inflation is out of this world and the governments which our government has technically supported for years are corrupt as all get out and generally the people are getting screwed and they're tired of it and they're willing to try anything to get out from under it even if that means going to communism
Inflation is higher than ever.
The city has drawn Christian visitors, sometimes heavily armed, ever since the proclamation of the  Holy Land  and development of the first Christian sites for pilgrims in the fifth century.