Promoting Peace Through Personal Contact and Experience
About Neighbors East and West
(Contact and History)
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 For Iran travel information, and accounts and a slide show from earlier NEW trips to Iran, click here For coming opportunities to travel to Palestine and Israel, including a trip being planned by Bill and Marina Shaw, click here |
Note:
There won't be a Neighbors East and West Trip this year, but
there are many opportunities to take unconventional trips to Palestine
and israel with other organizations. Here are several links
to these programs:
Bill and Marina Shaw who traveled with NEW to Palestine and Israel in 2011, are planning a trip sponsored by Cross Currents International, The details can be found here: Pilgrims of Ibillin is planning a pilgrimage trip to Israel and parts of the West Bank, using the Mar Elias College as a base for travel in Galilee. For a pdf description of this program click here. Links to many other alternative travel programs, catalogued by AFSC, can be found here: ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- Below are reports on our July, 2011 trip: Gaining Perspective in the Holy Land A Travel Program in Palestine and Israel Led By Dr. Tony Bing, Prof Emeritus, Earlham College June 13 - 26, 2011  The
Travelers to Palestine
and Israel are Safely Home
For and account of the trip, by retired AFSC worker Jim Matlack. follow one of the links below: The Plight of the Palestinians (HTML web page) The Plight of the Palestinians (PDF Document) Sam Neff has posted a sort of blog on the trip here Shirley Harryman produced this guest opinion in the Kalispell Daily Interlake (Mr. Reed Yeater of Polson wrote this response) This article was submitted by David Reese to the Kalispell Daily Interlake, and then rejected Here are links to Ted Lollis' very thorough account of our trip, and reference to places he visited after most travelers had returned home: http://peace.maripo.com/trip_2011_part_1.htm http://peace.maripo.com/trip_2011_part_2.htm Ted has now made available a two-part lecture which he has given recently to a group from the University of Tennessee His lecture is titled: Palestine,
Israel and other Tragedies
find an on-line version at this link: http://peace.maripo.com/e_03jan12_1.htmWill Boland has given a slide show at the Helena MT Public Lirary See an introductory article here:PalestineTripStuff/BolandArticle.html Follow this link for an introductory article and photos the NEW trip to Palestine and Israel, which is the first in a series to appear in the weekly paper, Valley Views For Background Material on the Palestinian - Israeli conflict, we recommend this list of materials: Reading List Rabbi Brant Rosen of Evanston, IL, has recently led a group of Americans to Palestine, engaging in activities similar to those which we are planning. To learn of that trip, and many reactions of the participants, read the entries on Palestine at this link (be sure to look under 'older posts': http://rabbibrant.com/category/palestine/ Here is one of those posts by Marge Frank: From the Side of the Oppressed: A Guest Post From Palestine |
