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Stop the Waste
Gehenna was the place just outside Jerusalem in New Testament times where fires were said to burn continuously. It was effectively the city rubbish tip and although it may not have been in line with the best environmental...
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Only Improvements on the Ground can help build Momentum towards Peace
What does the outcome of the talks in Egypt between Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas (Abu Mazen) and Israeli Prime Minister Ariel Sharon mean? Of course it is most welcome as a first step, but it is not yet time for...
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Jericho Road
Jerusalem to Jericho could be a dangerous road 2,000 years ago. When Jesus told of a traveller who was attacked by thieves, the listeners would have recognised a familiar scenario. The road led out east through the hills into...
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Planting Hope on Tu B’shevat
"We acknowledge that while our work for justice seems at times futile and always hard, we also know that in it we touch the spirit of others." This is a quotation from the Tu B’shevat Seder that I attended in Jerusalem at the...
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Health and Hope across the Wall
Palestinian patients living in the southeast Jerusalem area have trouble reaching the Augusta Victoria Hospital on the Mount of Olives in East Jerusalem. The following includes an interview with hospital Chief Executive Officer,...
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Soldiers’ Views from Huwwara Checkpoint
“It’s all Abraham’s fault! If he hadn’t had children with two different women, this whole mess would not have occurred,†the young soldier at Huwwara checkpoint said jokingly to my Danish colleague Maria and me as we...
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The Olive Tree Tourist Village
Bethlehem and Beit Jala used to be two distinct towns, with agricultural land stretching between them – and that meant olive groves. Over the last 50 or 60 years more of the land has been built on. In 1948 refugees came, and...
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Olive Oil Production
Mention the Holy Land and you speak of olive trees in the same breath. They are a feature of the landscape; there is the symbolic link with the branch of peace; there is the use of olive wood in carving; and olives are a vital...
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Occupation - Thoughts from the Inside
I had just visited the town hall in Jayyous. I passed several concrete-built sheds that serve as shops. The houses varied from sophisticated affairs with oriental-styled mullions and elegant window-grilles to unfinished concrete...
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Two Worlds Twenty Minutes Apart
Jayyous. A small village in the northwest of the West Bank approximately 20 kilometres from Tel Aviv and the Mediterranean. Some of the villagers support themselves on the profits from their olive groves. The problem is that the...
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