Under the walls of old Jerusalem, black-robed priests and students lined up beside barricades, a bonfire and a mound of rubble just after midnight in mid-January to sing in their new year with dozens of other Armenians.
The community had marched out from the nearby St James Cathedral to say prayers in a car park, bracing themselves for a year of battles over the buckled tarmac where they stood, illuminated by the headlights of a circle of cars.
