incommunicado with the outside world, living in tents with about 150 other Palestinian detainees. In his interview with NPR, he referred to the American psychologist Abraham Maslow as