Religion and politics

Religion and politics

Israel
Jerusalem
Jerusalem, The Holy Jem, the most ancient city in the world. A city where the bliss of a legendary history competes with the rudeness of a current and destructing reality. A city in which, Bible, Tora and Koran books rest reconciliated on the same bookcase shelf while their followers, as eternal enemies, blow each other out in the streets or behind trenches and barricades. A city where the simplicity of the Wailing Wall merges with the sparkling gold and fayence of a superbe islamic art in the Omar Temple and with the imposing bulk of the Christian Orthodox cathedrals raised on the sites of Nativity and Holy Passion...
A case of fatal religious fondamendalism, of pure political expendiency or, simply,of human imperfectness?...
Maybe all of them.
In the photo, the heart of Jerusalem. The Wailing Wall superimposed by the superb dome of the Omar Temple. The Christian Orthodox basilicas are in another quarter of the city.