The wall
Joyriding through a settlement
Sign for Palestinian Taybeh beer: "Taste the Revolution". Miles thinks it tastes like Sam Adams.
Arafat's tomb in Ramallah, 14.63km from Jerusalem. so close...
View from the apse of the Church of Dominus Flavet on the Mount of Olives. Directyl behind the cross is the Church of the Holy Sepulchre, and to the left is the Dome of the Rock. Behind that, West Jerusalem
memorial to the Armenian Genocide of 1915, located in the Armenian quarter of the old city.
Garden of Gethsemane
From the Mount of Olives, overlooking the old city.
Wailing Wall
Nico, alias Shlomo, wearing a kippa at the wailing wall
Israeli T-shirts
The wall (not the Wailing Wall).
Returning to West Bank through the Qalandia checkpoint. From the other direction, heavy security measures are in place; but leaving, no security check (so that they can say that they didn't realize the settlers were arming themselves).
Arafat graffitti on the wall
Passing through the infamous Qalandia checkpoint into Jerusalem.
mayhem at Qalandia checkpoint. In these fights to get through the gates, people have been known to be stabbed.
Via Dolorosa in Jerusalem's old city, where Jesus supposedly carried his cross.
Someone about to be crucified
Crazy evangelical Nigerians praying at the spot where Simon of Cyrene supposedly helped Jesus with his cross.
Golgota, where Jesus was said to have been crucified
Where Jesus was supposed to have been laid to rest
Sign in Ultra-Orthodox Jewish neighborhood, Mear Shearim, in West Jerusalem, which reads: "Death to Zionists."
Entrance to Mear Shearim, asking women to dress moderately and no tourist groups.
Ramallah sunset
hiking outside of Ramallah
International Conference on Detainees in Israeli Occupation Prisons, Nov 20-22, Jericho. Second from left: Salem Fayyad (Palestinian PM); far right: Patrick Sheehan, former Irish hunger striker during 1981 Republican prisoner strike.
Camels in Jericho
Nablus, with the Al-Misri family mansion sitting atop the hill
Nablus' soaps, stacked to air out after production
preparing Nablus' famed kanefa
candy factory
Memorial to family killed by IDF in Nablus when their house was bulldozed to make an entrance for tanks entering the city during the second intifada. Nablus is credited for being one of the cities to have given the most "martyrs" during the first and second Intifadas.
miles' yummy b'day cake
teacup of jack daniel's
kidnapped by two USAID contractors
qalqilya chicken butcher and random dude
"Where are you, Arabs?"
Bethelem santas
rocking Manger Square
Al-Manara square, Ramallah, with the Stars and Bucks coffee shop in the background.
Israeli shell used in the kiling of Anan Subah, December 26, 2009
House of Anan Subah
From the street level, soldiers sprayed Anan Subah's house with bullets
Church of the Nativity, Bethlehem
Part of the Wall surrounding Bethlehem. Only around 13% of Bethlehem's land is available for Palestinian use.
Bethlehem youth performing theater in solidarity with Gaza. Manger Square, Bethlehem, 31/12/09
Al-Aqsa
Dome of the Rock in the Al-Aqsa compound
view of Mt. of Olives, with Dominicus Flavius chapel and Mary of Magdelene Convent, as seen from the Dome of the Rock
spent Israeli munitions
wine tasting in Israel, where the wine should at least be free since it was made on stolen land
another dumb pose by miles
cute Israeli woman showing off her cheeses
white oppression
At sea level, 230-some meters above the Dead Sea
floating in the dead sea
Camel and Bob
Old Jaffa looking over to Tel Aviv
Old Jaffa
Japanese Virgin Mary and Jesus at the Church of the Annunciation in Nazareth
Israeli-occupied Golan Heights, looking down onto Syria
Miles testing out latest technology machine gun turret
Occupied Golan Heights
Night time over Ramallah, with Tel Aviv in the background
Israeli army rolling through Ramallah past our house
Nablus girls are strange
Time is my enemy