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18,000 homes Campaign

Get the <a href=”http://www.widgetbox.com/widget/icahd-banner”>ICAHD Banner</a> widget and many other <a href=”http://www.widgetbox.com/”>great free widgets</a> at <a href=”http://www.widgetbox.com”>Widgetbox</a>! The 18,000 Homes Campaign was a project of ICAHD: the Israeli Committee Against House Demolitions between 2007 and 2009. The project publicized the history and ongoing policy of home demolitions by the Israeli government in Israel, the West Bank […]

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Israel Palestine West Bank Maps

➞ Back to Index of Maps. This sequence of maps takes you through the development of the political geography of the region. You can download individual maps or download the complete package of maps which includes all the maps below plus an additional 9 maps. This is a 10.5 MB file so it may take […]

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Hiking in the Holy Land

One of my highlights during April was hiking in the West Bank. A group of hikers was trekking the Nativity Trail from Nazareth to Bethlehem and I joined them for a day, beginning at the Huwara Checkpoint at Nablus to the hilltop village of Duma just a little North-east of Ramallah. It was about 20 […]

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The American-Arab Anti-Discrimination Committee Complains to US Treasury Department

original article Road with wall down the middle – Anata, East Jerusalem One side for Palestinians. One side for Israelis The American-Arab Anti- Discrimination Committee (ADC) has filed multiple administrative complaints with the US Department of the Treasury, including the Internal Revenue Service (IRS). the organization requested investigations into organizations claiming tax-exempt status under section […]

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Lonely Planet / National Geographic Movie

I had an interesting weekend helping Lonely Planet TV and National Geographic with an episode of their upcoming 13-part series of travel programs. They are producing each show with Lonely Planet Authors. For the Israel/Palestine episode, Amelia Thomas was the host. I met the video crew a little south of Be’er Sheva in the Negev […]

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Olive Products Festival – Jenin

The Palestinian Agricultural Development Association is hosting an Olive Oil Festival on the 18th-19th March. The venue is the Al-Shaheed Na’eem Khader Center at the Agricultural Relief headquarters in Al-Zahabdeh in Jenin. The Governor of Jenin, Mr, Musa Qaddoura is co-sponsoring the event which is funded by the European Union The opening of the event […]

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American Friends Service Committee ADSC Video

This short short video by the American Friends Service Committee brings home to all of us the impact of Israel’s colonization of the West Bank.

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Gaza CLOSED ZONE video

Yoni Goodman, director of animation for the Academy Award-nominated film, “Waltz with Bashir”,  Now brings you ‘Closed Zone’. Despite declarations that it has “disengaged” from the Gaza Strip, Israel maintains control of the Strip’s overland border crossings, territorial waters, and air space. This includes substantial, albeit indirect, control of the Rafah Crossing. During the past […]

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Sebastia is waiting for Tourists

Back in the 1999s the tour buses clogged the parking lot of Sebastia in the Northern West Bank. Not any more. This ancient Roman city, and the adjacent modern Palestinian village are victims of Isreal’s encapsulation of Palestinian areas though hundreds of checkpoints, barriers, and restricted roads. The tourists used to come mainly from Israeli […]

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Israeli Tourism Ministry Boost Public Relations

Editorial from Fred Schlomka:Hopefully some of the tourist traffic generated from this public relations campaign will result in some people visiting the Palestinian Territories. Unfortunately the entire tourist industry in Israel seems to steer people away from the West Bank, and tour agencies and Israeli guides often advise visitors not to to there. TOURISM MINISTRY […]

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Negev Tours to meet Bedouin

Most tours to the Negev are pretty standard fare. However there is much more to the Negev than visiting a staged Bedouin tent where a dutiful Bedouin employee will serve tea. The vast majority of Bedouin have long since given up living in tents. Most of the 165,000 Nevev Bedouin now live in shantytowns, or […]

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CBS Video Israeli Occupation

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