World Focus: The eyes of the world are trained on Israel. But will there be anything to see? - Middle East - World - The Independent

World Focus: The eyes of the world are trained on Israel. But will there be anything to see? - Middle East - World - The Independent:

So will it be tragedy, farce or tourism? Obama’s a tourist, so says the Davy Crockett of the American journalistic frontier and philosopher king of The New York Times (aka T Friedman, Esq), but he’s wrong. The winner of the Nobel Prize for Public Speech-making will be at least a super-tourist – with 10,000 armed Israeli and American tour guides in Jerusalem alone. Now that, Mr President, is the wall. No, not That Wall, we’re talking about the Ottoman palisade on each side of the city’s Damascus Gate.

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