20 January, 2009 By Jan Benvie While the world’s media focus on Gaza, the Israeli military tightens its grip on the other area of occupied Palestine — the West Bank. Last week my 10km (6 mile) journey from Yatta to Hebron, in the southern West Bank, took two hours. If I were Palestinian and male, [...]

PALESTINE REFLECTION: The shape of the future 9 January 2008 By Kathleen Kern Christian Peacemaker Teams Recently, Jim Roynon and I visited an old friend of the team in Ramallah to discuss what shape CPT’s future work in Palestine might take. If she were not dealing with the slaughter in Gaza and supporting her colleagues [...]

PALESTINE REFLECTION: Gaza and Jeremiah 9 January 2008 The Old Testament reading last Sunday was Jeremiah 31:7-14. The pastor at church in Jerusalem, Mike Powell, pointed out that this passage is often labeled as Zionist, seemingly supporting the establishment and preservation of a Jewish homeland. Netanyahu even quoted the passage in a letter to the [...]

My friend, Fahmi Jaber, died recently on the way to the hospital. He was 57. Fahmi lived in the Beqa’a Valley, just east of Hebron in the West Bank. He lived beside the main road that could have quickly taken him to the hospital. He could have gotten to the main road in one or [...]