Jerusalem Blog 5 - Blogs that I could have written today
- The city with 365 days of Christmas
About a visit to Bethlehem and the overcrowded Nativity Church that allegedly is build on the place where Christ was born.
- Withdrawal symptoms
On how 48 hours without a falafel feels like having gone cold turkey in this land.
- Calvinist-Lutheran skepticism (part 2)
About the fact that visiting the birthplace of Jesus didn't do too much to me.
- An Arab Palestinian Catholic Christian priest
About how the use of certain words in the Holy Land is very problematic, as so many wrong associations arise. No, not all Arabs all Muslims and yes, I know that already since reading 'Het zijn net mensen' and yes, it's still easy to forget the Christians in this country. Or the fact that there's 13 different recognised communities of Christians.
- More questions than answers
On how the entire group seems to realise that how longer one stays in the Holy Land, the more complicated the picture becomes and the less one gets it.
- Bizarre Bazaars
About buying stuff on a market in this country and on how the non-touristic market were we drank wine was a lot more fun (and cheaper) than the super touristic one in the Old City.
- Tony and Ajeer
About meeting two Palestinian Christian students, whose lifes were so much different from mine, while at the same time also similar to a certain degree.
- The conflict might never be solved
About the conflict. And that it might never be solved.
But I am tired and so I'll instead just upload some pictures.
About a visit to Bethlehem and the overcrowded Nativity Church that allegedly is build on the place where Christ was born.
- Withdrawal symptoms
On how 48 hours without a falafel feels like having gone cold turkey in this land.
- Calvinist-Lutheran skepticism (part 2)
About the fact that visiting the birthplace of Jesus didn't do too much to me.
- An Arab Palestinian Catholic Christian priest
About how the use of certain words in the Holy Land is very problematic, as so many wrong associations arise. No, not all Arabs all Muslims and yes, I know that already since reading 'Het zijn net mensen' and yes, it's still easy to forget the Christians in this country. Or the fact that there's 13 different recognised communities of Christians.
- More questions than answers
On how the entire group seems to realise that how longer one stays in the Holy Land, the more complicated the picture becomes and the less one gets it.
- Bizarre Bazaars
About buying stuff on a market in this country and on how the non-touristic market were we drank wine was a lot more fun (and cheaper) than the super touristic one in the Old City.
- Tony and Ajeer
About meeting two Palestinian Christian students, whose lifes were so much different from mine, while at the same time also similar to a certain degree.
- The conflict might never be solved
About the conflict. And that it might never be solved.
But I am tired and so I'll instead just upload some pictures.
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| Nativity Church. World's Old Church according to the guide. In the sense that parts of it are from the 6th century and have not been replaced. |
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| Again, the church was divided by three denominations. this is the Greek-Orthodox part. |
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| The Roman-Catholic (and more modern) part of the church. |
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| View over Bethlehem from the rooftop of the small carpentry (work)shop that we visited. |
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