Fantastic story! It's so refreshing to read this kind of story, which highlights the human angle and puts names and faces on both sides of the Israeli-Palestinian "conflict" ( i hate using that generic term). Your blog should be required reading to all the naysayers, haters and rhetoricists out there. If only for the paragraph about the Israeli and the Palestinian conducting a casual conversation in the background of Fatah's so called "show of force". Sometimes, i do wish the mainstream media showed us more of this "wide angled view" of the background (to use the photograph terminology both literally and figuratively).