Gilo checkpoint blocks the way to and from Bethlehem - a truly bizarre advert for Israeli tourism mourning, near Jenin, of the latest suicide bomber. He talked to his mother, who said that he had been working illegally in Israel for the previous fortnight. He came home, told his mother he had to get up early, and within three hours was in Tel Aviv detonating his bomb. It is possible that the Israeli mafia helped him, as they often do for illegal workers. The funeral was really low key, it is a tiny village, and the Hamas speaker only talked of conciliation.
Went to Women in Black demo in West Jerusalem (Every Friday 1pm-2pm) A bit bigger than when I was last here, photos available. The women tell me that the hostility is getting less, and more support.
I still have great difficulty weighing up the politics of many of the people in the peace movement. I spoke to one woman extensively, she has been demonstrating here for 18 years. She considered, about the Gaza shelling, that every country has a right to defend its borders, and she was talking about Israel. She also considered Hamas was a Terrorist organisation. She hasn't been in the West Bank for 24 years, and considers that Hamas had threatened everybody in to voting for it.
Still she said if she could get out of Israel she would consider it, she also considered that two of the coalition parties were 'nazis'. So I end on a note of confusion in West Jerusalem.