Israeli-Palestinian Conflict: Where is the Emergent voice?
August 19, 2005
So I’ve been thinking…and I’ve been thinking a lot about Israel and Palestine. Now, much of what I’ll say, please remember that I just spent the summer in Bethlehem, and so this issue is pretty close to me right now in many ways, and that’s why I’m paying extra attention to it recently. But I’ve [...]
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Disengagement [Thoughts from Palestine]
August 16, 2005
My friend Alyssa has some thoughts on the disengagement. Go here to read the full post; below is quote I found to be pretty perceptive:
Now it appears that this pullout merely means that Gaza will be a caged fight between the P.A. and those fed up with its practices. Now I realize this all sounds [...]
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Disengagement Begins…
August 14, 2005
As many of you may (or should) know by now, right now, in Gaza, IDF soldiers, in teams of 4 are visiting homes, issuing orders that the Jewish settlers have 48 hours to leave their homes. If, after those 48 hours, the settlers have not left, the IDF and Israeli police forces are going to [...]
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Killing in Shfaram
August 4, 2005
I was just checking the news last night and saw that there was an Israeli soldier who shot dead four people on a bus in an Israeli Arab town; and he was then killed by the people of the town. And all of this took place in Shfaram (BBC news clip here). A town I [...]
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A Report from Gaza
August 4, 2005
[A friend of mine who was in Bethlehem with me had the chance to go to the Gaza Strip for a few days, and I asked him if I could put his account of his time there on this blog. He said yes, and if you have any questions for him, as he mentions at [...]
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“You must keep silence…”
August 3, 2005
As I’ve been approaching the time to go home, and feeling excited but also apprehensive as to how to share my experience with friends and people at churches, I was looking forward to meeting with Abuna (Father) Elias Chacour (click here for another bio) last week. Abuna (as everyone refers to him in I’billin) actually [...]
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Last post from Israel
August 2, 2005
I’m now sitting in the Tel Aviv terminal (on FREE wireless - I gotta give the Israelis some credit), waiting my boarding in 30 minutes. I made it through security with little to no problems. The first girl started asking me questions and then I realized, “Oh shit, this is the ’security interview’ and I [...]
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A Day in Tel Aviv & Jaffa
August 1, 2005
I arrived in Tel Aviv earlier today and took a taxi then to Jaffa, where my “guest house” is – Beit Immanuel Guest House. The guesthouse is a pretty interesting place – it’s staffed (I’m pretty sure) primarily by Messianic Jews. Too bad I’m not going to be here for their Friday evening worship service, [...]
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“Now THAT must have been…interesting…???”
August 1, 2005
“Now THAT must have been…interesting…???” This was the response from the Messianic Jew receptionist this evening when she asked where I’d been traveling. “Oh, I lived in Bethlehem for about 6 weeks.” You should have seen her face. It was a mixture of confusion, concern and utter amazement. “Now THAT must have been…interesting…???” I replied, [...]
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Freedom of Movement
August 1, 2005
Moving around and in and out of the West Bank is so easy for us Americans. We got to the point at the main checkpoint in Bethlehem where we sometimes didn’t even need to pull out our passports, and if we did, it was just so that they would see that it said UNITED STATES [...]
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