Looking northward from Joppa (or Jaffa, or Yafo) toward our hotel \u2014 which is one of the high rise buildings off in the distance, just to the left of (and slightly above) the center of the photo \u2014 in Tel Aviv
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It was a boring flight, which is always good.<\/p>\n
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I won\u2019t be around my computer much over the next few days, so you\u2019ll have to get your news and views from some source of equivalent value, status, and reliability (such as, say, the National Enquirer<\/em>, the Onion<\/em>, or the New York Times<\/em>.<\/p>\n\u00a0<\/p>\n
But here\u2019s a note for my Malevolent Stalker and his coterie, as well as for more conventional criminal types: \u00a0Our house is neither uninhabited nor unprotected. \u00a0So don\u2019t get any ideas.<\/p>\n
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Posted from Tel Aviv, Israel<\/p>\n
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