its something inside you

amazing evening.

we just decided with tytti to hed to the bazaars of old town.
shabat was beginning and the bazaars closing.
we just wandered.
to the arab quarter.
thats my favourite. (well, to be honest everythings my favourite)
but the excitement and chance of fear is biggest there :)
ok, sometimes it gets even frustrating,
cause our blond heads tricker many shouts, but nowadays we know how to respond:
azov oti! leave me alone.

so today we got a bit lost.
but as tytti put it, the best way to get to know the town is to get lost.
walked among the cars in the via dolorosa.
tried to check from the map where we are,
and then ayman came.
an arab guy, who offered to take us to the roof of jerusalem.

and so he did.
I cant even describe it.
he took us all the way up.
we stood over the bazaarstreets, right in the middle of the old town.
saw the jewish quarter, the muslim quarter with al aqsa and the dome,
the christian quarter with its churches and the armeanian quarter.
heard stories from ayman.
history, facts. about the palestinians and the arabs and about the fact how they actually are one and the same, and still are not. about the fact how in the arab identity cards they are nobodies, and their nationality is marked with stars. about how the armenians actually fight more with arabs than the jews do, cause the armenians were driven out from their land by turkish who were muslims.

and this wasnt even enough, ayman showed us more, told us more.
we walked to the zion gate, formerly knows as the king davids gate.
he showed us the three mountains up from the roof of the building where Jesus had the last supper. he explained about the zionists who sleep by the gate. he showed us the wall, they are building to divide jerusalem. he told us about the golden gate, wich cant be used, and how the al-masiuah will come one day from that gate. he told us why Jesus hasnt come back yet (cause he is waiting at the checkpoint on the israeli border :) )he told us about ramadan, that might start tomorrow, and about how religion is only a set of rules. (oh how many people are so fed up with religion, Jesus, let us present something living)

and he told us, that once youve settled in jerusalem you cant leave the place.
its something inside you, you cant leave the place. you always end up back.

yes, a good night indeed.