Walking For Jerusalem! Pictures, Part 2

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21 Tishrei 5779

30 September 2018

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The News on the Israeli Street 

Palestinian terror in the last 24 . . .

In Judea and Samaria:

*Palestinian terrorists opened fire on a military post near Jilazon.

*Palestinian terrorists attacked IDF forces at Qadum.

*Palestinian terrorists assaulted an Israeli family in a car in Yafia.

The car in which the Israelis were driving at Yafia. Two people in the car had to be taken to a local hospital with serious wounds (photo: hakolhayehudi).

Palestinian terrorists staged “rock” and Molotov attacks in a host of locations including on Road 443, throughout Gush Etzion, and in the areas around Hevron.

The above reports are taken from hakolhayehudi, Rescue 443, and rotter.

Along the Gaza border:

In this blurry picture you can see the rush of Hamas terrorists toward the border yesterday.

Palestinian terrorists attacked in various locations along the border where, according to the IDF, they “sabotaged the security infrastructure, attempted to breach the security fence in several locations, and threw more than 100 improvised explosive devices and explosive grenades at the fighters and the perimeter fence.”

A surprise from the Chinese; no surprise from the Europeans . . .

A Sinopec gas station besides oil refinery facilities of Sinopec in Shanghai.
(Photo by Kevin Lee/Bloomberg News)

In an almost shocking decision, the Chinese oil giant Sinopec announced yesterday that it was dramatically cutting back its oil imports from Iran beginning in November. This follows the decision of the largest Indian oil companies, National and Chennai, to halt their imports all together.

But the Iranians need not worry.

Appeasers that they are, the European Union let it be known yesterday–via Iranian FM Zarif–that it will sign a massive new oil deal with Iran in the coming days.

With the possible exception of the United Nations and its commissions and committees, there is no slimier entity on the planet these days than the European Union. 

Speaking of Iran . . . and Hezbollah . . . and money . . .

Of course, we all know that Iran and its proxy Hezbollah generate huge sums of money through the sale of drugs–specifically heroin–throughout the Middle East, Europe, and South America.

Isn’t it ironic that on the same day that the new European deal to supply Iran with billions of dollars in oil revenues was announced, Bulgarian customs officials announced that they had discovered 712 kilograms (1,566 pounds) of heroin on two Iranian trucks entering Bulgaria from Turkey?

The heroin was found inside construction materials destined for Austria.

The Iranians can carry out terrorist acts in Europe and swamp Europe with heroin, but that will not stop the European Union from embracing Iran.

Internal leftist “terror” against IDF soldiers . . .

A leading Israeli attorney published a warning yesterday to IDF soldiers not to participate in the destruction of the illegal Palestinian settlement of Khan Al-Ahmar scheduled for this week.

According to the warning: “You are warned that the destruction of the village of Khan al-Ahmar constitutes a grave breach of international humanitarian law of a degree that amounts to a war crime and can be brought to trial in the International Criminal Court operating in The Hague . . . The settlement’s representatives intend to take all legal measures in their hands, including appealing to the International Criminal Court, to bring to justice those who initiated, planned, participated, supervised or taken any other part in the destruction of the village of Khan al-Ahmar, Regardless of their rank or position.”

Can you believe this? Of course you can. 

The Sukkot holiday comes to an end . . .

With a bang and a barbecue. The Israel Nature and National Parks Protection Authority estimated that 160,000 Israelis visited Israel’s national parks in the last few days–an all-time record for Sukkot.

The most heavily visited parks were Masada, Caesarea, Ashkelon, and the nature reserves of Ein Gedi, Nahal Snir, and the Banias.

TODAY’S BLOG

Walking For Jerusalem! Pictures, Part 2

In yesterday’s blog, I left you at the base of the Mt. of Olives as we participated in our annual walk for Jerusalem on Sukkot.  Today, we will start at that point and continue on the route described in that blog.

If you recall, we had just finished walking down from Mt. Scopus through Solomon’s Garden, past volunteers harvesting olives and past the Temple Mount Sifting Project. We now reached Wadi Kidron which runs along the eastern wall of the Old City.

Your humble servant and his wife in front of the eastern wall. Note the sealed “Golden Gate” which is just to the left of the golden dome of the Kepat HaSela (Dome of the Rock).

The walk then turned into a climb again:

Look closely at the trees in the background. Can you see the onion domes of the Russian orthodox church peeking over them?

Up and up we went again with hundreds of other individuals and groups–the groups were especially fun as they sang songs as they marched. The group you hear singing in this video is a group from a military school near the Golan Heights made up of Druze and Jews (note the flags):

Click here to watch the video.

Up one hill and down another–this time down to the Garden of Gethsemane Church with its beautiful ancient olive tree garden:

Note the size of the trees!

The front of the church:

At this point, we started the long walk up to the Old City with the Golden Gate looming up on the eastern wall:

Do you know the story of this gate?

This gate was closed by the Muslims in 810 CE, reopened in 1102 by the Crusaders, walled up by Saladdin in 1187, rebuilt and then walled up again by Suleiman in 1541. Why was the gate repeatedly closed by Muslims?

Because according to Jewish tradition, the Moshiach (Messiah) will enter Jerusalem through this gate when he returns. Accompanying him will be Elijah, a Kohen. The gate is somehow meant to stop them; what is more, Suleiman established a Muslim cemetery in front of the gate believing that a Kohen could not pass through.

However, what Suleiman did not know is that a Kohen is allowed to pass through a Muslim cemetery–but not a Jewish one. 

As we walked along Thursday morning, we all speculated what would happen if the Moshiach decided to arrive at that moment!

As I have noted, during this section of the walk we were skirting and on the Mount of Olives. A tiny portion of the enormous Jewish cemetery there came into view on the left hand side of the route:

Surprisingly, this portion of the cemetery is in disrepair with gravestones scattered about. The entire cemetery was desecrated during the Jordanian occupation of the Old City of Jerusalem (1948-1967). Jordanian soldiers took tombstones and used them to build latrines.

Past Absalom’s Pillar we went as the steep steps led us up to the Old City:

Note the line of marchers ascending the steps.

Finally, we reached the top of the steps and entered the Old City through the archaeological site just below the Dung Gate to the west and the Al-Aqsa Mosque to the north (across the street from Ir David–the City of David):

Al-Aqsa’s cupola is just visible over the top of the wall.

Once in the Jewish Quarter in the Kotel Plaza we were greeted by an explosion of festive colors and singing. On one side were a large group of Ethiopian Jews singing under colorful umbrellas:

They were celebrating Sukkot of course–but maybe also the announcement last week that 1000 more Ethiopian Jews will soon be brought to Israel.

On the other side of the plaza is the Kotel itself; I took this picture of orthodox men praying with their lulavs:

What a marvelous sight of waving lulavs!

As you can imagine, after some 3 hours and 5 miles of steep climbs and descents, we were tired, but we were just getting started. From here it was up to the Zion Gate, down to Sultan’s Pool, and out to western Jerusalem’s Sacher Park–another 4 miles!

To conclude: if you have never participated in the Jerusalem walk, you must do it because it is one of the most exhilarating ways you can show your love for Israel’s eternal capital of Jerusalem!