Wow, what a day! It started out early saying goodbye to my wife and kids. Although my boys will miss me, they were a bit annoyed I was distracting them from their morning cartoons and breakfast. My wife, Karen, is a trooper. She is slammed at work and I’ll be gone for 10 days. I’m sure she’ll be fine but […]
My boys. Hi boys. It’s the night before I go on my trip to Palestine. You have both asked me why I’m going so far away and the answers are many. First and foremost, I want to go see family I haven’t seen in years — since I was about your age! That’s a long time ago. I want to […]
Here’s a short video of my mom and I before our trip to Palestine. My mom is incredibly excited to travel there with me — something she hasn’t done since 1972 when I was baptized in my father’s house — the house my grandfather built in the 1930s, and the house where my cousin and his family still live. The […]
Israel approves three West Bank settlements – Middle East – Al Jazeera English How can a “two-state solution” ever exist with more and more illegal settlements carving up the West Bank? Ridiculous. Time for a “one state solution” where all people are recognized and free?
A report on how Israeli occupation and the struggles of occupation in Palestine have helped deteriorate the Christian population in the Holy Land. Bonus Report on Christian Village in Palestine
Occupation is the act of occupying. As in occupying land and the people who live on that land. Specifically, it’s to take possession of a place, most likely by military invasion and then control that place (and its people) over an amount of time. Sometimes a very extended amount of time. Palestine has been under occuputaion since 1967. That’s why […]
In May of 2012, I will be traveling to the city of El-Bireh, Palestine, on the outskirts of Ramallah – about 9 miles north of Jerusalem. I will be traveling there with my mom, who was born there, as was my late father. My mom and dad married in 1962 in Palestine and moved to Youngstown, Ohio, where my dad […]
My uncles, Anees and Ramzy, with my dad, Adeeb, in front of their family home in El-Bireh, Palestine, just outside Ramallah, in the West Bank, Palestine, 1955.
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