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Bethlehem plans another somber Christmas under the shadow of war in Gaza

BETHLEHEM, West Bank — The Nativity Store in Manger Square has sold handmade olive wood carvings and religious items to people visiting the traditional birthplace of Jesus since 1927. “Last year before Christmas, we had more hope, but now again we are close to Christmas and we don’t have anything,” said Rony Tabash, the third-generation owner of Nativity Store. A …

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Vatican’s Palestinian Nativity scene raises eyebrows – and then disappears

The Independent

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1 week, 4 days ago

Vatican’s keffiyeh Nativity scene raises eyebrows and then disappears — at least until Christmas Eve

Associated Press

VATICAN CITY — Pope Francis presided over his weekly general audience Wednesday alongside a Palestinian-crafted Nativity scene that was missing its eyebrow-raising signature element: a keffiyeh-draped manger holding the infant Jesus. The wooden Nativity scene in the Vatican’s main audience hall had generated headlines when it was unveiled Dec. 7 because of the presence of the keffiyeh, the black-and-white checkered …

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Pope Francis Unveils Christmas Nativity With Baby Jesus Atop A Keffiyeh

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LOADING ERROR LOADING Pope Francis made a plea for peace while unveiling a nativity featuring baby Jesus nestled in a keffiyeh in Vatican City on Saturday. The pontiff declared “Enough wars, enough violence!” while receiving a delegation of representatives from the Palestinian groups that organized the project by Bethlehem-based artists Johny Andonia and Faten Nastas Mitwasi, Vatican News reported. Part …

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54 years, 11 months ago

15 of the best places to go for Christmas

CNN

Editor’s note: Sign up for Unlocking the World, CNN Travel’s weekly newsletter. “The Christmas City” also has horse-drawn carriage rides, holiday libations, historic tree displays and decor aplenty. In “the little city of wood and cloth,” visitors to market booths can find traditional, often handmade Christmas decorations, wooden toys and all sorts of food and drink. It’s even the home …

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54 years, 11 months ago

15 of the best places to go for Christmas

CNN

Editor’s note: Sign up for Unlocking the World, CNN Travel’s weekly newsletter. “The Christmas City” also has horse-drawn carriage rides, holiday libations, historic tree displays and decor aplenty. In “the little city of wood and cloth,” visitors to market booths can find traditional, often handmade Christmas decorations, wooden toys and all sorts of food and drink. It’s even the home …

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The best cookbooks of 2024

LA Times

The year 2024 had us hugging our cookbooks. Cook vegetables better with Sarah Hymanson and Sara Kramer’s “Kismet,” or make saag paneer lasagna and green chutney pizza from “Amrikan” by food writer Khushbu Shah. A section at the back includes recipes for bean accompaniments, like “Steve’s skillet cornbread,” which according to Sando is the best friend a bowl of beans …

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3 weeks, 4 days ago

Fact Check: Hate crime in West Bank? This church attack video is old and unrelated to Christmas

India Today

A church was allegedly attacked in Beit Sahour, a town near the Palestinian city of Bethlehem, the biblical birthplace of Jesus Christ, in occupied West Bank. While many posts simply said “Palestinians” attacked a church in Beit Sahour because churchgoers had started decorating for Christmas, some laid the blame squarely on Palestinian Muslims. The viral claims about the church attack …

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1 month, 2 weeks ago

What. Just. Happened? Making Sense Of Democrats' Blowout Loss

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Former President Donald Trump talks to reporters as he sits in a garbage truck on Oct. 30 in Green Bay, Wisconsin. Instead, former President Donald Trump, the Republican nominee, defeated Vice President Kamala Harris in an electoral college blowout that is set to upend American politics for years to come. The Trump line that most epitomized his campaign pitch was …

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1 month, 3 weeks ago

The Lehigh Valley has changed drastically. Now, it could swing Pennsylvania

NPR

The Lehigh Valley has changed drastically. Sponsor Message “One of the differences between the Lehigh Valley and the western part of the state, which have become very solidly sort of Trump Republican parts of the state — the Lehigh Valley has been recovering in the last decade,” said Dan Mallinson, a professor of political science at Penn State Harrisburg. “It's …

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Understanding Pennsylvania’s undecideds — the voters that could decide the 2024 election

Salon

If you’re like many of my friends, I know what you’re thinking: OMG, how is it even possible that half the country is going to vote for that guy? The lead story in the October 22nd New York Times was headlined: “Battle is Fierce for Sliver of Pie: Undecided Votes.” Its subhead: “Election Could Hinge on People Who Aren’t ‘Super …

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4 months, 1 week ago

Released Palestinians describe worsening abuses in Israeli prisons

LA Times

Palestinian boxer Muazzaz Abayat, 37, holds his 2-month-old son, Mohammed, and 5-year-old daughter Mira at home in the West Bank city of Bethlehem after his release from an Israeli prison. Released Palestinians have described worsening abuses in Israeli prisons crammed with thousands detained since the war in Gaza began 10 months ago. According to autopsy reports for five of the …

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5 months ago

Palestinian chef Fadi Kattan on food waste, sustainability and the Palestinian-Israeli conflict

Salon

Chef Fadi Kattan, whose new cookbook "Bethlehem: A Celebration of Palestinian Food" was released in May, says that he "couldn't understand and I still don't understand what's happening" in his home country, referring of course to the ongoing Israeli offensive in Gaza. Would you say there's a good starter recipe in the book for those looking to prioritize or highlight …

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5 months, 3 weeks ago

Palestine and the archeobotany of occupation: Ancient fruit in the mouth of a hungry god

Salon

Every spring, silver-green olive trees across the historical territory of Palestine bloom into white clusters, with the region's iconic green and black fruit to appear as the season wears on. Known as al-Badawi by locals, the tree has had many names and titles, including “Bride of Palestine” and “Old Woman.” Related Why war zones are the perfect place for antibiotic …

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7 months, 1 week ago

Nakba Day 2024: Why Israel’s 1948 displacement of Palestinians still hurts—especially amid the war in Gaza.

Slate

The Holy Land and its syzygy of faiths has no natives, only interlopers. For all the sanctity of Holocaust remembrance and “never again,” every day of Israel’s existence has been a remembrance for Palestinians of Nakba and its forever again trauma. In November, Avi Dichter, Netanyahu’s agriculture minister and a member of his security Cabinet, proudly said Israel was “rolling …

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9 months ago

These children left Gaza but still suffer mental trauma from Israel’s war

Al Jazeera

Through art and bonding with each other, 68 children evacuated to Bethlehem are working through their pain. Bethlehem, occupied West Bank – A group of children from Gaza are in an art workshop in Bethlehem’s SOS Children’s Village, 102km from Rafah, the southernmost city in the Gaza Strip. Sixty-eight children were evacuated this month from Rafah’s SOS Children’s Village to …

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9 months, 2 weeks ago

‘If UNRWA goes, so do our dreams of returning home’, Palestinians fear

Al Jazeera

Residents of the occupied West Bank fear total loss of healthcare and education, while UN aid agency warns of escalating tensions if it is forced to halt operations. Aida, Bethlehem, occupied West Bank – Among the children playing on the street in the Aida refugee camp near Bethlehem in the occupied West Bank is 10-year-old Ahmad Damaseh who dreams of …

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10 months ago

‘Systematic torture’: To be Palestinian in an Israeli prison

Al Jazeera

Israel stepped up its arrest campaign in the occupied West Bank, and mistreatment of prisoners in its overstuffed jails. In the occupied West Bank and East Jerusalem, it arrested about 7,000 people, sometimes without charges, making the total number of Palestinian prisoners nearly 10,000, adding serious overcrowding to the challenges they face. Beaten brutally Jaafar Obayat, who recently left Megiddo …

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10 months ago

Saving democracy is central to Biden’s campaign messaging. Will it resonate with swing state voters?

Associated Press

BETHLEHEM, Pa. — Just blocks from the shuttered Bethlehem Steel plant, the Hispanic Center Lehigh Valley was bustling on a recent day with scores of older people eating lunch. “I think so many people are already immune to that messaging, it won’t land as cleanly this election as it did in 2020,” he said. “If he keeps pushing that message, …

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11 months ago

Palestinian industries falter as Israel bombs Gaza, locks down West Bank

Al Jazeera

A serious aspect of Israel’s violence in Gaza and the occupied West Bank is how it’s hurting Palestinian businesses. Bethlehem, occupied West Bank – As the occupied West Bank roils with near-daily Israeli raids, settler attacks and killings of Palestinians, an overlooked impact of the violence is starting to take its toll. The past few months, Muhanad Nairoukh, manager of …

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11 months, 2 weeks ago

Christmas under the rubble in Bethlehem

The Hindu

News of continued bombings in Gaza killing more than 22,500 Palestinians and of Israeli raids in the West Bank killing more Palestinians, as well as the cancellation of Christmas celebrations in Bethlehem, brought back memories of my life in Gaza between 1996 and 1998. The first time I drove to Bethlehem from Gaza in 1996, after crossing the usual Israeli …

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11 months, 3 weeks ago

'Our hearts are in Bethlehem': Pope Francis over Israel-Hamas war

Hindustan Times

Recalling Jesus’ birth in a stable in Bethlehem, Pope Francis in a Christmas Eve homily said that “the clash of arms even today" prevents Jesus “from finding room in the world.” Pope Francis The pontiff presided Sunday over the evening Mass attended by about 6,500 faithful who took their place amid the splendor of St. Peter’s Basilica behind rows of …

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11 months, 4 weeks ago

Israeli forces strike Bethlehem on Christmas day amid raids across West Bank

Live Mint

Israel-Hamas war: Stepping up its attack against Palestine, Israeli Defence Forces conducted some deadly Christmas Day raids against Palestinian targets in the occupied West Bank. The development comes amid a surge in violence in the occupied West Bank after Israel launched its war against Hamas targets in Gaza, which has killed more than 20,000 people including innocent civilians. Israeli forces …

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11 months, 4 weeks ago

Egypt floats plan to end Israel-Hamas war. The proposal gets a cool reception

Associated Press

CAIRO — Israel and Hamas on Monday gave cool public receptions to an Egyptian proposal to end their bitter war. Israel’s Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, right, speaks to soldiers as he visits the northern Gaza Strip, where he received security briefings with commanders and soldiers, on Monday, Dec. 25, 2023. Palestinians pull a body out of the rubble of the …

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Bethlehem plans another somber Christmas under the shadow of war in Gaza

Vatican’s Palestinian Nativity scene raises eyebrows – and then disappears

Vatican’s keffiyeh Nativity scene raises eyebrows and then disappears — at least until Christmas Eve

Pope Francis Unveils Christmas Nativity With Baby Jesus Atop A Keffiyeh

15 of the best places to go for Christmas

15 of the best places to go for Christmas

The best cookbooks of 2024

Fact Check: Hate crime in West Bank? This church attack video is old and unrelated to Christmas

What. Just. Happened? Making Sense Of Democrats' Blowout Loss

The Lehigh Valley has changed drastically. Now, it could swing Pennsylvania

Understanding Pennsylvania’s undecideds — the voters that could decide the 2024 election

Released Palestinians describe worsening abuses in Israeli prisons

Palestinian chef Fadi Kattan on food waste, sustainability and the Palestinian-Israeli conflict

Palestine and the archeobotany of occupation: Ancient fruit in the mouth of a hungry god

Nakba Day 2024: Why Israel’s 1948 displacement of Palestinians still hurts—especially amid the war in Gaza.

These children left Gaza but still suffer mental trauma from Israel’s war

‘If UNRWA goes, so do our dreams of returning home’, Palestinians fear

‘Systematic torture’: To be Palestinian in an Israeli prison

Saving democracy is central to Biden’s campaign messaging. Will it resonate with swing state voters?

Palestinian industries falter as Israel bombs Gaza, locks down West Bank

Christmas under the rubble in Bethlehem

'Our hearts are in Bethlehem': Pope Francis over Israel-Hamas war

Israeli forces strike Bethlehem on Christmas day amid raids across West Bank

Egypt floats plan to end Israel-Hamas war. The proposal gets a cool reception