Mark Ziese July 28, 2014 Bethlehem, Israel-Palestine Old Donkey Blanket Mark Ziese July 28, 2014 Bethlehem, Israel-Palestine Bethlehem is flung like a old donkey blanket over knobby vertebrae. The backbone rises, falls, and rises again, clacking through the villages. Hebron is up the line, above Bethlehem; Jerusalem rests below it.