PALESTINE - ISRAEL - JORDAN - SINAI

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New fieldworker

Cody O’Rourke walking Palestinian kindergarteners to school in Hebron as part of his work with the Christian Peacemaker Teams. Green Olive Tours takes pride in being linked to field workers across Israel and Palestine – specifically those areas where we give our educational tours. It’s essential that we have a pulse of the community to […]

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The Dubious Pleasures of Being an Israeli where Israelis are Unwelcome

by Eldad Brin –  To begin with, this trip was all about getting away. It was about time on the other side of Asia, travelling from one mega-city to the other, covering six cities in five weeks, immersing myself in the exoticism of foreign cultures, foreign cuisines and foreign cityscapes. I decided – and it […]

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Volunteering to Make a Difference

by Angela Hersch – One of the greatest things about volunteering is that you get to walk in someone else’s shoes.  That is exactly what happens with Green Olive Tours Volunteer Program – a time to walk in the shoes of someone else, to help them shoulder their burden and understand more of their world. […]

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Should Warmongering Win over Peace – Even in Tourism?

By Fred Schlomka –  Shocking News! Green Olive Tours has dropped to number 2 on TripAdvisor, the world’s most widely read travel website. Who has beaten us? You’ll need to take a seat while you digest this. Caliber 3, an Israeli shooting range that describes itself as a “Counter Terror and Security Academy”, has taken […]

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Gaza Context

by Yahav Zohar – The media tends to juxtapose Hamas’s rockets against Israel’s bombings so that it almost seemed in this war one should support one side or the other based on its ethics of warfare.  War was made to look like a game conducted and judged by some rules of fair play. There is […]

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War on the Poor

by Yahav Zohar – “Every gun that is made, every warship launched, every rocket fired signifies, in the final sense, a theft from those who hunger and are not fed, those who are cold and are not clothed. This world in arms is not spending money alone. It is spending the sweat of its laborers, […]

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Next Summer in Gaza

by Chema Arraiza –  There is something sacred and untouchable about kids and the summer. Summer is the time for endless evenings, for cycling, jumping on a river, a beach, a lake, for staying up late. Summer is pure life. It is freedom, the scenery of our best childhood memories. Swimming, laughing, discovering love… Life […]

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Hiking in Wadi Qelt

by Hannah Barkan –  Wadi Qelt, also known as the Prat River, is a beautiful oasis of waterfalls and towering rocks, located deep inside the Jordan Valley, just outside the West Bank city of Jericho. Impossibly hot in the summer and suffering from flash floods in the winter it is not always possible to hike […]

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The Judaisation of History

by Inge Etzbach – It is clear that over hundreds or thousands of years, tribes of any country will mingle with their neighbors, their conquerors and their captives. In Canaan, Hittites, Edomites, Moabites, Phoenicians and Ammonites formed the core population living in the area since prehistoric times. The area was settled from the Bronze Age […]

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Letter to friends

by Erella – To our friends, I have already been sitting for an hour, staring at the empty word page and not finding words that would describe the pain – the pain of those of us who see straight. The pain of the sober, of those who knew that the bottled demon grows and grows, […]

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Israel – The State for the Jews

by Marc Goldberg –At the end of the nineteenth century and into the early twentieth the Jews of Europe found themselves standing on a precipice. Persecution, both state sanctioned and otherwise, was making life intolerable. Simultaneously advances in technology, most notably in transport and mass communications ensured that there were escape routes available such as […]

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Jerusalem and Nicosia: Reflections on Division and Unification

by Eldad Brin –  By far one of the thorniest standing issues between the Israelis and Palestinians is that of the future status of Jerusalem. The Palestinians, both Christians and Muslims, venerate the city, and above all the Noble Sanctuary which is Temple Mount in its midst. Other than that, Jerusalem constitutes the biggest Palestinian […]

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