Tuesday
Tuesday
Well here I am sat on a familiar doorstep on Shuhada Street. Feels like coming home. Look one way to the checkpoint. The other way to the Jewish settlement of Beit Hadassa. Acroos the street the stars of David graffitied on the shops closed by military order always reminds me of the Warsaw Ghetto. Watching children coming and going to school. Following the settler teenager who spat at a Palestinian to make sure he was not planning anything worse. Soldiers greeting me like a long lost friend is a bit weird but there we are. They are not all bad people if only they were not part of an occupying army.
Huge crowds of Jewish tourists arrived in the afternoon
In the evening there was a party to meet the new EAPPI team and say good bye to those finishing their 3 month tour. EAPPI is the Ecumenical Accompaniment Project to Palestine and Israel, sponsored by the World Council of Churches. Lots of people were there, Christian Peacemaker Teams and all kinds of organisations. Also a lot of Palestinian friends.
I met Reem Sharif the principal of Coruba Girls School. She asked me to go in 2 hours a week to speak to the English classes.
