Dumb stunt - but the boy has hutzpah! (mixing Yiddish with an Arab-American boy).
Not the first kid to do something crazy; won't be the last.
Parents lived in the US 35 yrs and he's a native born American. And . . . now he's one that has seen more of the world than 90% of other Americans.
A very tough read, but it's real hard to find something to condemn when a 16 yr old does something gutsy.