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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What to do…?
August 2, 2005
As you are reading this, I am *hopefuly* in an airplane leaving Ben Gurion International Airport (I say *hopefully* because as anyone knows, the Israelis could easily detain me for questioning if they detect any problems with any of the answers I give them when I go through the Security Check line at the airport). [...]
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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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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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Christian Zionism
July 31, 2005
I have stayed away from this topic this summer, but you know how sometimes you go looking for stuff on the internet that you just know is going to make you mad. Well, I did that today - and it all began when I accidentally ran across the picture on the right from this CBN [...]
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Refuseniks
July 30, 2005
I wonder how many of you have heard of the refuseniks. It is a movement, now around 635 soldiers strong, within the Israeli Defense Forces. It is a movement of soldiers who say that would die to fight for and protect Israel, but who will no longer do so within the Occupied Territories. It is [...]
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To be a tourist, or…
July 30, 2005
Sometimes I think I’m a pretty bad tourist. Hell, I don’t even like to be a ‘tourist’ but sometimes, you just have to call it like you see it, and frankly, sometimes, I am a tourist. But, a bad one. I was supposed to go to Nazareth today, which was poor planning on my part [...]
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The Magic Passport
July 29, 2005
This is a story about a passport.
Once upon a time there was a passport….and although he was new, and blue and shiny, he never really thought much of himself. After all, there were almost 60 million just like him. Blue and shiny. He never felt special; sure maybe on the inside he had a few [...]
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I’billin
July 28, 2005
This is the small village of I’billin, just about 20min outside of Haifa. This is the view from the balcony of the flat I’m staying at. I’m staying on the grounds of the Mar Elias Educational Institutions. Basically I’m using these days to stay up late, sleep in, rest, do some blogging, thinking, and processing [...]
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A Night with 10 Palestinians
July 28, 2005
On one of the last evenings of my time in the West Bank, a few of us gathered on the back porch area to smoke some arguila and eat peanuts. As it got later and later, the group continued to get larger and larger, and at one point we had about 16-18 people sitting around [...]
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