Rosewood Nativity Scenes

The West Bank

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December 30th 2015
Geo: 31.0461, 34.8516I have waited to post about this day because it was quite overwhelming. After breakfast we left the Bedouin camp and headed off to visit the Duhaishe Camp for Palestinian refugees and then onto Bethlehem. The camp was established in 1948/49 to temporarily house Palestinians who fled their homes during the 1948 Arab-Israeli War. The conflict over returning to their homes i ... read more

Middle East » Israel

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Following World War II, the British withdrew from their mandate of Palestine, and the UN partitioned the area into Arab and Jewish states, an arrangement rejected by the Arabs. Subsequently, the Israelis defeated the Arabs in a series of wars without... ... read more