A coffee/tea shop we stopped by, which is filled with mostly elderly men who get together for a drink, a smoke, and a game of cards.
Having a good time.
This guy is very busy, as he makes and pours tea after tea and coffee after coffee. He does a great job and ensures everyone's glass is full.
My good friend Laila, who runs a shop in the Souq that sells keffiyehs and other articles of clothing.
Laila invited us as always to her shop, and lamented about the brutality she saw on YouTube videos of ISIS and Bassar Al-Assad's military forces slaughtering civilians.
Then, surprisingly for me, she began to also express her opposition to the bombings and knife attacks on Israelis that had been carried out by some armed Palestinian groups.
She condemned the stabbing of an Israeli teenager who was in a settlement, even though the settlement she is in, like other settlements, takes away her people's land and water and is part of a system that makes them second-class citizens in their own land.
She said she did not feel bad about attacks against Israeli soldiers, but civilians are different. She said she has nothing against Jews, she wants the occupation to end.
This is coming from a person whose son had been arrested and tortured in the past, and not for any armed attacks on Israelis but simply looking for work. A person who sees armed soldiers and settlers march through her market every Saturday, and in the past much more often. A person who has seen so much suffering and humiliations of her people.
For people who buy into the line "Palestinians are terrorists", I really hope they read this.
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