Category: Journals

  • The story of Saeed Abu Salah

    by Laila El-Haddad Saeed Abu Salah is a patient man. Judging from all he has endured during the past four years at least. Abu Salah-40 years old with graying hair and eyes the color of chestnuts, and 20 children from separate two marriages-lives in Gaza’s northernmost region in the farming town of Beit Hanun-nearly as…

  • Destruction and Defiance in the Shadow of Bethlehem

  • What I saw in Jericho or Olmert’s Election Campaign

    By Neta Golan British Chris and I beginning our attempted entry. We were stopped minutes later. Jericho Tuesday March 14th After a four-hour walk around two Israeli checkpoints and an illegal Israeli settlement, we arrived in Jericho to find that the neighborhood around the compound surrounded by Israeli jeeps and Palestinian children throwing stones at…

  • The Ridiculousness of Tel Rumeida

    by Katie Here are a few incidents that happened in Tel Rumeida over the last few weeks. Keep in mind that these anecdotes are only a tiny fraction of the daily insanity happening here. I don’t even blink… The other day the soldiers at the IOF post near the Beit Hadassa settlement were detaining every…

  • Another Fallen Friend and Martyr

    The death of Tom Fox and a true test of solidarity By Joe Carr I first met Tom Fox in Chicago at a Christian Peacemaker Teams’ training and we became good friends through our work together. He was a father with children about my age, and was like an uncle to me. He was my…