He drives on, scowls, and indicates an adobe house with another flag drooping in the sun from a rooftop.
Beside the Palestinian flag is a plain white cotton square on a pole, as if the occupant of the house is surrendering to someone, and James switches cameras so he can zoom his lens toward the house as Rory asks, "What's that for, Sol?"
Sol glances disdainfully at both lengths of cloth. "The white flag means that the Arab has a daughter of twelve years to sell."
"To sell?" James gives a spasm of shock even as he keeps filming.
Sol nods with disgust. "Beside his national flag, the Arab is hanging out his white flag. He makes the competition to see who brings the most cows or sheep to exchange for the daughter. He becomes a rich man for a few months because of the men who come to bid for the twelve-year-old girl, and he don't have to work for maybe a year until his next daughter is old enough to be for sale."
