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Land flowing with Milk and Honey...
 
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Celebrating A Controversy 

Stamps (miniature sheet) celebrating the 3000th anniversary of Jerusalem.  To the Arabs, this merely commemorates the conquest of Jerusalem from the Canaanites by King David.  The Arabs claim that they are the descendants of the Canaanites.

Ancient Conflicts 

Statues of Salah-ad-Din and Richard the Lionheart outside Jaffa Gate. 
Ancient conflicts continue to this day. 
  
  

 
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Outsider 

An UN vehicle outside Tower of David.  Soon after this, we witnessed a bomb scare and an Arab shopkeeper shouting racist remarks on a Fijian UN official. 
 

Shouts of Agony & Hopes 

Palestinian souvenirs in an Arab hostel in the Old City : National symbols and posters of Arafat and the Palestinian National Authority 
 

  
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Fading Hopes 

Posters in an Arab hostel

Leader 

Banner of Yasser Arafat, President of the Palestinian Authority 
Hostel in Old City

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Via Dolorosa
 
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