Wednesday, May 30, 2007

Artas Destruction


Around a camp fire in Artas, camping in an orchard slated for demolition, waiting for the morning......

Walking the planned route of the wall through Wadi Neiss - a wide swather of destruction that will isolate the village from its land.......

Samer - all round diamond geezer.......

Donkey breaks through the roadblock............

Anahi - serious demonstration face...

Friday prayers on soon to be annexed land in Wadi Neiss, with a guest appearance by the Israeli Army

Mum in the Garden of Gethsemane

Me and My Dad in Jerusalem

A street in the Old City of Jerusalem

In the YMCA garden - a 500 year old olive tree 'rescued' from confiscated land, and moved here to live another year or more.........maybe another 500.....

Gillingham Olive Tree Plaque

The Gamla Falls - highest waterfall in the Golan Heights

Happy families.........getting soaking wet in a thunder storm in Gamla

A hippo in Hippo? Or is it an owl? Crrrrrooooooo........

Fishy lunch in a fishy place........

Monday, May 07, 2007




The Movenpick resort, by the Dead Sea in Jordan. Ridiculously plush spa resort where I caught up with Mum and Dad.

fishy pond at the Movenpick resort


Gillingham Olive Trees, in a field between Efrat Settlement and Bethlehem....


Looking up at Efrat Settlement from Ibrahim's land


Boycott Caterpillar!


Ibrahim Sbeih with one of his trees, buried in rubble


Dad and Ibrahim (the landowner) look at an olive tree buried in rubble from the settlement


Mum and Dad with fledgling Olive Tree, sponsored from Gillingham, near Efrat settlement, Bethlehem


Mum and Dad in Jerusalem


View over the roof-tops of Jerusalem


Mum and Dad on the rampart walk in Jerusalem


Mount of Olives and Garden of Gethsemane seen from the Walls of Jerusalem - Magdalen Church with the Golden Onions

Inside the Church of the Holy Sepulchre, Jerusalem



Thingjig's pillar (could be Ahab? or Jeff the God of Biscuits, hard to say really), Jerusalem


Church of All Nations, Mount of Olives, Jerusalem


Ancient olive tree in the Garden of Gethsemane


Magdelen Church, garden of Gethsemane, Jerusalem


Fishy lunch by the Lake


"What do we do if we tread on a mine??"

"Normal proceedure is to jump 200 feet into the air, and scatter yourself over a wide area"



Matteo


Mum in the Galilee

Dad in the Galilee


Looking out over Lake Tiberias from Hippo
Ruins of ancient Hippo

The Galilee


Matt - violating regulations....