Introduction to CPT – Palestine
May 6, 2011 No CommentsFilmed and produced by Cat Rabenstine for the Christian Peacemaker Teams in Palestine.
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Stories from the Holy Land
January 20, 2011 1 CommentI’ve lived in the Holy Land for the last seven months. This is my last week in Bethlehem before I head to India for a month, so I’ve been taking care of business. My apartment is nearly packed up: a pile of donations, a pile to leave with friends and a pile to take with ...
One foot in, one foot out – a tour of a Palestinian village
January 10, 2011 No CommentsToday I took a walk through a friend’s village near Bethlehem. The sky was blue and spotted with clouds. It was chilly but the sun peaked through with surprising radiance. First, he (let’s call him Ahmed) showed me a 4×4 inch cement track that follows one entire length of the village, coming within yards of ...
Footage of Palestinian refugees from 1950, “Sands of Sorrow”
January 10, 2011 No CommentsWatch Sands of Sorrow, a 1950 video about Palestinian refugees created by the Council for Relief of Palestine Arab Refugees, to see footage of Palestinian refugees soon after the 1948 mass evacuation of Palestinians from their homeland.
The nature of Palestinian sovereignty
January 8, 2011 No CommentsBY: Mkhaimar Abusada for Bitter Lemons The Arab Peace Initiative, which was adopted by the Arab League at its summit meeting in Beirut in 2002, is a comprehensive peace initiative first proposed by then-Crown Prince Abdullah of Saudi Arabia, and re-endorsed at the Riyadh summit in 2007. The initiative attempts to end the Arab-Israel conflict, ...
AT-TUWANI REPORT: The Dangerous Road to Education. Palestinian Students Suffer Under Settler Violence and Military Negligence
January 4, 2011 No CommentsCPTnet Digest 4 January 2011 A newsletter written by members of Christian Peacemaker Teams and Operation Dove. Operation Dove (Nonviolent Peace Corps of Association “Comunit” Papa Giovanni XXIII) and Christian Peacemaker Teams (CPT) announce the publication of the 2009-2010 report on the Israeli military escort to the Palestinian schoolchildren from the villages of Tuba and Maghayir al-Abeed. An ...
Bethlehem shepherds, Operation Cast Lead, and a rogue state
December 31, 2010 No CommentsPalestine Today: A Reality of Justice Denied Media with Conscience On December 24, Mondoweiss co-editor Adam Horowitz wrote: “Israeli military kills 20-year old Gazan for herding animals too close to buffer zone.” On December 23, Israeli forces shot and killed Salama Abu Harhish without warning while herding sheep and goats in Beit Lahya. Civilized nations ...
Postcard From Palestine
December 19, 2010 No CommentsPublished in The Nation Christopher Hayes | October 14, 2010 Hebron The first thing you notice when you drive into Hebron is the lack of cars. Since 1997 this second-largest Palestinian city in the West Bank, the only one with an Israeli settlement in its midst, has been formally divided. Within the Israeli section, which ...
SOUTH HEBRON HILLS: Israeli military demolishes three cisterns and two wells in arid region
December 19, 2010 No CommentsCPTnet 17 December 2010 A newsletter written by members of the Christian Peacemaker Teams. SOUTH HEBRON HILLS On 14 December 2010, the Israeli military demolished three water cisterns and two wells in the arid and hilly Khashem Ad Daraj/Hathaleen region, about twenty-six km southeast of Hebron/al-Khalil on Tuesday. The military gave no reason for the destruction of the ...
The beginnings of Christmas in Bethlehem
December 6, 2010 No CommentsThis week, Christmas stores have popped up throughout Bethlehem. My favorite Christmas goodies 1. Para-gliding, blow-up Santa 2. Mix-CD of Arabic and international Christmas tunes, homemade by the shopkeeper himself and on sale for $3. 3. A tree that showers itself with fake snow. Christmas cheer! The city is covered in Christmas lights, from lamp ...