“Current plans for the partition wall will leave Solomon’s Pools outside the area of Jewish sovereignty.”

Leaving aside the question of sovereignty in the Holy Land, a touchy subject to be sure, we should perhaps reflect that the flow, the “channel of peace,” signified by these ancient sacred waterways, has been interrupted… physically and metaphysically speaking. The beautiful icon of the Annunciation at the Panagia of Kykkos in Cyprus (3D panaromic view here :
http://cyprus.arounder.com/category/fullscreen/CY000006241.html )
depicts an upper reservoir flowing down into a lower pool – representing Mary as a vessel full of grace, the sacred waterway fulfilling the promises of the Old Covenant at the dawn of the New, a sacred model for us in Christ’s Church, the temple foreseen by Jeremiah and revealed to John on Mt Patmos. Think about it, the pools are at Bethlehem, our Lord’s place of birth…