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The Holy Land Pt1.

Ya, two days ago we had one of my dads friends who works in Jerusalem give us a tour of the old city and we had some great discussions.  He is also an academic so he spoke great English and was very knowledgeable about politics in Israel since before he was a kid.  We talked about Obama and how in his mind Obama messed up big time when he said that Israel should stop building settlements in North Jerusalem.  He said every Israeli basically supports stopping settlements everywhere in Palestinian territories outside the city but not that close to the city.  
It was interesting to hear these topics from his side of the perspective, but his wife was much more sympathetic towards the Arabs and their oppressed current state.
From what I can tell that city has way to many "crazy" "religious" people fighting over shrines, and at any moment that stick of dynamite could just explode.
My father actually recommended that we as Christians should just sell all of our shares of old city and give the money to the poor, mainly since we have no idea where any events in Christs day really occurred and whats happening is people are worshiping the ground, relics, shrines, to Christ instead of worshiping him in his risen state. But that is another topic for another day.


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I wrote this little selection in about 3 min, so its just because I havn't got much time while on this trip for this writing, I am mainly keeping accounts of the events and writing for my own personal memory.


All is Great in Tiberius, Israel
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