“The municipality makes it impossible for the Maqdisians (Arab residents of al-Quds, aka Jerusalem) to obtain licenses. When we build, we are forced to face a difficult choice: either that the demolition will be carried out by their machines, and that costs us about half a million shekels, or we demolish it ourselves, which costs us the tears and sorrow that will never go away as long as the occupation settles in our land and takes away our rights.”