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Israel Palestine Day Eleven

2020/01/30 Gayle 0

Stardate: January 30, 2020 I awoke in the morning to the sound of Rami praying. I don’t know what time it was, but it was early. It was before my alarm had gone off and there was the sound of Rami calling his prayer as he started his day, as he and DilNaz left us to head back to the US. There was something very comforting about hearing Rami pray in that place and that time after the night before when we had the opportunity to pray together with Rami and the others . We went to Ako and we were told that we would have some free time and we had the opportunity to just sit and drink coffee which is what I The rest of the story

Israel / Palestine Trip – Day Ten

2020/01/29 Gayle 0

Stardate: January 29, 2020 Visiting with the Ethiopian Kes was very interesting. I have a vague recollection of the air lift that took place in 1985 or was announced in the very beginning of 1985. I was in college and looking towards graduation but I also was a bit of a news junkie at that point in time. I certainly remember the announcement of this airlift to bring all of these Ethiopian Jews to Israel. What I found interesting in the history that we were given when we were visiting, versus the history that I remember is that my memory says that there was a famine in Ethiopia and the reason for the airlift was directly related to the famine however when questioned about The rest of the story

Israel / Palestine Trip – Day Nine

2020/01/28 Gayle 0

StarDate: January 28,2020 It was maybe the easiest day of our journey. Not easy in that ‘it’s a late start’ or that ‘it’s an early finish’ or that there was ‘all this free time available’, but after the hard day yesterday, I felt light. It felt easy. As we drove through the countryside on our way to Galilee there were shepherds abiding in the field keeping watch over their flock. It wasn’t by night, but it was reminiscent of what you might imagine the pastoral views would look like and what you would imagine a world would be like in ancient times. I was desperate to get a picture that showed sheep in the field or cattle in the field and a shepherd or The rest of the story

Israel / Palestine Trip – Day Eight

2020/01/27 Gayle 0

Stardate: January 27,2020 Sighs too deep for words. I really think that is all I can say for Hebron. What I saw and what I experienced, I don’t know how to put it into words. I keep coming back to the idea of how people who lived through the extermination in Germany in the thirties and forties, how they can relate to the idea of a sterilized street. When we got to the steps and the soldier came over to block us, I have to say that my first thought was a little surreal, like we’re obviously American tourists and to be stopped seemed odd. And then to be told that part of our group couldn’t walk through because it was a The rest of the story

Israel / Palestine Trip – Day Seven

2020/01/26 Gayle 0

Stardate: January 26,2020 Today we left Jerusalem. We drove out of the city in what seemed like the same way we had taken to go to Masada and to go to the Dead Sea. And yet we ended up in a city in Ramallah. It all had a very different feel from when we had gone on our adventure to the Dead Sea and Masada. As we drove into Ramallah it seemed like any other city except that as we were going in, Jared pointed out a sign that said to Israeli Jews that it wasn’t safe for them to enter the city. It was perhaps the first time that I truly had a sense of danger, a real sense of danger not the fake The rest of the story