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Palestinian Territory
Travel Blogs from Palestinian Territory
Old
This is a top pick! Back in Seattle, a 100-year-old house is old. On the East Coast, 300 years is old. Jericho is 7,000 years old!!! One of the oldest cities in the world. The foundations of stone gates, towers and homes still exist. What brought ...
"O little town..."
This is a top pick! For most of the year I lived near the road to Bethlehem. At three kilometers away, it was so close I could see it every day. On Christmas Eve, I made a trip to Bethlehem. Along with thousands of other pilgrims, of course. It's a very ...
Soil
This is a top pick! ... I visited the Church of the Nativity. First we passed the Bethlehem Peace Center, covered with pictures of martyred Palestinian militants brandishing machine guns (who the Israeli soldiers just killed a few days ago). The Byzantine-era church ...
More Roman ruins
This is a top pick! More Roman ruins. To be honest, I don’t remember the significance of Sebastia. I think it was one of the main gateways into Jerusalem. But another good display of Roman architecture. Not far away, I had the opportunity to work on ...
Whose Land is This?
This is a top pick! ... talk about the situation in Hebron. With the help of the Christian Peacemaker Teams, we agreed to assist with a group of Palestinian journalists. Our first mission was to photograph the site of the perpertrator of the 1994 Cave of the Patriarch ...
The Dead Sea Scrolls
This is a top pick! Now, down to the lowest point on earth - 1,290 feet below sea level. The Dead Sea is 7 times more salty than average seawater. Too harsh for any plant or animal life to exist. Because the water is so dense, bodies float. I ...
Floating in the Dead Sea...simply amazing!
This is a top pick! It never seems to amaze me how easy it is for anyone to float in the Dead Sea. I do remember back in 1987, when I went to the Dead Sea but on the Israeli side, what a weird feeling it is to go into the water and float without needing to do ...
The Tabri Sisters
The Tabri Sisters Last night I met with Salwa and Fadwa Tabri, two sisters who have retired from the Ramallah Friends Boys School (FBS). Salwa is a pianist who played accompaniment for student products, chapel and chorus. ...
An Izmekneh Engagement Party
An Izmekneh Engagement Party It was Thursday night and I was off with the Izmekneh family to a Muslim engagement party for their cousin. I was supposed to go to an engagement party for Hussain's brother last Friday but I was ill and didn't ...
How can I help?
Itinerary: Monday, June 20 Mission work and touring continues. Among the sites we hope to tour during our days staying in Bethlehem are: in the Old City of Jerusalem: Church of the Holy Sepulcher, Mount of Olives, Garden of ...
A Christian Witness
Itinerary: Mission work and touring continues. Among the sites we hope to tour during our days staying in Bethlehem are: in the Old City of Jerusalem: Church of the Holy Sepulcher, Mount of Olives, Garden of Gethsemane, Western ...
Back to the "Ham"
Once again we're back in Bethlehem, our home base if you will. What's really nice is that it is starting to feel like home. Of course, nothing is quite like coming home to your real home, but we're staying in a guest house with a family so it's been ...
To serve rather than be served..
Itinerary: Saturday, June 18 We begin the "work" part of our Mission Trip. This will include physical labor in the soil of Bethlehem and any other projects requiring manual labor that the Church needs. We are there to serve rather than be served, ...
Border crossing
... us we could not leave Egypt to enter Gaza, had the secret police follow us and threaten the family members of our Palestinian friends from another delegation, when they delayed and delayed and delayed our entry even after they were told multiple times by ...
A Day for Freedom
... , or no control by the Israeli military; water and electricity are rationed by the Israeli municipalities, meaning that on the Palestinian side all the buildings have huge water containers on the roof to survive weeks or months without water, while the ...
Good Times!
So as I was thinking about my last few blog entries last night as I was trying to go to sleep, I realized they've all been kinda depressing so far!! I mean, HELLO?! I'm having a blast here and I don't think that's been coming across in my blog posts, so ...
Love Your Enemies
... Today, we met with the founder and president of Holy Land Trust, which is where I’m volunteering, named Sami Awad. He is a Palestinian Christian, but he’s also a US citizen. He was actually born in Kansas City and then his family moved back to ...
Dressing Up in Palestinian Clothes
... , by myself and then with Asma's father. Next I dressed in the traditional red and black embroidery with the traditional Palestinian black and white checked scarf. I felt right at home in this dress. There were many children there enjoying ...
Place of the Patriarchs
... 8217;m afraid I forgot his title, some kind of foreign affairs officer maybe? He was in the Old City meeting with some important Palestinian people I guess, but I think he works at the US Consulate in Tel Aviv. His boss is some big shot, I think maybe the ...
springtime flowers
I left snow on the ground, gray skies and cold weather. But they are all banished here. The skies are mostly sunny, the windows are open for short times during the day and flowers are blooming. Check out some of the flowers from the ...
Goodbye, Gaza
... intifidas, and most recently, John Ging, the head of the UN Relief Works Agency, a humanitarian organization founded to support the Palestinian refugees from the 1948 war. We also heard from a professor from the Islamic University of Gaza, and had a ...
Carter Book Forum
... . "It identifies steps to take related to international law" to gain peace. The second speaker, Jonathan Kuttab, is a Palestinian attorney. He stated that apartheid in South Africa does not describe the separation policy of Israel based on Zionism. The ...
Music Day at Friends Girls School
... soon had the place packed, with crowds standing in the back and the aisles filled with people sitting there. There was a Palestinian ballad about losing the land to the Israeli's sung by a 4th grader (I think-the program was in Arabic so ...
Settlement Visit
... as a nation during the Oslo Peace Accords, that Israel had achieved what they wanted all along, which was recognition by the Palestinian leadership. But really, what they are still looking for is for the world, and for the Arab world in particular, to ...
The book is started!
I went to the Ramallah Friends Meeting Sunday morning. As I sat in the peaceful silence, I felt a sense of all the Palestinian Quakers who used to go to the meeting (it's down to a handful now) and all the Friends School children who attended. ...
Turkish Baths
... out I was from the US they were very interested in me. Next thing I know, the other group is singing and dancing, Palestinian style, to welcome me. Then they started trying to give everyone a turn - including me having my first lesson in a form of ...
My Feet in High Places
... Bethlehem is located in the West Bank, a region under the military domination of Israel but the rule of Palestinian government. The Palestinians face severely restricted travel, must pass through checkpoints, and have a significantly lower standard ...
Only fotos!
JERUSALEM. TOMORROW.
We're heading to THE Holy City TOMORROW!!!! Man oh man I am SO EXCITED!!!!!! We will be there for 6 days, tomorrow to next Wednesday, and I am BEYOND PSYCHED!!!! So the next post will come from the coolest city ever. Get pumped :) Oh and the past few ...
I Met Peter Yarrow
I received the phone call about 11 am from the Director of the Ramallah Friends Schools, Joyce Ajlouny. "I have your first interview for your book. Do you remember "Peter, Paul and Mary," she asked. What a silly question as they are one of my ...