Category: Journals

  • Ballad of a Small Victory

    by Karl Dallas The Battle of Nablus tune: English traditional, “The Bold Princess Royal” On the last day of June in two thousand and two In the city of Nablus the pleasures were few The Israeli army had invaded the town And the people were terrorised by the tanks roaming round. We were ten internationals…

  • International Activists Reach the Door of the Church of the Nativity

    By Larry Hales We walked right in to Manger Square–“right through the front door.” The writer in me wants to create some suspense, but I am ecstatic–my heart continues to beat at the rate it was when we were walking through. We were planning the night before and were planning around another demonstration led by…

  • Voices in the Wilderness

    By Jeff Guntzel We left for Ramallah yesterday morning. In order to enter the city, our little group had to avoid the Israeli checkpoint by walking (and sometimes running) through the brush just south of the checkpoint. Once we were safely inside the military zone, a taxi driver with whom we had made advance arrangements…