May 6, 2011
Filmed and produced by Cat Rabenstine for the Christian Peacemaker Teams in Palestine.
January 20, 2011
I’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 […]
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January 10, 2011
Today 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 […]
January 10, 2011
Watch 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.
January 8, 2011
BY: 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, […]
January 4, 2011
CPTnet 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 […]
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December 31, 2010
Palestine 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 […]
December 6, 2010
This week, Christmas stores have popped up throughout Bethlehem. My favorite Christmas goodies 1. Â Para-gliding, blow-up Santa 2. Â Mix-CD of Arabic and international Christmas tunes, homemade by the shopkeeper himself and on sale for $3. 3. Â A tree that showers itself with fake snow. Christmas cheer! The city is covered in Christmas lights, from lamp […]
December 3, 2010
CPTnet Volume 36, Issue 3 A newsletter written by members of the Christian Peacemaker Teams This autumn, a local businessman alerted three CPTers to the presence of a group of soldiers outside the Ibrahimi School, located in the heart of the Old City. Upon arrival, the school principal informed CPT that a settler boy, around seven years old, […]
November 30, 2010
PRINCETON, N.J. — Princeton University students voted Monday in a referendum by a pro-Palestine student group on whether to expand the school’s hummus offerings. The student group Princeton Committee for Palestine wants university-run stores to offer alternative brands of the Middle Eastern chickpea dip because they say the only brand available is linked to human […]
