Driving questions again

Mom, don't read this post.

So now the question is which way to drive. There have been shootings on West Bank roads the past three nights. So it seems that if I drive to or from Jerusalem at night, I'd best be taking the other route, a scary windy road through a deserted forest. Gee, that sounds great. But what about the days? Alen drives the forest route all the time. I'm not so used to it, but took it yesterday. It got me to work about 10 minutes later, through an area I'm completely unfamiliar with. I don't like the sense that my part of Jerusalem (Baka, Talpiot, Gilo) will be cut off from me if I drive the other way. But on the other hand...

I can't change whether people are shooting on the roads, I can't change what's going on in Washington (the proximate cause of the shootings) but I can change my driving route. So I may be saying goodbye to checkpoints for awhile. Husan, Wadi Fukin, Beit Lehem and the separation wall will be hidden from my sight, as they are from so many Israelis.

What about my friends in Tekoa, Efrat and Kiryat Arba? They can't choose the safe road.

It's complicated.