Sameer Rahim
The view from King Hussein/Allenby Bridge: Sameer Rahim
The bus driver taking us from Amman towards Jerusalem was playing Fairuz’s lament for the Holy Land’s “city of prayers.” I must have heard the Lebanese diva’s song a dozen times while in Jordan. It was a week since US President Donald Trump declared Jerusalem to be Israel’s capital, and tensions were simmering in the country that lost the eastern half of the city in 1967. Approaching the King Hussein/ Allenby Bridge, the current border between Jordan and Israel/Palestinian Territories, our driver turned up the volume.