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In reply to Irfan Khawaja. These two links give a good sense of what the wall looks like from the Palestinian side. Imagine that you went straight through my header shot, then somehow jumped over the wall into the town of Abu Dis. This is what you&#821…

In reply to Irfan Khawaja. I’ve put my shot on the header of the blog. If you walk 1,000 meters directly forward from Longman’s position, and descend somewhat down the hill and onto the street–imagine, in effect, jumping over the hous…

In reply to butimbeautiful. No, the yellow cobble-stone like wall in the immediate foreground the of the shot is not the Israeli security wall, it’s just the side of someone’s house. The security wall is in fact not easily visible in Longma…

I would have said the wall is the most notable feature in this photo. Maybe there should be a crusade to Palestine by western well wishers, in support of the Palestinian people. I’d go. Of course, one might not get a visa LikeLike

In reply to Irfan Khawaja. Now that I look more closely, he’s not on the street, but on the rooftop of a home in the Mamilla or Mahane Israel neighborhoods of Jerusalem, not that that changes anything I said. LikeLike

In reply to butimbeautiful. The irony is that I can only “like” your comments on a Mac. LikeLike

I should add that it’s not really clear to me that Longman is seeing the Jordanian mountains in this shot, or if any Jordanian highlands are in fact visible from this vantage in Jerusalem. He’s looking southeast from Jerusalem, but the only…

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James Longman is a well-known British journalist currently traveling the world, including Israel, on an extended reporting assignment. This photo below is from his Twitter feed: here he is in Jerusalem about two weeks ago, looking eastward from a well known spot in the city. On a “clear Jerusalem evening,” what he sees when he…