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This picture of the wall was taken from Abu Dis, which was one of the many towns we had to drive through on the way home from the Dead Sea yesterday. Because of the by-pass roads, closures, checkpoints, etc., what should take about 30 min to the Dead Sea takes over an hour and a [...]
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There is not a lot to say about our trip to Jericho. Our first stop was at St. George’s Monastery, which is down in the cliffs outside of Jericho. Absolutely gorgeous. After that we stopped at a place (I forget) that had some ruins, and we took some pictures, and that was that. Then we [...]
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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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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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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.
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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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