Condemning violence…

Date October 17, 2005

I love being falsely accused on this blog. Really, it is one of my favorite things. I have been repeatedly accused by Reno for not condemning Palestinian violence. Perhaps I have not written the statement, “I, Adam Cleaveland, wholeheartedly condemn Palestinian violence.” Perhaps that is what some need to actually read, and see. In a [...]

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Israeli-Palestinian Conflict: Where is the Emergent voice?

Date 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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A phrase I will not ever forget…

Date August 6, 2005

[This post is in honor of Georgette, pictured on the right with her grandson, Aram]
When I go home to America, there are some phrases that I will miss from my time in the Middle East, some of which include: “As you like, as you like” and “I give you good price…very good price, special discount [...]

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Killing in Shfaram

Date 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

Date 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…”

Date 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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Freedom of Movement

Date 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

Date 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

Date 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…

Date 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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