Eye witnesses:
Ecumenical Accompanier's reports
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Energy Renewal at the Sea of Galilee – A Saviour at the World’s lowest Marathon
It must have been somewhere between the 23- and 24-kilometre of the Tiberias Marathon mark when I saw Daniel for the first time in his white shirt and shorts. He wasn’t running or even walking anymore. From behind it looked...
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Kalandia Checkpoint – Monday after the Election
The Israeli authorities eased their restrictions on freedom of movement for Palestinians forced to cross one or several checkpoints in order to get to the polling stations for two days prior to the elections, and on the actual...
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The Hour of the Wolf at the Muqata
It’s midnight. I can hear the sound of gunfire in the distance, like many nights before. My Palestinian friend Rabie, a young journalist, informs me of shootings around the headquarters of the late Palestinian President Yasser...
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Quaker Meeting in Ramallah
I had one foot in a hole three feet deep and red sticky clay balls had rolled past my trouser legs into my boots. My clothes had been lasting four days before a wash and I really didn’t want to turn up at Friends’ School and...
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Fear and Fruit in Yanoun
While standing in front of the fruit shelves in town choosing bananas, Yasser gets the alarming message: Israeli settlers have entered the village of Yanoun.
It has been calm for quite some time in the tiny village of Yanoun,...
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And God planted a Garden
When God made the world, because he is eternal and doesn’t have to work to time schedules in the same way that mortals do, I think he must have paused when he created he Cremisan valley. He must have spent that much longer,...
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Faith and Politics dominate Discussion among Jewish, Christian, and Muslim Young People
Leora Ezrachi, 22, Anna-Liza Younan, 22, and Ghaleb Nashashibi, 24, have a lot in common. They’re young, live in Jerusalem, and share a strong belief in God. They’re modern in their mode of dressing and thinking and speak in...
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Bethlehem – House of Bread
It isn’t that I have forgotten a lot of Hebrew words: I have to confess that I didn’t learn many in the first place. But even after all these years I am hardly likely to forget that the name Bethlehem literally means...
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Right of Return
Just two days after visiting Al Walaje, the village that had been destroyed but had reinvented itself and was now under threat of demolition again, I found myself in another village that had been a casualty of 1948. This is...
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The Folks who live on the Hill
Someday,
We’ll build a home on a hilltop high, you and I.
Shiny and new, a cottage that two can fill;
And we’ll be pleased to be called
The folks who live on the hill.
I suppose it depends what hill we...
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