Finally, what do you think were the odds that we would find ourselves at Petra at night at the full moon, the Wailing Wall at night on the Sabbath on the first night of Hanukkah, AND come out of the Church of the Nativity to find them erecting the Christmas Tree on Manger Square in Bethlehem? Pretty nice little trifecta?
It is, again, a perfect example of the incongruities of religion in this part of the world to see a Christmas tree being raised in front of a minaret with women in Muslim attire in the forefront.
I love the obviously expensive fir tree brought in from the hills being used as a Christmas tree when there is a perfectly good palm tree right next to it! Oh, well, the Germans taught us well about tanenbaums....
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