Travel

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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Lesson #1: Put pictures of the girl you are madly in love with inside the folder you use for Arabic, so when you get bored, you can look at pictures of her and you and then just smile and realize that it really doesn’t matter whether you are fluent in Arabic or not, because there [...]

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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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Before visiting Hebron on Saturday, we stopped at the small village of At-Twani. We heard horrific stories of settlers from the settlement (#1) nearby who routinely charge into their homes with dogs and guns, who poison their lands, it is atrocious. We met with the local Christian Peacemaker Teams (CPT) volunteer, you read more about [...]

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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.

I don’t know how [...]

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One of the treasures of the Palestinian land and heritage is its olive trees and the carvings that are made out of the wood. This is another reason that the Israelis build their settlement by-pass roads directly through olive tree fields; as well, they often uproot the trees and sometimes even replant them within their [...]

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Have I mentioned yet how much I love free wireless internet in Bethlehem? I’m sitting Reem Al Bawadi, the restaurant right next door to the Holy Land Trust’s office, and I’m soaking up their free wireless, so thanks Holy Land Trust! The above picture is from our time last night at The Tent in Beit [...]

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