Category: Journals

  • Two Days in Bethlehem

    by Chris and Carl Our affinity group members, Mike, Ronise (who is deaf) and Jennie went to the Deaf School in Bethlehem. The school serves boys and girls from 6 months to 15 years old. It was a well equipped modern school run by the Catholic Church. The school is currently closed because of the…

  • Internationals Help Deliver Food & Stop Bullets

    By Jill Dreier What the UN refuses to do in Palestine: Internationals Help Deliver Food & Stop Bullets ‘No here we have nothing to live for, so we don’t care, but YOU, you have to return to tell the world what is happening here, so YOU take care” So, before I get started about yesterday,…

  • Leaving Balata

    by Amanda D. I’m on the plane home. Much as I want to see people I’m not sure how to talk to them. Much as I wanted to go home and do laundry and take a bath I’m figuring out how and when I can get back. I was sad yesterday to leave the family…

  • If I don’t write now…

    by Susan Barclay I find a few moments to write not because it is something that I even have the time to do, but more because if I don’t write now, I am afraid to lose the precious, tragic stories and sights I have witnessed in the last few weeks. During the past weeks I…

  • Life in the villages of Nablus

    By Nat After tea at Abu Fadi’s house, we went to Abu Kamel’s house to have breakfast (there was some competition between these two cousins as to whose house we were to have breakfast at), we had a tour of Salim: the water tower that had been ransacked, the house that had been occupied, the…