A young Palestinian named Usama sends from working in the Cleft to support the resistance deed. His charge is to blow up integrates transporting. . .  Palestinian to Israel. Shocked to discover that many of his associate-countrywomen have adjusted to soul under military habit, Usama exchanges harsh words with his well-wishers and menage. Despite some uncertainty, he sets out to accomplish his charge. . . with disastrous consequences. Originally published in Jerusalem. Waste Thistles was the first Arab yarn to offer a sighting of social and personal relations under Israeli occupation. Featuring unsentimental portrayals of everyday soul, its deep truth, uncompromising evenhandedness and rich emotional nucleus plead elegantly for the element of natural selection in the face of suffering.   Production.