PALESTINE - ISRAEL - JORDAN - SINAI

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

The Ancient Goddesses of Palestine

By Miri – As a child I was fascinated by Greek mythology; the stories about fighting and raging goddesses appealed to me much more than those about the one and only (male) god commanding a guard of mainly male prophets. At the time, I was not familiar with the predecessors of the monotheistic system, that, […]

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The Tale of Jericho’s Oasis Casino

By Miri Like so many other places in Palestine and Israel, Jericho, supposedly the oldest continuously inhabited city of the world, is full of legends and myths, many of which are biblical and endowed with wonders and sacredness, others, especially the more recent ones, are embedded with a less holy aura. Such is the story […]

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Review of a Private Tour

by Fred Schlomka – Today I had an interesting group of five visitors from Switzerland. I picked them up at their Tel Aviv hotel in the early morning and proceeded to Route 5, a large four-lane highway which thrusts deep into the West Bank, due east of Tel Aviv. En route we stopped in the […]

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Jericho in style – Intercontinental Hotel

by Fred Schlomka –My wife and I needed a weekend off so we took the kids and headed off to the Intercontinental Hotel in Jericho. Palestinian President Yasser Arafat built it in the heyday of the Oslo era, complete with a casino that attracted droves of Israelis in the mid-nineties. However it was closed for […]

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