Palestine, back to business?

Ramallah appears to be back to normal today. People are back on the street, flags are back up, shops are open. After 3 days of mourning for the victims of the Gaza Holocaust (see previous post for the name), I guess we had to get back to our lives...
Supermarkets are open, those large yellow vans that operate as shared taxis are back to roaming the streets like mad, people are eating ice-cream at Rukab's. As they always have.
I don't know how they can do it - but I guess it's the kind of resilience that I hope I will never have to develop.

And, it may seem back to normal on the surface or at least in parts of the country, but it's unlikely to be 'back to usual' for the, what, mere 120 people murdered, the 300 injured, their families who will no longer have their mother, their father, their child?

Here's the kick though -- it's not over. Whatever supposed withdrawal is announced, operations, incursions, and air strikes continue in the Gaza Strip. At work I receive a daily Security Briefing about all security-related events that occurred the day before, and there isn't one day where there are no extra dead people.

And I hate the fact that the Israelis are going to get away with it.
Again.