After a working luncheon with Prime Minister Fayyad and other officials, the Secretary-General returned to Jerusalem for meetings with United Nations officials.

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He then returned to Jerusalem to address Israeli students in a 30-minute speech liberally sprinkled with Hebrew and references to Israeli pop culture.

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When, as part of the implementation of the Oslo peace process with the PLO, the government of Israel allowed for an Arab armed force to be deployed on the outskirts of the city, fear returned to Jerusalem.

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As dusk fell, the Pope returned to Jerusalem where he visited the Garden of Gethsemane on the Mount of Olives, praying in a basilica built on the spot where the gospels recount Jesus' torment on the night before he was betrayed and arrested.

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On the island of Kos, there are the mighty towers of the Castle of the Knights of St John, the medieval order of holy crusaders who went to Jerusalem but never returned home.

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We ate them in the shade of a tall chestnut in the town square and drank cold draft beers, then pedaled on to Souillac and the old abbey there, built by returned Crusaders in the style of Hagia Sophia in Constantinople, which they had seen on their way to Jerusalem.

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