Crispy day

This morning at Safra Square

The weather has gone bright and sunny, the air very crispy. People have gone outdoors again to enjoy the weather. Military presence was heightened as muslims crowds came to the Mosque to pray. Well, we won't expect a fiasco like Egypt saw yesterday during the football match. Absolutely appalling. It's the talk of town ... how could it possibly happen? Eveyrone is talking of a conspiracy.

And Friday 3rd saw a series of amazing events in the arab villages:  What a nightmare for the poor Israeli soldier who was left behind in an arab village after a night raid. The real heroes are the two arab village elders who acted honorably by saving his life and escorting him to the security wall back to his platoon. That was how the two men who had their village raided acted to their enemy who raided them.  http://www.haaretz.com/news/diplomacy-defense/idf-suspends-officer-after-soldier-left-behind-in-west-bank-1.410938  But of course you'll never find any news report thanking them let alone praising them. Meantime a french activist was wounded by Israeli soldiers during a West Bank demonstration in an arab village.  http://www.haaretz.com/news/diplomacy-defense/report-french-woman-wounded-by-idf-gas-grenade-in-west-bank-demonstration-1.410945  And an entire arab village has gone on hunger strike to raise world awareness of their plight being surrounded by Jewish settlements.  http://www.haaretz.com/weekend/week-s-end/twilight-zone-this-is-no-life-1.410809

I have this urge to visit Samaria again ... it's been a long time since I was there - partly due to the blockade and security wall. Jacob's well, Tomb of John the Baptist, ancient Shechem .... perhaps I might just do that one of these days.