The first picture here was taken across the street from the Jerusalem Center, looking East. It is the Judean Wilderness where Christ fasted for 40 days, John the Baptist roamed and ate locusts, and David lived as a young boy. Off in the distance you can see the Dead Sea and Jordan. This week we went on a small tour of the separation wall which divides the West Bank from the rest of Israel. To the left of the first picture you can see a big wall the winds up the hill...thats the wall. At other points the wall goes right through the city like in the other two pictures. Before 2003, kids would go to school on one side of the street
and live on the other. In 2003 they put a wall down the street and now they can't get across. Crossing the border is incredibly difficult for Palestinians and Israeli's alike. Sometimes it takes up to two weeks to get permission. As an American it was easy to cross, but it's still kind of lame. Nobody here likes it. Even Israeli's are getting annoyed by it. There is overwhelming support for a two state solution....and most people believe it will be in the works within the next 15 months. It will be interesting to see what happens.
The first picture here was taken across the street from the Jerusalem Center, looking East. It is the Judean Wilderness where Christ fasted for 40 days, John the Baptist roamed and ate locusts, and David lived as a young boy. Off in the distance you can see the Dead Sea and Jordan. This week we went on a small tour of the separation wall which divides the West Bank from the rest of Israel. To the left of the first picture you can see a big wall the winds up the hill...thats the wall. At other points the wall goes right through the city like in the other two pictures. Before 2003, kids would go to school on one side of the street 
and live on the other. In 2003 they put a wall down the street and now they can't get across. Crossing the border is incredibly difficult for Palestinians and Israeli's alike. Sometimes it takes up to two weeks to get permission. As an American it was easy to cross, but it's still kind of lame. Nobody here likes it. Even Israeli's are getting annoyed by it. There is overwhelming support for a two state solution....and most people believe it will be in the works within the next 15 months. It will be interesting to see what happens.
1 comment:
That's crazy. That wall didn't exist when I was there. Weirdos.
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