PALESTINE - ISRAEL - JORDAN - SINAI

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

2019 writing competition

You too can enter the writing competition – Entry page at this link >>______________________________ No Peace Under the Olive Tree   – by  Anna Walczyk – Poland For over a dozen years, every time I travel to the Middle East, and in particular to Israel and Palestine, I hear the sentence “no peace under the olive […]

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A Weekend in Palestine

by Fred Schlomka – My wife Sunita is leaving soon for an extended performing and teaching tour in the USA, so we decided to take a weekend off and spend some time together. For some time I had been wanting to visit the village of Al Aqaba in the north-eastern West Bank, and since they […]

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Caught Up in Conflict – Some Notes on the Case of the Samaritan Community in Palestine/Israel

By Miri “A certain man was going down from Jerusalem to Jericho, and he fell among robbers, who both stripped him and beat him, and departed, leaving him half dead. By chance a certain priest was going down that way. When he saw him, he passed by on the other side. In the same way […]

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Samaritan Museum Mount Grizim

The Samaritan village on Mount Grizim recently opened a new museum that showcases the history and culture of this unique community. Now numbering just 740 people the Samaritan community has withstood millennia of invasions, forced conversions and dispersal. Samaritan Temple on Mount Grizim Part of the ancient Israelite tribes, the Samaritans built their temple on […]

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