Wednesday, October 13, 2004
Respone to the response
What ever happened to love thy enemy?
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Message: 14
Date: Wed, 13 Oct 2004 00:19:47 -0700 (PDT)
From: Richard xxxxxxx
Subject: Re: Can you provide any insights into this ...
Hi Athol,
I lived in Jerusalem for over 30 years, 14 of them in the Old City. I
never saw spitting and it never happened to me. Perhaps you walked in
sections I didn't walk in. In any case, its not the kind of thing a person
is likely to see very often, if at all. Even the newspaper didn't make all
that much of it and attributed it to instigaters.
There is alot of tension in the Old City. It has great holiness and, like
most things that have great holiness, attracts alot of ,
well...characters. And the greater the light, the greater the darkness. So
there's alot that can happen there which is unlikely to happen elsewhere.
Just think of your post of scandalous behavior at the Church of the Holy
Sepulchre.
A few years ago, I was standing in the vestibule of a Jewish hostel near
the juncture of Arrart and St. James when all of a sudden a Jewish guy
called me out to join him. Just up the block, a bunch of black robed
Armenian seminarians had started beating up a yeshiva student. They
dispersed as we got there.
There's alot going on in the Old City.
Could we just drop this?
All the best,
Richard
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Message: 14
Date: Wed, 13 Oct 2004 00:19:47 -0700 (PDT)
From: Richard xxxxxxx
Subject: Re: Can you provide any insights into this ...
Hi Athol,
I lived in Jerusalem for over 30 years, 14 of them in the Old City. I
never saw spitting and it never happened to me. Perhaps you walked in
sections I didn't walk in. In any case, its not the kind of thing a person
is likely to see very often, if at all. Even the newspaper didn't make all
that much of it and attributed it to instigaters.
There is alot of tension in the Old City. It has great holiness and, like
most things that have great holiness, attracts alot of ,
well...characters. And the greater the light, the greater the darkness. So
there's alot that can happen there which is unlikely to happen elsewhere.
Just think of your post of scandalous behavior at the Church of the Holy
Sepulchre.
A few years ago, I was standing in the vestibule of a Jewish hostel near
the juncture of Arrart and St. James when all of a sudden a Jewish guy
called me out to join him. Just up the block, a bunch of black robed
Armenian seminarians had started beating up a yeshiva student. They
dispersed as we got there.
There's alot going on in the Old City.
Could we just drop this?
All the best,
Richard
