December 2004
“We
are not against the Jews: we are against Zionism...
I
think that in the future, all the Jews will understand that
we are fighting for them too.”
—Yasser Arafat,
1977
In this issue:
The
Advent of Hope in a Holy Land
“Can
these ‘blood brothers’ talk civilly to each other again?”
BY
Glenn Edward Witmer—page
1
Happy
Hanukkah!—page
2
Post-Arafat
Christmas Revival for Bethlehem
–page 2
Tourist
entities and Christian communities all over the world called upon
to
start organizing tours to the Holy Land.
Dreaming
of a Bright Green (-back) Christmas
“The
Israeli and Palestinian Ministers of Tourism…announce that both
ministries will
cooperate in promoting tourism to the Holy Land.”
BY Judy Lash Balint—page
3
Making
Cross-Cultural [Air]Waves
BY Barry Davis—page 4
The
Road from Here
“We
can’t win the war on terror if we don’t act together. We Muslims
were the
first targets of the extremists…”
BY Abdullah II, King of Jordan—page 4
A
Warning Signal from the Churches
“The
idea of divestment originated in the struggle of Western human
rights organizations against South Africa during apartheid.”
BY Nathan Guttman—page
5
PA
Orders Media to Stop Broadcasting Incitement–page
6
New
Creation in Galilee—page
7
“History
was made as Jews and Arabs, from
the towns and villages throughout Galilee, sat together.”
Snow
Falls on ‘Dewey’
Mount Hermon—page
7
The chill may help control another locust invasion from Egypt.
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