Jordan Israel Feb 2008 约旦，以色列

Went for a trip to Jordan & Israel from 6 Feb 2008 to 14 Feb 2008.
Preta was great, a must go.
Israel too was very interesting and educational. Lots of feeling on why different religions killing one another.
孟子曰：‘春秋无义战。’

Jordan

Petra


Petra


Jordan Israel border


Israel
Getting into Israel from Jordan border took us a couple of hours. I do not know why they need to take so long.
到过了以色列，对基督教有了另一种看法。


Sea of Galilee. It is just a lake and nothing much.


Capemaum, the centre of Jusus's Ministry


Church of Tabgha where Jesus performed the miracle of the Loves and Fishes


A church next to Capemaum


Port of Acre


Old Jafa Port


Tel Aviv


Spot where Jesus was born in Bethlehem.


Bahai Gardens, Haifa of Israel.
I was impressed and wrote to relavant authoritirs in Singapore asking if we could do up our Mount Faber like this too ?


Jerusalem

From the days of Roman Emperor Constantine until the Arab conquest in 638, Jews were banned from Jerusalem but were allowed back into the city by Muslim rulers.
In 1099, Jerusalem was besieged by the first Crusaders, who killed most of its Muslim and Jewish inhabitants - Wikipedia.


由于耶路撒冷是三大宗教圣地，为了争夺圣地，自古以来，在这里不知发生过多少次残酷的征战。耶路撒冷先后１８次被夷为平地，但每次之后都得到复兴 - 新华网.


View from Mount of Olives at Jerusalem


Western Wall (Wailing Wall)
Solomon's Temple was built atop the Temple Mount in the 10th century BCE and destroyed by the Babylonians in 586 BCE. The Second Temple was built in 516 BCE. In around 19 BCE Herod the Great began a massive expansion project on the Temple Mount. He artificially expanded the area which resulted in an enlarged platform. Today's Western Wall formed part of the retaining perimeter wall of this platform.
Herod's Temple was destroyed by the Roman Empire, along with the rest of Jerusalem in 70 CE during the First Jewish*Roman war. However, the Western Wall was spared.
Jews around the world turn their eyes to the Western Wall, also know as the Wailing Wall, which is the closest location to the place where the temple used to stand where Jews can pray. The wall we know today was a part of the temple's western wall, hence its name. Believers leave notes in the cracks between the wall's stones.
Today, the Wailing Wall is a part of the wall surrounding the Muslim Mosques on Temple Mount.

哭墙
公元前１千年犹太大卫王的儿子所罗门兴建了一座华丽的圣殿，这就是著名的耶路撒冷第一圣殿。公元前５８６年，巴比伦军队攻占耶路撒冷，第一圣殿被毁，后来犹太人两度重修圣殿，但又在罗马占领时期两次被毁坏殆尽。当年圣殿留下的一堵西墙，犹太人认为是唯一最神圣的祈祷地方。许多世纪以来，犹太教徒都到这里来面壁祈祷，每当追忆历史上圣殿被毁情景，便不禁嚎啕大哭一场，“哭墙”因此而得名。
圣殿的原址现是一座清真寺。


Hall for The Last Supper


Museum of the Holocaust Yad Vashem
Bought a book at the museum, it says " The Hatred (of Jews) nutured by ancient Christian concepts regardded the Jews as the people of Israel and the people of Messiah, but also as the people who had rejected its redeemer Jusus, and thus ....."


Masada


Masada


Dead sea