The International Solidarity Movement continues to recruit stupid, deluded young Westerners to go to the disputed territories of Judea and Samaria, as human shields for terrorists and smugglers: Louisville duo hopes to end Israeli occupation. (Hat tip: Channy.)

Sharon Wallace, 44, and Mateo Bernal, 22, left Friday and plan to participate in an international effort during their two-week stay.

Wallace, who traveled to the West Bank on a similar mission last year, said she’s going back because “once you end injustice of the occupation, the violence ends.”

“The Palestinian people feel they are ignored and denied a voice, and our being there brings hope,” she said.

Wallace said each participant is given training in nonviolent opposition for two days upon arrival, with a focus on role plays and the philosophy of nonviolence for dealing with settlers or soldiers.

Bernal, a senior history major at the University of Louisville, said he wants to help the Palestinians and promote their cause.

“I feel that there will be no end to terrorism unless there’s a just solution in Palestine, and it’s going to have to be brokered, in part, by the United States,” he said.

Bernal is a history major. Unbelievable. But the study of history is so degraded in the US, he’s probably read nothing but Howard Zinn and Noam Chomsky and Das Kapital.

This AP release also quotes someone named “Ibrahim Imam” with no information about who he is:

Ibrahim Imam will keep in contact with Wallace and Bernal during their stay. He said he hopes their presence, as part of the International Solidarity Movement, will increase awareness of what’s going on in that part of the world.

“The Palestinians have no names, no faces, no identity, and this society forgets they exist and do not treat them like people who are being killed,” he said.

So here’s a Palestinian with a name and a face.

Yesterday, Bassem al-Takrouri, a 19-year old engineering student from Hebron, disguised himself as a religious Jew. Hidden underneath his disguise was a vest containing high explosives packed with nails, screws, and chunks of metal. He boarded a bus in Jerusalem with evil and hate in his shriveled soul, and committed a horrific act of calculated mass murder—supported by his family, his friends, and his fellow students at Hebron Technical College.

The assessment is based on Palestinian reports that the family of Bassem Jamal Takrouri, an engineering student from Hebron technological college, opened a mourning tent in front of their home in Hebron Sunday.

The family is a neighbor of Fuad Qawashmeh, 21, a Hamas supporter believed responsible for the suicide attack in Hebron on Saturday in which a Kiryat Arba couple was killed.

Here’s the face of a Palestinian, in a photograph presented to the media by his family with pride.