On the corner just outside the Damascus Gate leading up from the Old City of Jerusalem is a guy with a Bunsen burner. For 3 shekels he will boil you up a fine Arabic coffee in just under 15 seconds. I take mine ithneyn, 2 sugars. The place is one of most under-rated people watching spots in the world. You can throw a rock and hit the old Green Line, and I'm sure such a thing has in fact been done many times in the past. Two or three street vendors sell kebabs and such - street meat in the Middle East is not for everyone, though I confess I do have a tender spot for it.
The corner is a great meeting place for locals. Workers heading to their day jobs will pick up their morning coffee, unemployed and out of school kids will gather to smoke incessantly, and in the evening the old men come out. "Politicians, just politicians. We've heard politicians for 60 years. This is nothing." "What can he do? He is not God." In my rather unscientific poll (conducted, if you are wise, among the older gentlemen - the younger can become a bit too impassioned after a bit), what I heard was mostly a variation on "thanks for coming out Mr. President, but..."
ps: a billboard in Nazareth, one block from the Church of the Annunciation:
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