A Palestinian man from the West Bank city of Qalqiliya is treated at a local hospital after settlers from the Gilad settlement attacked him in his home. (Khaleel Reash, Maan Images)

Abdul Saafan, his wife and 51 children and grandchildren live on a fault line of the Israeli-Palestinian conflict, squeezed into two modest homes smack up against a Jewish settlement in the West Bank city of Hebron. Six months ago an enraged settler wounded Abdul Saafan and his son Hosni, who were unarmed, in a shooting near their home.

Today the family welcomed a powerful American guest from afar to hear how he might relieve their fear.

Live from Cairo on the Al Jazeera television channel, President Obama spoke to three generations of Saafan males sipping tea and seated around a large TV screen in a sweltering bedroom where 17 family members sleep.

They were an unsparing audience.

They did not join in the applause by the crowd at Cairo University. Instead, Abdul Saafan engaged in mild heckling when Obama admonished Palestinians to abandon violence.

"Where is the Palestinian violence?" scoffed the 69-year-old patriarch, minimizing years of rocket attacks against Israel from the Gaza Strip. "What violence?"

Raed Saafan, 16, left the room as the American leader was speaking of his youth in Indonesia and respect for Islam. Raed returned later, explaining that he had to chase down a stray sheep. But he walked out again before the speech ended.

"Obama is trying to trick us," the teenager said dismissively. "He wants to pretend he is on our side while allowing the Israelis to get their way with us.

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