US President, Donald Trump is on a visit to Israel. The streets in Jerusalem’s city centre are closed off, the streets of the old city to be strictly guarded. Ten thousand police officers are in use.
Already hours before the red carpet for US President, Donald Trump has been rolled out, were decorated with American flags in the streets of Jerusalem. Also, the highway One, which runs from Ben Gurion airport towards Jerusalem, is flags. Trump’s popularity has waned in Israel within the last few weeks. According to one of the daily newspaper “Jerusalem Post” representative survey, only 56 percent of Israelis believe that Trump was more pro-Israeli than pro-Palestinian – in January, there were still 79 percent. Nevertheless, caused him an almost Royal reception. Many of the residents of Jerusalem are happy that the President comes in for his first foreign trip to Israel.
US President, Trump visited the wailing wall
Proud about the visit of the US President
“I am excited about Trump,” says a restaurant owner in the vicinity of the old town. Your business is booming, because instead of the normal visitors, journalists and security forces to come for lunch. For the business woman this is fortunate. Because of the otherwise lively area is just a few hours before Trumps Jerusalem-visit unusually quiet. In the house next door, Trump has more Fans. “To me, it doesn’t matter that today, everything is shut off. I think it is good that he is here – Trump is good for Israel,” says the waiter, Aaron Friedman. Whether or not Trump has a Chance to conclude a peace agreement? “A Chance for peace anyway,” he believes.
Many other city-dwellers are today, just stay home. Numerous streets around the old town and the King David Hotel, in which Donald Trump and stayed where he was this evening with Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu will meet, have been cordoned off around lunch time. School children from the Hanisui school in the immediate vicinity of the King David hotel to complain: “That’s not fair – we get home”, whine. In the Morning, many of the bus routes went. “Today, only a quarter of the class was there – those who live in the vicinity. We could make no proper lessons. And now we need instead of twenty minutes and fifty minutes until we get home”.
The challenge for the security services
In the old city of Jerusalem, most of the shops are closed for reasons throughout the day. In the morning, tourists wander flocks through the narrow streets, while security people open the dogs here each shaft, and to look for explosives. The side streets, otherwise with traders and passers-by, are eerily empty. Around ten thousand police officers across the country because of the Trump’s visit, the spokesman of the police, Micky Rosenfeld.
Many streets in the downtown are cordoned off
The action is coordinated by the police, together with Israeli and American security services up to the lowest step of the U.S. President. “The cooperation with the Americans ran smoothly,” said Rosenfeld in an interview with Deutsche Welle. On the day before employees of the Jerusalem police had admitted, however, that the Trump-visit because of the many unforeseen Changes constituted a special challenge for you.
Solidarity with Palestinian hunger strikers
Also in the Arab quarter of the shops have closed. Residents tell, not for safety reasons, but out of solidarity – you were not taking part in a General strike for Palestinian prisoners. For weeks, the detainees are calling for a hunger strike for better prison conditions in Israeli jails. They are lead by Marwan Barghouti, in prison for multiple murder in Israeli prison, and one of the leaders of the second Intifada. According to the Arab correspondent of the transmitter i24 is it unusual that Arabs with Israeli state to attend citizenship to such protests.
Donald Trump and President Reuven Rivlin
On Tuesday, Trump will visit the Church of the Nativity in Bethlehem, a visit to the Religion. The stores would be opened in the old city of Jerusalem, one could see how the inter-seems to work-religious dialogue: The Souvenir retailers sell the alike souvenir with Christian Crosses, Jewish stars of David and Muslim crescents. The confessional differences do not play a big role – the main thing, the customer.