PALESTINE - ISRAEL - JORDAN - SINAI

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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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The Origin of the Hebrews

By Inge Etzbach –  Archaeologists on the full spectrum of positions, political or otherwise, do agree that there is no evidence of a forceful conquest of Jericho and Canaan. External material evidence supplies no proof whatsoever of the biblical account of a large-scale and determined invasion of Israelites into Canaan. We now know that the […]

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Criminals!

 by Amos Gvirtz –   The Bedouin citizens of Israel have committed a terrible crime: They were born Bedouin in a Jewish state!   How do I know this? Very simple, the State of Israel has established a police unit whose only task is to fight against its Bedouin citizens. It is called the “Yoav Unit” […]

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Writers Wanted

We pay for all articles accepted. Please take a good look through the blog before responding. Our articles are intended to deepen the understanding of visitors to the country, and also be interesting for people who are “armchair tourists” or just doing some research on the internet. . Articles should be original and short. 6-800 […]

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Voices of the West Bank & Israel

Video by Mark Golden – Mark is an an American Jew in his early 60’s who travelled to Israel in April, 2013 with his wife. he was interested to hear firsthand accounts from both Israelis and Palestinians about their lives in this politically charged country. Traveling to Israel and the West Bank, he made a […]

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Introducing Echoing Yafa – An Audio Walk through Manshiyyah

By Miri –  During the celebrations for the 64th anniversary of Israel’s independence in 2012, a number of left wing activists from the Israeli non-profit organisation “Zochrot” were prevented by the police to hold an alternative event to commemorate the conquest and destruction of more than 400 Palestinian villages and towns through Israeli forces. One […]

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A Brief History of the Ascent of the National-Religious Movements in Israel

By Miri –  During the last Israeli elections in 2013, for the first time in many years, the ultra-orthodox parties, for a long time celebrated as the kingmakers of Israeli politics, did not succeed in forming part of the new government. While many devoted secularists in Israel celebrated the end of the orthodox influence on national […]

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