When Bush Comes to Shove

George Bush was in Jerusalem this past week Wed-Fri. Along with the rerouting of the city buses, the streets were almost deserted with Jerusalemites deciding not to risk potential traffic jams. Keren Haysod and Emek Refaim were closed to traffic but I was able to walk past the King David and see all the insanity—the tents, the secret service, the security blimp (yes, I said security blimp). Of course when an international figure such as Bush comes to town so does everyone else. On Wednesday I passed two protests on my way into town. One was outside the American Consulate and consisted of mostly Arabs chanting for Bush to go home— blaming him for the Occupation. Two blocks away there was a protest of a different sort with Jews dressed in Kafiyas and holding toy guns calling Bush the father of Hamasastine and holding posters with Bush wearing a Kafiya. Perhaps this is the way to peace; after all isn’t the enemy of my enemy, my friend?