I am heading to Israel/Palestine as part of an Interfaith Peace-Builders delegation this May. Can you help me fill the knapsack? My current goal is $500.00 by Monday sourced out of Spokane. That’s 50 people donating $10, or 100 donating $5. Check out the prizes here if the math alone doesn’t do it for you.
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Why Palestine?
Over the past year, I’ve become much more educated about the Israeli occupation of Gaza and the West Bank and shocked to find how little I knew before about a fairly central piece of U.S. foreign policy. I believe that this specific conflict can teach many lessons about the nature of our current global society in a powerful manner. The issues of race, religion, propaganda, military violence, human rights, environmental and resource problems, and more all appear in a relatively small slice of time and in a very small place geographically, making the “big picture” more visible through examining the details.
The reason that I started my radio program, Praxis, is the same reason I am joining this delegation: to attempt to illustrate this larger picture and the role of the individual within it. Meeting the people on the ground who are affected day to day will allow me to tell the story of this conflict to others in the effective format of personal storytelling as opposed to the abstracted and dry world of statistics, however shocking they may be, that people are used to experiencing.
Before, during, and after this trip I’ll be working on a few different projects to ensure that the experience enriches more people than me alone. Check them out here.
), and resources and information for people unfamiliar with this specific conflict.
