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| Full moon over the Mt. of Olives |
A night of clashes and running battles in the Muslim Quarter. The rest of the City was very quiet though the Jewish Quarter was awake all night with the Sukkoth celebrations. Way into 3am I could hear the Jews at the Wailing Wall blowing the shofar (ram's horn). Arab youths barricaded themselves inside the Al Aqsa compound, vehement against the entry of Jews into the area.Inevitably clashes occurred and this morning the Israeli police did a rare thing by actually raiding the Mosque compound to capture the muslim youths or trap them inside the mosque itself. The fighting spilt out into the streets where I live. At 7am there were huge explosions behind our house; arabs were shooting fireworks and throwing stones while police fired tear gas and stun grenades. It wafted into my room and I couldn't breathe. Decided to move out to my workplace up north of the City to avoid anymore tear gas. My asthma is bad enough.
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The little dot of light in the middle is the "diamond" before the moon went out totally |
It was the autumn moon and it looked enormous. But at 4am the total eclipse began. I watched it for an hour till it virtually disappeared ... with the final "diamond on the ring" moment. Then the eclipsed moon glowed blood red in the earth's shadow. It was amazing. The next a full supermoon is eclipsed totally will be in 2033. I'd probably not be around so it was good I caught it last night. Took many photos of it but they didn't turn out good.
There's something seriously wrong because despite my daily medication, the asthma has worsened these last 3 days. It's like I'm not taking any medicine at all. Yesterday I blacked out because I couldn't breathe. Lucky I was next to my bed so I didn't hit my head on the ground again like the last time. Maybe it's time to see the specialist again.