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In 1910, when Bethlehem was a town in a sleepy province of the Ottoman Empire, a local man built a magnificent house on the main road from Jerusalem to Hebron. Made from the region's limestone—whose shades, from pale honey to dazzling white, give the Holy Land its distinctive palette—the house was built around courtyards and fountains in the Ottoman style; frescoes and mosaics graced its walls and ceilings. In the 1930s, the man's family went bankrupt. The house was later used as a prison by the British, when they governed Palestine under a League of Nations mandate; it then did service as a police academy and a school. But in 2000 the old house was converted into a hotel. Closed during the second intifadeh, the Jacir Palace InterContinental reopened its doors in 2005....
Tony has been doing a lot of leaping without serious looking lately, becomeing a Catholic, Is A Catholic Christian An Oxymoron?, and then Special Envoy to the Middle East, now peddling "Palestine." He seems to have forgotten, What Lord Cary, who is nearly as misguided as Tony is said, four years ago, oh, and something amusing about the Gaza strip, http://info.jpost.com/C005/Supplements/GazaUpheaval/ft.04.html. There will be economic progress and religious freedom in the Gaza and the West Bank when Israel takes complete control of them.
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about the Gaza strip, 
