The calendar brought the people of Jerusalem to a potential crash, and there was no one wise enough to avoid it. The first day of Eid Al Ahda fell on Sunday, August 11, which also coincided with what is considered to be the saddest day in the Jewish calendar, Tisha B’av. While top Jewish rabbis have ruled since 1967 that it is “forbidden for Jews to go up to the ...
![A Palestinian woman passes by a sign marking the 1982 Sabra and Shatila massacre in Beirut, Lebanon [GALLO/GETTY]](/sites/default/files/styles/d08_traditional/public/im/misc/sabra_shatila_getty.jpg?itok=OasUYadQ "A Palestinian woman passes by a sign marking the 1982 Sabra and Shatila massacre in Beirut, Lebanon [GALLO/GETTY]")
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![US Secretary of State John Kerry (L) and Russian Foreign minister Sergei Lavrov give a joint press conference in Geneva following their meeting on Syria's chemical weapons, on September 12, 2013. [AFP]](/sites/default/files/styles/d08_traditional/public/im/Syria/Kerry_Russia_Syria_Geneva_AFP.jpg?itok=ytjlJMNn "US Secretary of State John Kerry (L) and Russian Foreign minister Sergei Lavrov give a joint press conference in Geneva following their meeting on Syria's chemical weapons, on September 12, 2013. [AFP]")
