Down the winding road, I could spot the settlement of Gilo across the hill. An ugly settlement built after 1967 on confiscated Palestinian land. The Israeli military had erected cement blocks and some guys tell me that these are their positions, the locations they fire from at night. Behind me, a newly built villa stood in shambles. The Israelis had bombed the hell out of it.
Someone's new house is now no more.
All this because Palestinians resist the occupation, want it to end, and fire some shots that do very little damage to the settlement. A couple of Palestinian shots that are met with air and land shelling and bombing, and more death. Israel, the so-called only democracy in the Middle East, is the occupier of another people. Don't fret so. Sadness comes and goes.