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and the Rabbi of Auschwitz, who is in heaven together with King David, would send a blessing my
and think up a scheme how to send these pictures to Adolf Hitler in Hell. He should have a laugh too.
How come these people are so funny and the secular filmmakers so boring?
spot two workers, non-residents, and talk to them.
You don’t have to play games with me. What are your real names?
You got to see the light shining up in the eyes of Yekhezkiel and Israel! They love this German
go to meet the two biggest rabbis of the neighborhood.
The holy men are vacationing.
don’t have professional jobs and most of them are very poor.
man dressed like I am these days must be a creature from the local zoo, a damned Zionist,
They chose the zoo option, I can tell; they think I’m a lovely
huge black trash bags in movement. Are they the Jewish Taliban?
my day women like these did not exist. Jerusalem has gotten holier, I think.
Aren’t Muslims forbidden to drink alcohol?
I am a post-post-Zionist. I see myself as an Israelite; I like the Bible. A Hebrew, not a Jew.
drink more beer – after all, I’m German – and enjoy all the mess in this country.
the good German, a contemporary German who is a do-gooder.
what I might find there: my grandparents.
Being German, how sad, is not fun.
offer me a break from the heady, humorless secular high class.
“Heavenly camel!”
get on the Al-Jazeera website, the one in Arabic, and sure enough I see it right there.
This land is too intense for me. So far I’ve only been to Jerusalem but it’s more intense than all of the US of A. I need something to eat, before I fall.
beats flying camels, menstruating rabbis, and Iranian love.
Mount of Olives.
Friday of Ramadan, which in Jerusalem translates into Day of Anger:
their highlight is going to pray in al-Aqsa.
about a million-plus Muslims are on the streets, up in the sky a zeppelin is flying and watching, helicopters too, and every Jewish cop around is tense.
When the Messiah arrives he will first come here, to the Mount of Olives.
but it is at the Mount of Olives that he is going to start. Did you not know?
This is the most expensive Jewish cemetery of history, a five-star cemetery.
yes, there are people who live amongst the dead. Two families, to be precise.
the Muslims strongly feel that only dead Jews should be allowed in this area.
The Piltzes have nine children,
You are amongst the dead. Isn’t it scary?
and I can’t accept the fact that the holiest city is divided,
“Arieh King, who works for Irving Moskowitz [an American tycoon], told me about this place.
They uprooted tombstones from Jewish graves in the cemetery
To take a little break from the dead, I mingle with the fasting Arabs and stop twenty
immediately screams at me: “Ramadan! Don’t drink!”
“One person says something, or throws a little stone, and the whole area will get inflamed. That’s how things work here.”
The rest were broken for the sake of desecration, or stolen for the sake of a better wall or floor.
Gilad, father of six children,
Growing up in Hamburg, one of the richer cities in Germany, he felt something was missing in his life: people to trust.
Irving Moskowitz has bought land from the Arabs
is in Maale Zeitim that Arieh King lives.
there are many people who wish him the worst.
the Jews’ highest religious court in the Temple’s time).
woman betraying her husband would be stoned. Is that what you want?
