Sunday, October 17, 2010

Jerusalem, Israel

The place is the Mount of Olives. The year is 2000. The event is Palm Sunday. It’s a new millennium, the third of the ‘Christian Era.’ It’s also the year the Pope came to town, and these are his people. Note, however, that the procession is led by ersatz Ottoman authorities as protectors (a tradition that continued despite the collapse of Ottoman rule). [2000]

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