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A friend of mine gave me this link a week or two ago. It is to a blog entry written by Jim Berekley about the Israeli-Palestinian conflict and the role of the PCUSA. He lifted up a letter written by a group called Presbyterians in Dialogue for Peace as the example of an “evenhanded, reasonable, [...]
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The Israeli Defense Forces. Many in our group have talked about the need to be sympathetic and understanding to the soldiers. These are kids. Little boys. Little 18 year old boys and girls who are walking around, and feel the power of their M-16s slung over their shoulders. So, there is a certain amount of [...]
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The Wall. What does one call it? A separation barrier? An apartheid wall?
There are some who don’t like the word apartheid, while even the Archbishop Desmond Tutu has compared what is happening in the Middle East to what happened in South Africa:
“In our struggle against apartheid, the great supporters were Jewish people. They [...]
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We stood in the front of the non-violent demonstration against the continuing construction of the separation barrier known as The Wall. Various Israeli peace groups, internationals and Palestinians joined in the chants against the occupation and presence of Israeli soldiers on occupied land. And then the stones came.
At first it was just a few – [...]
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[Sorry Sarah, mom and Sarah’s mom]
Today was a day of many firsts for me. I will upload pictures as soon as I am able, but it may not be until Sunday, because tomorrow our group will travel to Jenin.
What were the firsts for Adam?
It was my first time in Bil’in (click here for the ISM’s [...]
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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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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 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. 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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I’m writing this post from the Via Dolorosa in the Old City of Jerusalem. The Via Dolorosa. Why wouldn’t there be internet on the Via Dolorosa…? I goit up this morning and walked down to the Damascus Gate and entered into the Old City of Jerusalem. I was immediately just overwhelmed by the maze of [...]
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