by Minga Claggett-Borne | Nov 10, 2015 | Israel-Palestine Unveiled, Palestine-Israel Homeland 2018, Pilgrimage 2015-16
Jean Zaru is a Palestinian Quaker who speaks and writes about current life in occupied Palestine. What is a Quaker response? I listened closely as Jean spoke at the RamAllah Friends Meeting last Sunday. “I’m not saying that the oppressed are blameless, but...
by Minga Claggett-Borne | Nov 4, 2015 | Israel-Palestine Unveiled, Palestine-Israel Homeland 2018, Pilgrimage 2015-16
On a cloudy day Jonathan and I took a bumpy bus-ride to Gush Etzion where Palestinian Ali Abu Awad started talking to Jewish settlers. We heard the following story from 3 settlers. The three work for the program Roots. They organize after school programs for both Arab...
by Minga Claggett-Borne | Oct 27, 2015 | Israel-Palestine Unveiled, Palestine-Israel Homeland 2018, Pilgrimage 2015-16
Hebron is a tinderbox. There are confrontations daily. Before the sun rises the melodic cry of the muezzin drifts across the dark city. People cook their tea and have pita, yogurt, and diab (mix of tahini and grape syrup) for breakfast. Hebron, maybe 1/2 million...
by Minga Claggett-Borne | Oct 21, 2015 | Israel-Palestine Unveiled, Palestine-Israel Homeland 2018, Pilgrimage 2015-16
I’ve completed El Camino, and now I immerse myself in the thick problems of conquest and domination. My friend in Seville wants to go on a trip in to Cuba before it is wide open to US traffic. Cruise ships will be going there next May. How strange is that?...
by Minga Claggett-Borne | Oct 14, 2015 | Pilgrimage 2015-16
“Walking I’m listening to a deeper way… All my ancestors are behind me, “be still, they say. Watch and listen. You are the result of the love of thousands which come before you.” Linda Hogan Why am I doing the Camino? I have a meaningful...
