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The last thing I expected to discover in a land defined by settlements, segregation, intimidation and a lack of forgiveness – by Peter Marks – I traveled to Israel and Palestine for the first time at age 36, but I’ve dreamed of visiting it for decades. While I do not consider myself a particularly religious […]
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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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– by Alexander Jones, Green Olive VP – Let’s begin with a big ‘thank you’, a giant ‘toda’ and a huge ‘shoukran’. Our Kickstarter campaign to fund the second film in our Homeland Insecurity series was an overwhelming success and with your support, we raised over US$11000. Keeping in mind there are a lot of […]
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You too can enter the writing competition – Entry page at this link >>______________________________ A Place Called Palestine– by Alice Yu – Have you ever wondered what it would be like to not have the freedom to travel the world, or even to travel within your own country? I asked myself these questions when I […]
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You too can enter the writing competition – Entry page at this link >>______________________________An Earthian in Palestine– by Amber Johansen – It is August. The sun is rising in a pool of amber and gold, the last tinges of charcoal are smudged away and the Mediterranean coast is bathed in a warm glow. The morning […]
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You too can enter the writing competition – Entry page at this link >>______________________________ Take the chance and visit West Bank – by Lysi Anne, Brazil – Last year, I had an opportunity to visit West Bank on a tour. Indeed, it was an incredible experience. I remember that as soon as we left Jerusalem […]
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2019 writing competition – by Mary Niesluchowska – How did I know I was on a flight from Poland to Israel? All those black fedoras clogging up the x-ray machine! I arrived in Tel Aviv at 3:30am where the airport seemed to be the liveliest place in town. Everything was open and there were crowds […]
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– by Alex Jones – Welcome to the first in a series of film reviews which will highlight some of the most interesting issues facing our region. Watching movies and reading books about somewhere you visited is a great way to reminisce and avoid forgetting the places you went, the things you saw and the […]
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– by Fred Schlomka –A letter to American FriendsThe January 2019 opening of Israel’s new segregated West Bank highway was a wakeup call to all defenders of liberty and democracy, yet it’s unclear if the international public, especially Jewish Americans, fully understand the implications of transportation segregation in the Occupied West Bank. Does the Israeli […]
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– by Alex Jones – When I was a kid, we celebrated Christmas by opening gifts on morning of the 25th of December. I never questioned this, and it seemed the most natural thing to do considering everyone around me did the same thing and this was marked on our calendars as ‘Christmas Day’. But […]
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– by Tanner McCaskie – Our class took a trip to the Holy Land to study the country, its people and the status of the ‘conflict’. One of the most important days of our expedition was our trip to Hebron. We left Jaffa at 7am and drove through Bethlehem, a city located in the central […]
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