Amid high-level diplomacy and discourse about a widening conflict in the Middle East, it’s easy to overlook the very real people on the ground, the ones trying to navigate a fight they have little true voice in. Today we talk with some of them – both Israelis and Palestinians waiting and watching warily as they shop for Shabbat dinners in Tel Aviv and move ahead with wedding plans in the West Bank. Like those we talked to in Gaza earlier this year, they are doing their best to live as normally as possible in distressingly abnormal times.