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60K views · 1K reactions | These two Palestinian women are defying Israeli settler attacks to show the world a different side of the Palestinian territories. “Tourism reminds the world that Palestinians own their land.” | AJ+ | Facebook

Right, so you can always tell when Israel’s spin machine is wobbling, because something leaks out through a source that normally acts like a government loudhailer. And that’s exactly what’s happened here: Christian tourists finally start trickling back into Jerusalem after a year of war and a ninety-per-cent tourism collapse, and what do they find? Not welcome, not safety, not the “shared civilisation” nonsense Western governments like to parrot — they find ultra-Orthodox men spitting at them, b