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We Teach Life and Love: Dispatches from Aida Refugee Camp

– by Mustafa Alaraj –30/10/2022 Mustafa Alaraj is a resident and community advocate from the Aida Refugee Camp north of Bethlehem in occupied Palestine. He is one of the directors of the Aida Youth Center and a tour guide. The following dispatch is a transcript of an interview conducted with him by Erez Bleicher, discussing conditions […]

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CENTRAL BUS STATION TEL AVIV TOUR

Tel Aviv Central Bus Station

– by Alexander Jones – Stop me if this sounds familiar. You’re newly arrived in a foreign land. You’ve just stepped off a bus in Tel Aviv and need to get outside, eat a meal and find your hotel. The only thing between you and a soft pillow is the daunting maze that is the […]

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Movie reviews – ‘The Present’ and ‘White Eye’

Echoing the 2013 Academy Awards, when both an Israeli and a Palestinian film were nominated for the ‘Best Documentary’ Oscar, in 2021 we again have two films from our the-land-of-Green-Olive going head-to-head. This year, Farah Nabulsi’s The Present and Tomer Shushan’s White Eye are among the five films up for an Oscar in the ‘Best […]

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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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Reflections on my Trip to Israel/Palestine

2019 writing competition  – by Dorit Miles –  As an Israeli born, curious about the Palestinians for years, I never expected to be able to go to the “other side”. The opportunity presented itself and I jumped on it. In January of 2016, I joined a group of interfaith travelers to Israel /Palestine. I decided […]

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The right of return

– by Green Olive staff –  To enter the Aida refugee camp in Bethlehem, residents and visitors alike pass under a massive sculpture of a key. The key sits atop a keyhole-shaped archway over a main road which must be eight metres high. While international tourists and even many Israeli Jews might fail to understand […]

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Jaffa to Gaza – A Short Cycling Odyssey – Day 2

– by Fred Schlomka – DAY 2 • 19th May, 2017Zikkim Dunes – Gaza Border area – Sderot – Tel Aviv (Israel)About 2am, after fitfully dozing off and on for a few hours, I finally have had enough of the nearby beach party. The Mizrachi pop music is blasting away with no end in sight. […]

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Aida Refugee Camp – Bethlehem

 – by Mutasem – Aida is a Palestinian refugee camp situated 2 kilometers north of the historic centre of Bethlehem in with a population of approximately 5,498 refugees. Named after a famous coffeehouse (maqhah) located on the site in the early 1940s, Aida camp was established in 1950 by refugees from the Jerusalem and Hebron […]

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Multiple Displacement – The Case of Palestinian Refugees in Syria

By Miri –  Since their forced displacement from Palestine in 1948, the scattered Palestinian refugee community has been severely affected by pretty much all of the major conflicts that have been shaking the region, many times leading them to flee their newly established homes yet another time. Escaping the violence in their host countries, be […]

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Eritrean Refugees en Route to Israel

By Miri – I ran away from Eritrea seven months ago to avoid the army service. I intended to find refuge in Sudan, but when I arrived in Sudan, crossing the border by foot, with several other Eritreans, some Bedouins arrived with a vehicle and kidnapped us. Some of us succeeded in running away but […]

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Speaking Truth to Power – The Life and Legacy of Edward Said

By Miri –  Edward and his sister Rosemarie, 1940 It has been ten years since the passing of Edward Said. He was a cultural critic, an academic, a writer, an intellectual, a musician and probably one of the most powerful voices of the Palestinian cause.  Said was born in Jerusalem in 1935 to a prosperous […]

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Returning to Jaffa

By Miri –  When I’m guiding tours in Jaffa and Tel Aviv I usually tell the participants that the best thing I can do to further their understanding of what is going on in this region, is by complicating issues. Rather than providing them with a logical or linear version of history, my aim is […]

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