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If you use cement, the bricks will be fucked worse and quicker.
Lime mortar is softer, permeable, and it moves.
As the wall moves in warm and cold, and wet / dry / frost, the lime mortar will suck up the moment instead of the bricks. Then you just repoint.
If you use cement, it resists movement and water, and the bricks suffer, with spelling and crumbling.
Pointing with lime is pretty easy, and for a wall like that, plane pointing would be fine. Just remember to wet the brick first, and consider protecting the brick with a sheet after.