I'm basically putting this release on my blog, because we've already put the photos up in the photo gallery, and it may be a few days before this article appears on CPTnet.  So for those who would like a preview:

Below is a more detailed version of what happened Saturday night.  I went to bed wired from writing the release and various twitters.  I set  my alarm for 6:00 in order to get to Jerusalem for church by 9:00 the next morning (the journey used to take a half hour before the restrictions

Below is a more detailed version of what happened Saturday night.  I went to bed wired from writing the release and various twitters.  I set  my alarm for 6:00 in order to get to Jerusalem for church by 9:00 the next morning (the journey used to take a half hour before the restrictions

My first, angry draft of something that will eventually appear on CPTnet.  I am furious that soldiers thought that throwing sound bombs, normally used for riot control, into a market where people were closing up shops and heading home for the weekend, would be funny.  I assumed it would be settlers, but the people in the market I talked to would have had no reason for letting settlers off the hook. kk

Soldiers throw sound bombs in market as shopkeepers close up for evening; more than three injured

Well, thousands of Palestinians did not stream over the borders from Jordan, Lebanon, Gaza and Egypt.  They did not walk through the Bethlehem checkpoint into Jerusalem.  They did not do what the nonviolent activists, Palestinian and otherwise, dreamed they would do.  So that's something for the future.  I had a bad migraine last night, and was still trying to get over one today, when we got word that a peaceful demonstration was on it's way to Bab il Baladiye--the entrance to the Old City, our neighborhood.  Then my teammates who were accomp

Just went up on the roof after hearing two large explosions.  I didn't see any smoke, so it's probably not teargas--and I can usually smell the teargas ever from a long distance/  And the soldiers in the camp next to our apartment (formerly the central bus station) did not seem particularly agitated.  We have heard Palestinians in the street telling us that a Third Intifada is on the move--such as happened in Egypt and Tunisia.  I guess I'm hoping that it is Egypt and Tunisia that are being modeled and not Libya or Bahrein.

At-Tuwani, South Hebron Hills, West Bank