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Before Corona I guided groups fairly frequently on dual narrative tours of Jerusalem where I provided my Jewish Zionist narrative, and an Arab Palestinian guide provided a counter narrative. Typically, the Palestinian guide would point out buildings in the Moslem quarter with Israeli flags on them and categorize them as settlements and present them as provocations. My response usually went something like, “I don’t share the ideology of most of the people living, studying, and working in these homes and institutions, but like them, I am drawn to these sites. I think it would be amazing to live in one of these homes because many of them were occupied by important pious Jews with de