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Playing for Change

This is a great project, Inspiring and bringing hope to milions around the world though music. The Playing for Change organization now has a band on the road and CDs and DVDs are available online.

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Settlement Tours – Christian? Tours

I came accross this video clip from Al Jezeera recently. It highlights the organized way that supporters of the West Bank Settlements are influencing Israelis and Jewish visitors to the country. These tours are the counterpoint to the tours we promote on this site. Their intention is to build support within Israeli society and forever […]

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West Bank Segregated Roads

by Fred Schlomka –  The original version of this article was published in the Los Angeles Jewish Observer © Foundation for Middle East PeaceDownload Map Despite the new White House administration’s adamant refusal to accept any more settlement construction President Obama has allowed USAID to continue funding the segregated road network that links the settlements […]

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New York Times-False Hope for West Bank Economy

Both the New York Times and the Israeli newspaper Ha’aretz published articles recently touting an economic revival in the West Bank, Nablus in particular. In ‘Signs of Hope Emerge in the West Bank‘, Ethan Bronner writes that the opening of movie theaters and deployment US-trained police are creating conditions of calm and optimism. However despite […]

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18,000 homes Campaign

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Israel Palestine West Bank Maps

➞ Back to Index of Maps. This sequence of maps takes you through the development of the political geography of the region. You can download individual maps or download the complete package of maps which includes all the maps below plus an additional 9 maps. This is a 10.5 MB file so it may take […]

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Hiking in the Holy Land

One of my highlights during April was hiking in the West Bank. A group of hikers was trekking the Nativity Trail from Nazareth to Bethlehem and I joined them for a day, beginning at the Huwara Checkpoint at Nablus to the hilltop village of Duma just a little North-east of Ramallah. It was about 20 […]

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The American-Arab Anti-Discrimination Committee Complains to US Treasury Department

original article Road with wall down the middle – Anata, East Jerusalem One side for Palestinians. One side for Israelis The American-Arab Anti- Discrimination Committee (ADC) has filed multiple administrative complaints with the US Department of the Treasury, including the Internal Revenue Service (IRS). the organization requested investigations into organizations claiming tax-exempt status under section […]

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Lonely Planet / National Geographic Movie

I had an interesting weekend helping Lonely Planet TV and National Geographic with an episode of their upcoming 13-part series of travel programs. They are producing each show with Lonely Planet Authors. For the Israel/Palestine episode, Amelia Thomas was the host. I met the video crew a little south of Be’er Sheva in the Negev […]

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Olive Products Festival – Jenin

The Palestinian Agricultural Development Association is hosting an Olive Oil Festival on the 18th-19th March. The venue is the Al-Shaheed Na’eem Khader Center at the Agricultural Relief headquarters in Al-Zahabdeh in Jenin. The Governor of Jenin, Mr, Musa Qaddoura is co-sponsoring the event which is funded by the European Union The opening of the event […]

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American Friends Service Committee ADSC Video

This short short video by the American Friends Service Committee brings home to all of us the impact of Israel’s colonization of the West Bank.

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Gaza CLOSED ZONE video

Yoni Goodman, director of animation for the Academy Award-nominated film, “Waltz with Bashir”,  Now brings you ‘Closed Zone’. Despite declarations that it has “disengaged” from the Gaza Strip, Israel maintains control of the Strip’s overland border crossings, territorial waters, and air space. This includes substantial, albeit indirect, control of the Rafah Crossing. During the past […]

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