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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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We spent Saturday in Ramallah, the same day that Condoleeza Rice met with Mahmoud Abbas in Ramallah, and we met with a couple human rights organizations, including Addammer and Defence for Children International-Palestine section (DCI/PS) (which also has an Israel section). They were the kind of presentations that kind of leave you feeling sort of [...]
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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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After finally getting through the checkpoint, both groups rendezvoused at the An-Najah National University (Old Campus) in Nablus. An-Najah is the 2nd largest university in the West Bank, and about 16,000 students attend school there on one of their two campuses. We were met by some of the students and they gave us a tour [...]
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Yesterday, we decided we wanted to go to Nablus. Simple enough, right? Not in the occupied West Bank. But thanks to my Irritable Bowel Syndrome (IBS) and Katie’s knowledge of the Muslim commentators of Aristotle, we were golden. Let me explain.
We started off the day leaving Beit Sahour at 7am with our driver, but as [...]
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Just a quick note for all of you out there. I don’t know if anyone ran across any news of there being some shooting in Nablus early this morning. Someone just mentioned that to us when we got home today from Nablus, but everything seemed fine (as “fine” as things can be in Nablus). We [...]
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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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Mar Saba is located about 30 minutes outside of the town I live in, Beit Sahour. A few miles outside of Beit Sahour, you are immediately in desert, with a few tiny villages nearby. About 20 of us took a bus out there, and then spent last night hiking around and enjoying the absolute beauty [...]
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