Wake up, find the breakfast, wait around, talk and talk, head to lunch, negotiate leaving the Ecce Homo for lunch, eat the $4 hummus, come back, explore the space below, throw 5 shekels through a window, back to the computer. Sabbath is good.
But I feel isolated now - somehow separated by my Westernness into this other category of tourist. I and my countrymen are newcomers to Jerusalem, historically and presently - I will leave this place treasuring my memories, but knowing that this place cannot even be my home. I am a stranger here.
Iran War Live Updates: Strait of Hormuz Largely Closed as Iran Says Parties
Are Far From Final Deal
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Iran reversed course on reopening the strategic waterway, warning it would
block transit as long as the U.S. blockade of ships from Iranian ports
remained ...
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