PALESTINE - ISRAEL - JORDAN - SINAI

Off the beaten track tours • Visit sites • Meet locals • Discuss Human Rights & Politics

Remembering the Holocaust in Jerusalem

 – by Yahav Zohar – ‘No’, said the policeman, ‘you can’t come through’. ‘But we live here, we need to get home’. ‘The whole area’s closed. If you wait here maybe I can get someone to escort you home in 15 or 20 minutes.’ It was cold, we were hungry, my daughter was crying. The […]

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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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Al-Aqsa & Temple Mount

By Yahav Zohar – Jews say God threw a rock into the void and by the circular ripples emanating from this contact created the world. That rock, the Foundation Stone, still lies at the center of the world. From it, underground, extend hidden channels that carry heavenly plenty to the ends of the earth, giving […]

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Dustcloud

By Yahav Zohar – September 2015 – For the last few days fine dust has replaced much of the air in  parts of Syria, Lebanon, Jordan and Israel-Palestine. Media has referred to it as a dust-storm, and responded mostly with photos of pedestrians in surgical masks, set against the yellow-grey apocalyptic sky-scape. Photo: NASA But […]

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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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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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A Brief Modern History of the Palestine / Israel Conflict

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by Yahav Zohar & the Green Olive TeamOttoman Period Israel and Palestine are two names for the same place, claimed by both the Zionist and Palestinian national movements. Despite often heard claims, this is not an ancient problem. For hundreds of years of Ottoman rule, the ethnic and religious groups here lived together in […]

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Review of Sahar Khalifeh’s book, “The End of Spring”

by Yahav Zohar – “The End of Spring” is the only book I’ve read by prolific novelist Sahar Khalifeh. I’ve heard and read that it is not her best, and I am inclined to agree that as a novel it is far from perfect. Characters tend to be roughly sketched and bordering on stereotype, the […]

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Review of Khalil Nakhleh’s book, ‘Globalized Palestine’

by Yahav Zohar – A recent BBC news report tells of what may turn out to be the world’s largest ghost town- Nova Cidade de Kilamba, 30 kilometers outside the Angolan capital of Luanda, is set to house some Nova Cidade de Kilamba 500,000 people in colorful modern apartment blocks,  but nobody is moving in. […]

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Passageway of Civilizations

By Yahav Zohar, Senior Tour Guide – Green Olive Tours Visitors to Israel/Palestine are often struck by the variety and proximity of its landscapes, alongside the incredible richness of its archeology and history. One hour’s drive will take you from sandy  beaches through  fertile planes up into the forested hills and down the other side […]

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The Anis Hamadeh Phenomenon

Anis Hamadeh is part of that rare breed known as a renaissance man with heart. He is a singer and a poet, an artist and a journalist, performs satirical comedy, and has an amazing website called Anis Online. Anis Online is a journalistic art website in German, English, French and Arabic with over 2000 pages. […]

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