Palestinians are being forced to agree to “acceptable” candidates for elections to offices that will have only as much power as the Israeli government, underwritten by the Bush administration, grants.
Mustafa Barghouti, one of the candidates vying to be the next president of the Palestinian Authority, was arrested by the IDF for campaigning in East Jerusalem.
High-school [...]
Wandering around the New City late one night, I found an ancient Muslim graveyard that looked as if it had been systematically vandalized over the years. The next morning I went back to examine it in daylight. Here are a few photos of what I found. Needless to [...]
A pilgrim preaching peace and love in Bethlehem on Christmas Eve.
On Christmas Eve, I left the street cats of Tel Aviv behind and boarded a bus for Jerusalem. After dumping my belongings at the Petra Hostel, located within the walls of the Old City, myself, two Frenchmen and a Dutch [...]