Heartbreaking, powerful words via Sue Beardon from #Israel. "Last night I shared a moment with an Israeli that will stay with me for the rest of my life. I stayed in an Airbnb in Haifa, Israel with a Zen Buddhist couple. I sat with one of the hosts on arrival and we chatted for a while. Usually I am cautious about sharing what I'm doing here when I meet Israelis, but we had made a connection so I found myself being open with him. We began to discuss his mandatory military service, which he had served some years before. He told me how the army tried to disrupt the lives of #Palestinians everyday, and how he used to receive calls from the General instructing him to block certain roads at random times to delay or stop Palestinians going about their day. There was no logic to this he pondered, "the General wasn't even in the area. He had no idea about the reality on the ground." He went on to recall a time when he was sent to a #Palestinian village, where the...