Almost weekend

Spring figs budding
but inedible

Tonight is the last night of the Old City music festival. I guess it will be super packed with visitors. A prof wants to go out after dinner for an ice cream and asked me along .... but I'm not too keen. I'm exhausted from a whole day's work and lessons. Am too tired to walk uphill 2km for an ice cream. Sleep is the best alternative.

I just left the convent of M.Teresa's sisters and was thinking of walking down to East Jerusalem to buy some dinner at Arab Fried Chicken but decided not to. So turning to the right to get home I aw police blocking off the road. The rightwing yeshiva students must be marching through the Muslim Quarter tonight ... they do it once a month under heavy police protection. Very noisy, rowdy and provocative ... vandalising non-Jewish property along the way but no one is ever caught or charged. All our roads are blocked, residents must stay indoors and only these jewish students are allowed to march through our streets. I rushed home as soon as I could before the streets are totally closed. The marchers would harass and spit at christians ... and we cannot protest as the law protects only Israelis. Right now as I right, the marchers are passing under my window ... blaring loud music, singing at the top of their voices ... and stopping in front of the 4 churches along Via Dolorosa to spit and harass with noise pollution. Well the important thing is I'm home save while the marchers are outside causing disruptions.

Several days back I passed by a fig tree in bud. There were lots of immature figs and these are inedible. They will fall in a few weeks but this guarantees that in August there will be sweet luscious summer fruit. I look forward to that.

Though I love summer a lot more than winter, yesterday we received bad news. Due to global warming, summers will be twice as hot and lasts twice as long. In other words, no more winters. Now that is a bit too much. I won't be able to survive 8 months of summer. I need to move out.  http://www.jpost.com/HEALTH-SCIENCE/Study-Global-warming-to-nearly-double-length-of-Israeli-summer-by-2100-545093

And in a shocking (for the rest of us) move, the lawyers of soldiers charged for killing an unarmed 16 yr old arab argued that their clients be freed because soldiers are rarely charged for such acts. https://www.haaretz.com/israel-news/israel-weighing-plea-deal-for-soldiers-who-killed-palestinian-1.5905960