There is a frightening rise of violence against Christians by fanatic militant Jews especially in Jerusalem. http://www.haaretz.com/print-edition/news/vatican-asks-peres-to-help-find-price-tag-culprits-1.414975 and Christians are personally targeted http://www.haaretz.com/print-edition/news/jerusalem-christians-are-latest-targets-in-recent-spate-of-price-tag-attacks-1.413848 Christian bashing around the world is escalating ... and all was predicted in the Book of Apocalypse.
Today there is a significant presence of soldiers and police in and out of the Old City. Don't know why ... they control the traffic ... as if looking for someone. The arabs along the street are saying something bad is about to happen.
Despite all the talk of bad news ... yesterday I saw a sign of hope - an ear of wheat, fully developed and waving with the wind, grwoing out from a crack in the wall 15 metres above an abandoned excavation site. It's this instinctively primeval force to live in spite of all difficulties and odds that characterise the people in this land - be they arabs and jews. Everyone struggles to live ... everyone deserves the chance to survive. So stop bashing Christians!