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Bedouin Village to be Demolished – Again

 – by Amos Gvirtz –  Great anxiety. Israeli citizens are sitting in their homes, as demolition hovering over their heads. (Orders that may materialize each day). What will you? Where will they go? Where to live? No one is offering them alternative accommodation. They do not settlers who settled on land that is not theirs, […]

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The Almighty Military Order

 – by Sam Bahour – 29th October, 2016Originally published at ePalestine. If your Palestinian neighbors and friends seem slightly on edge today, please excuse them. October 29th brings back horrific memories to Palestinians everywhere, young and old. It was 60 years ago today that a scene of cold-blooded murder fell upon the hill-top Palestinian village […]

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Biking 2016 – Colorado – Day 1

10th October • Colorado, USABoulder – Boulder Reservoir – Carter Lake42 miles (67.5km.) biked After ten days of family time and visiting with Grandson Logan, I am ready for a couple of days of R & R. The goal for this first US excursion on the bike is to seek out the real ‘Coloradan’, Who […]

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Lighting up the World of the Bedouin

– by Fred Schlomka – In 2015 my wife Sunita and I spent 5 months cycling around Europe, taking a sabbatical, and raising money for various causes. Some of you reading this article may have helped sponsor our trip. We thank everyone for their generosity. One of the funded projects came to fruition last week […]

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PayPal and Palestine

 – Sam Bahour – First published at Linkedin – #PayPal4Palestine As a Palestinian-American management consultant in Ramallah, Palestine, I advise my Palestinian clients living under Israeli military occupation to use world-class software and online services, assuring them that it will help them enter global markets. Some of these clients are not-for-profit outfits, like the Palestinian Circus […]

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Biking 2016 – Shetland – Day 2 & 3

– by Fred Schlomka –  Day 2 & 3 • 9th & 10th August55 km. North Sea – Lerwick – Yell76km. Total biked Bit of a quiet day today.I’m up early on the ferry and am greeted by a full rainbow starting the southern tip of Shetland, arching over the sky to some distant point […]

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Biking 2016 – Shetland – Day 1

– by Fred Schlomka Day 1 – 8th AugustTel Aviv – Frankfurt – Aberdeen – North Sea11km. Total biked Long day. Not much biking. Sunita drove me to the airport. Forgot the water bottles so we backtracked and picked them up at the apartment. Actually I carry one water bottle and one small Stanley thermos […]

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Hamifal

– by Yahav Zohar Jerusalem, an urban planner once told me, is not properly a city but a collection of courtyards. With every turn, with every alley, you come into another world, an entirely different story. In such a fragmented city there seems to be no real cultural mainstream beyond government funded seasonal festivals that […]

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Biking 2016 – Palestine/Israel/Jordan Day 2

by Fred Schlomka – – Day 2 – 14th June –– 37km. – En Gedi – Neve Zohar –– 91km. Total biked – Pretty uneventful day. I slept fitfully due to the gusty wind, but managed to get up at 3.30am. Took an hour to make coffee and break camp. Sunrise was OK, but I’ve been […]

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Biking 2016 – Palestine/Jordan – Day 1

 – by Fred Schlomka – 13th JuneJerusalem — Almog Junction –  En Gedi54km. I spent the night of the 12th at a friend’s house and awoke at 3am to begin the trip. I drove through almost empty streets and passed through the Mount Scopus Tunnel into the Judean Desert. The ridge opposite was alive with […]

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‘Balance’ in Palestine and Israel

– by Fred Schlomka I received a phone call at 7am this morning from the USA, from a Jewish family seeking a tour of the West Bank. Uppermost in their minds was the notion that this should be a ‘balanced tour’. I asked what they meant by ‘balance’ and received a vague answer about giving […]

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The Occupation is Over – Isn’t it?

By Fred Schlomka –First published in Mondoweiss – The term ‘Occupation’ has become almost a cliché in describing Israel’s presence in the territories conquered in 1967. Within Israeli society, the word is little used anymore ( Hebrew: כיבוש).  Many maps published in Israeli school textbooks no longer show the ‘Green Line’, but through various graphical techniques, […]

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