"When you’re a journalist who works and lives in Jerusalem, you know that religious conflict is an important story," writes Thomas Coex, AFP's chief photographer for Israel and the Palestinian Territories. "There’s so much tension here. You see it every day. We’re never far from a new conflict throughout the whole city."
To be human is to constantly strive, despite repeated failings, to ascend on the ladder, as we say, toward God, toward theosis – and to seek to raise oneself toward the heavenly in all things, in a…