marm mandelbaum today would have been on wall street, and i mean that in both intelligent and sort of nasty side of things. at a time when you think about it, if you are not to bring a real woman, or woman with business skills, there was almost nothing to do besides cry. everything else was closed off to you. she was a brilliant entrepreneur. she was a crook, no question, but i have to admit, no regard for. those a lawyer for the wilds which was an irish gang associate with the area on the lower east side which he might be tomorrow. they ran into -- you can't call a padlock. basically they disintegrate in the late 1880s because four leaders in a row were convicted of murder. howe and hummel defender three of them obvious and successfully. the fourth they did not defend, and i think it's because the fourth person left his victim almost literally on the doorstep because a couple steps away. so i would recommend if you're doing a murder and you want a particular lawyer, do not leave the body on the doorstep. and, finally, they were the lowest and most of the great bank brokers of the air

no arabs and no israelis were passing through mandelbaum gate to go to jordan. it was just diplomats and the tourist during christmas season or something. one day we got through the gate, at least the jordannian part. and we were approaching the israelis check point. and suddenly i cried out to my father, daddy, daddy, stop the car. and he turned around in astonishment and looked at me. i was grabbing with something on my t-shirt. it was a button that a friend in the jordannian sector had given me with the image of nasser. you know, nasser was -- i knew even as a little boy that nasser was wildly popular throughout the arab world and in jordan and egypt where he was president. but that he was the enemy of the israeli. in my childhood naivety, i thought it was going to make the israeli soldiers angry with me. i was keenly aware of the conflict, the borders, the divisions, the animosity. so i wrote about this. and about growing up in saudi arabia and lebanon and egypt. and then i talked about the fact that i had as a young man in any 20s had a sort of another sort