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Street leading from the New Gate to the Knight's Palace of the
Latin Patrarchate. |
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View looking northwest from the steps leading down from a plaza in
the Jewish quarter above the Western Wall. The building in the
center is the Dome of the Rock on the Temple Mount, above the Western
Wall. |
Painting in the Latin Patriarchate of a princess knighting a soldier. |
Palestinian home on the street below the Old City that leads up the
hill on the north side of the Mount of Olives. Hebrew University
is in the background on Mt Scopus, just to the North of the Augusta
Victoria hospital and guesthouse, where I am staying. |
Hebrew University looking from the northwest corner of the Old City,
before walking down into the valley. The road crossing the photo
from left to right is the road that I walk up reach the top of Mt
Scopus, where the August Victoria guesthouse is located about two blocks
South of Hebrew University. Just below Hebrew University is the
four-lane highway (on top of the retaining wall) that carries the
traffic to the University.
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A view of Palestinian housing and a hotel on the street leading up
the hill to Augusta Victoria hospital and guesthouse. |
| Looking down the
hill I've just walked up, at the north side of the greater city of
Jerusalem. Notice the warning sign in three languages. Buses
and vans travel this street constantly transporting people into and out
of the city. From the top of this hill to the Damascus Gate just
outside the north side of the Old City is about a fifteen minute walk.
As I descend into the Kidron Valley at the bottom of this hill, I can
see the Mount of Olives to the left. The road goes all the way
into the Valley, and then rises sharply before coming to the northeast
corner of the walls surrounding the Old City. |
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Hebrew University
as seen from the northwest side. I was stopped twice by security
personnel as I walked around the University, because I was taking
pictures. But I passed through security at one of the entrances
and visited the humanities library, which had open stacks with many
titles in English in literature. Palestinians live in the valleys
below the University. Jewish Israelis call these
"Palestinians" Arab Israelis, but many of these Arab Israelis
have chosen to call themselves Palestinians. They have citizenship
and elect a few members to the Knesset, but suffer from economic and
legal discrimination. |
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security barrier at Abu Dis. The gas station and convenience store
was alongside the road that led from Jerusalem, which is to the right,
into Abu Dis, which is just behind the wall, to the left. You can
see the minaret of the city mosque in the middle of the picture.
The dirt road built alongside the wall, on the Jerusalem side, leads to
open land where a new settlement is being built. The view in this
photo is looking south. |
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This is a view at
the top of the hill looking North. We walked up the winding road
on the right of the wall, and now are going down against to the gas
station and convenience store. From this perspective you can see
some of the buildings of Abu Dis, which are behind the wall and very
close to it. The two persons walking down the road are Ecumenical
Accompaniers from the United Kingdom, who were showing me around on my
first day of orientation to greater Jerusalem. |
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over the crest of the hill, looking southeast. The open land to
the right where the trees are is in Jerusalem, and this is where the new
settlement is to be constructed. You can see the road that heads
away from the wall to the right, allowing access to the open land.
Abu Dis is on the other side of the wall. This photo is taken from
in front of a house, where we were spontaneously offered tea by three
women and two young girls enjoying the sun on their veranda, which faces
the wall and thus offers them the view seen in the photo to the right. |
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This is one of the
Palestinian women who offered us tea. She is sitting with the two
young girls that the women were watching. These women and children
are Palestinians in Jerusalem, who must go around the wall to get to the
shops in Abu Dis. We walked north around the barrier, and it took
almost half an hour to reach the other side of the wall about a block
(directly through the wall) from where we were so kindly given tea by
this lady and her friends. One of the women spoke a little
English. She pointed to the wall, lifted her hands in despair, and
said, "What can we do?" |
| A photo from south
of Jerusalem. The young Dane facing off with a large billy goat
(Gruff?) is a journalist student, who is volunteering with the
Ecumenical Accompaniment program while he does a video project. We
were walking to visit two other members of our program when we came upon
this man herding a flock of goats. You can see from the length of
the shadows that it is late in the afternoon. The goat herder was
bringing his flock in from the fields, after grazing the all day. |
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