PALESTINE - ISRAEL - JORDAN - SINAI

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2019 writing competition

You too can enter the writing competition – Entry page at this link >>______________________________ Reflections – by Halcyon Clark, Canada – 2017 was a year anticipated with excitement as I planned to celebrate my 50th birthday in the Holy Land. After decades of struggle and failure, I wanted to experience a reward of sorts, or […]

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A Tale of Two Presidents

President George Washington’s 1790 letter emancipating the Jews of the United States. – by Samuel J. Aronson –  Throughout 1789 and 1790 George Washington was traveling across the nascent United States “to acquire knowledge of the face of the Country, the growth and Agriculture thereof, and the temper and disposition of the Inhabitants towards the […]

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2019 writing competition

You too can enter the writing competition – Entry page at this link >>______________________________ Run – by Hannah Redekop, Canada – Who knew that a soccer ball had so much power? A few dozen patches, some thread, and compressed air suddenly opened the doors of Hebron’s Old Town neighbourhood to me. I followed the kids […]

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2019 writing competition

You too can enter the writing competition – Entry page at this link >>______________________________ Surfing the same waves – by Carolina Maltese, UK – Israel historical and political background has always fascinated me and the more I learned about it through books, newspapers and documentaries, the more I knew I had to go see it […]

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2019 writing competition

You too can enter the writing competition – Entry page at this link >>______________________________I Found Myself in Palestine– by Khadija Jones, UK – Perplexed by an identity crisis as a British born Muslim with a mix of Eastern and Western values and searching for a greater purpose I embarked on my journey to Israel and […]

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2019 writing competition

You too can enter the writing competition – Entry page at this link >>______________________________Knowing Becomes Understanding: 8 Days in Occupied Palestine – by Christa Christaki, Australia –  How can I express both the heartbreak and happiness I feel since spending eight days in occupied Palestine? How can I convey the paradoxical emotions of anger and […]

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2019 writing competition

You too can enter the writing competition – Entry page at this link >>______________________________This entry will not win. – Nofel Nawras, UK – These lands that appear to be called by this name and that are in truth, the one land, Mother Earth. There will be no peace, in Israel, Palestine or anywhere else. There […]

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2019 writing competition

You too can enter the writing competition – Entry page at this link >>______________________________Understanding the landscape – Sandra Manzella, Italy – Here we are, silently scanning the landscape. We’re standing in the shadow of the UN observation point in Jerusalem, from which we can have a good view of the Old City and of East […]

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2019 Writing Competition

You too can enter the writing competition – Entry page at this link >>______________________________Olives and Occupation – by Lesley Mannering, Australia – I don’t normally even go to the shops alone, so my friends and were shocked when I told them I was off to Palestine, by myself. Going was THE best thing I ever […]

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2019 writing competition

You too can enter the writing competition – Entry page at this link >>______________________________Two postcards from the Walls  – by Donata Lorenzetti, Italy– Greetings from Ramallah  It’s damn hot this afternoon in Ramallah. It’s July, July 2014. An unbelievable hot month. We abandoned the chaos of the city center to reach the quietness of the […]

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2019 writing competition

You too can enter the writing competition – Entry page at this link >>______________________________ 2 sides of the coin  – by Leo.M Jeyaraj, Canada – By trade, I am a Physician Anesthesiologist and work in a busy tertiary teaching hospital in Canada. The Canadian population is diverse and represents every faith, colour, race and creed. […]

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2019 writing competition

You too can enter the writing competition – Entry page at this link >>______________________________ Encounters  – by Jim Minton, United Kingdom – We stumbled into the bar to shelter from the early evening rain which had begun as we walked up from the Damascus Gate. I’d forgotten that with the time difference the English Sunday […]

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