Posted in Jerusalem, Media, Middle East, Palestinian Authority, Peace Talks, Politics, Ramallah, Refugees/Refugee Camps, Settlements, The Wall, Uncategorized, United States on Sep 27th, 2011
Last Friday, September 23, people crammed into Ramallah’s Clock Square to listen live to Mahmoud Abbas, the President of the Palestinian Authority (PA), speak at the United Nations. Abbas presented his case for Palestine’s admission to the UN as the world’s 194th country. Throughout the speech, the crowd erupted in applause numerous times and long [...]
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Just last week, Israel and the Palestinians agreed to resume indirect “peace” negotiations. Even before these talks began, the thought of George Mitchell (U.S. Special Envoy to the Middle East) shuttling messages between Ramallah and Jerusalem was a distant image in the rearview mirror of Vice President Joe Biden’s car, as he traveled to Ben [...]
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This is part two of my weekend adventures, so be sure to read part one below. With no class today because of the holiday, we continued our weekend of traveling. Jason and I met a guy at the University the other week who has been wanting to take us on a trip to Bethelehem and [...]
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I am going to split this post into two parts, part one for my Dead Sea trip on Saturday and part two for my Bethlehem adventure today. Where to begin. What an action packed weekend, as we had today (Monday) off for Prophet Mohammad’s birthday, so we had three days and decided to do some [...]
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Last night we went to two different worlds, traveling from the West Bank to Israel and spending the evening in West Jerusalem. We left Ramallah and drove about 10 minutes to the checkpoint, where we were greeted rudely by a soldier, who must have been in her mid-20s. Here we were, a group of 20-something [...]
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Update: I wrote in this post about how the majority of the West Bank was on strike on Saturday over the planned demolition of 88 homes in Jerusalem. Today, the demolitions began, as two Palestinian homes were demolished, without notice or warning. The Israeli army just shows up at the houses, tells the residents to [...]
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