Entries from June 2005

Living in Beit Sahour

June 30, 2005

My mom, and some others, have asked for a little info on my living conditions in Beit Sahour. I am living with the Rishmawi family (well, a small portion of the Rishmawi family, apparently, there are a TON of Rishmawis in the Beit Sahour area). It is a 3-level style, with the parents (who I [...]

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How to Survive Arabic 101

June 30, 2005

Lesson #1: Put pictures of the girl you are madly in love with inside the folder you use for Arabic, so when you get bored, you can look at pictures of her and you and then just smile and realize that it really doesn’t matter whether you are fluent in Arabic or not, because there [...]

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Peace, Propaganda and the Promised Land

June 29, 2005

A few of us from the group went to watch a documentary last night, sponsored by the Beit Sahour branch of the Alternative Information Center (AIC), a group committed to making public alternative news media from the Middle East. The film was called “Peace, Propaganda and the Promised Land” – a very well-done, non-Michael-Moore-ish type [...]

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Faces of Palestine

June 29, 2005

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The Settlers

June 28, 2005

Who are the settlers? This is a question that I am constantly asking myself, even as I sit here in this restaurant and look out the window at the huge settlement within view of everywhere in Bethlehem. Is there a profile that would match up well for the average settler? Is this person a religious [...]

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What would you do?

June 27, 2005

What do you do when your land has been taken, your family has been killed, you know you will live in a “prison” for the rest of your life, you have no real future, you will never be able to travel, never be able to attain a visa, never be able to leave your surrounding [...]

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The Apartheid Wall

June 27, 2005

The Apartheid Wall. The Separation Wall. It is huge, and ugly and wrong. That is not uninformed propoganda. Even many of the Israeli soldiers in the IDF know that and tell us that. It is wrong. I will be taking photos of it wheneverf we run into sections of it. There is some amazing grafitti-art [...]

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At-Twani

June 27, 2005

Before visiting Hebron on Saturday, we stopped at the small village of At-Twani. We heard horrific stories of settlers from the settlement (#1) nearby who routinely charge into their homes with dogs and guns, who poison their lands, it is atrocious. We met with the local Christian Peacemaker Teams (CPT) volunteer, you read more about [...]

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A Normal Day in Hebron

June 26, 2005

There is really too much to write, and a few comments to respond to, but I don’t have much time to get this post online. But I did want to share with you some pictures from our day-trip to Hebron. Let this be more of a photo journal of our experience.

I don’t know how [...]

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Update after Hebron

June 25, 2005

1. Hebron: it was a crazy experience - maybe you heard about the news about the killing of a settler (read here and here). Check BBC or Al-Jazeera news. We were there - and I have pictures of a crazy experience that I’ll post tomorrow.
2. One word: constipation.

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