Palestine and Israel Posts

Date February 2, 2008

Many of you probably know this, but I spent the summer of 2005 in Egypt, Palestine and Israel. During that time, I kept a pretty active blog about my experience, but it was separate from pomomusings. I’ve recently imported in all of those entries and fixed all the photos. If you’re into browsing archives, these [...]

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The drive back to Princeton

Date September 12, 2005

I pulled into Princeton Theological Seminary at around 3.00am last night - it was a pretty long drive, not to mention being stuck here DC traffic for about an hour or two (the picture above was taken then). It was absolutely horrible stop-and-go traffic, and my left foot just started hurting from the clutch (this [...]

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A long, long drive…

Date September 9, 2005

By the amount of stuff I brought, you’d think i was staying for…well, a really long time. It really is pretty pathetic, but…you know how it is, you drive somewhere, so you just keep throwing more and more stuff into your car.
But alas, it’s all mine (and more clothes and another bag or two you [...]

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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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What to do…?

Date 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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Last post from Israel

Date August 2, 2005

I’m now sitting in the Tel Aviv terminal (on FREE wireless - I gotta give the Israelis some credit), waiting my boarding in 30 minutes. I made it through security with little to no problems. The first girl started asking me questions and then I realized, “Oh shit, this is the ’security interview’ and I [...]

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A Day in Tel Aviv & Jaffa

Date 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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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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