The Girl from Scorpions Pass: Surviving a Desert Massacre Was Just the Beginning

In the desert at Scorpions Pass, a girl sits by a bullet-riddled bus too frightened to cry.

The violated body of her mother lies a few yards away. Her father, the bus driver, sits slumped over the wheel. His blood has mingled with that of twelve dead passengers. She can't see her older brother.

In a few hours an army patrol stumbles onto the scene of what the morning newspapers will call The Massacre at Scorpion's Pass. In Israel in 1954 a five year old girl who had witnessed her family and...