While I'm collecting my thoughts about the West Bank and the border crossing checkpoints that separate it from 'green line' Israel, here are a few tourist-y photos from Jerusalem's Old City.
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(Above) A view of the inside of the city walls, near the New Gate
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A street just inside the New Gate in the Armenian Quarter
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The bazaars and vendors get more intensive as you walk into the lower levels of the Old City
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Finally, you're in a subterranean warren of souvenir shops
Here's a very rare Old City street scene with no people in it
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The entrance to the Church of the Holy Sepulcher, packed inside and outside with religious pilgrims.
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