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Voices - Crossing Paths With Vanunu for the Fifth Time

Voices - Crossing Paths With Vanunu for the Fifth Time: "It happened last Monday, July 16th also known as the 9th day of Av, the day the Jewish Temple was destroyed.
I was on my way down Nablus Road in East Jerusalem just after attending Israeli Committee Against House Demolitions media kick off day for the first of 300 homes to be rebuilt out of the 18,000 Israel has destroyed. I had been a witness to the pouring of the foundation of the new home of the Hamdan clan of nine who still have the deeds to their property that were filled-out during the Ottoman Empire.
I was on my way back to the American Colony for a swim when Vanunu and I crossed paths in front of St. Stephen's Dominican Church on Nablus Road. "

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