Saudi Arabian authorities recently banned this website because of their accurate earthquake predictions . I have been staying with an Armenian Christian Arab family, praying at the Wall daily, studying with learned Rabbis, meeting with settlers in Judea, and basically keeping an open mind while trying to assess what is going to happen next. When I came here, I had the idea based on the news and internet, as well as my own preconceptions from my military service here twenty years ago, that the peace process would fail, a Palestinian State would be declared, and war would break out. I am happy to report, that I have totally discarded that assessment. Jerusalem today is nothing like I remember it.
Peace is in the air.
Hassidic Jews walk through the streets of the Muslim quarter on their way to synagogues there or to the Jewish quarter. Muslim couples stroll through the streets of the Jewish quarter at night. Secular Israeli tourists crowd out the pilgrims shopping in the Christian quarter. Jews and Arabs treat each other with tolerance and respect. Most people are prospering and few people want to ruin this happy state of affairs.