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Faisal Saleh is a Palestinian immigrant in the United States and founder of the first permanent Palestinian museum in the U.S.
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The Palestinian museum serves as a space for education and elevation of Palestinian art rather than war and conflict. The Palestinian museum defies the traditional Western narrative of the Palestinian story by acting as a space for celebration of cultural life rather than political divide.
Saleh's parents left Salama during Israel's War of Independence, eventually settling in the West Bank town of El Bireh, near Ramallah.
At the age of 18, in 1969, two years after the 1967 war, Saleh moved to the United States, studied at Oberlin College, earned his M.B.A. from the University of Connecticut, and became an entrepreneur.
Hundreds of photos, paintings and sculptures by some of the most prominent Palestinian artists are proudly displayed at his museum, including pieces from Gaza, Jordan, Lebanon, and Ramallah.
Saleh has managed this despite the obstacles of shipping art from occupied territories like Gaza and West Bank.
Saleh is financing the museum himself, but he said he hopes to eventually attract enough financial support to relocate the gallery from its suburban, turnpike setting to major cities across the U.S.
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S4: Bethlehem | E6: Walled Off Hotel
The Walled Off Hotel also intentionally named as, the worst view of any hotel in the world”, by anonymous British street artist, Banksy. Not only is this a 9 room hotel but also a museum and gallery portraying the Palestinian/Israeli conflict. Some rooms look out onto the wall of shame and an Israeli settlement which ironically is illegal under international law. On the upper level of the hotel features art from local Palestinian Artists. If you have stayed at the Walled Off Hotel, tell us one thing you saw that caught your eye.
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Picture politics adorn Israel's security wall
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One of the newest tourist hotspots for visitors to the Holy Land is a graffiti tour of Israel's security wall that runs through the West Bank city of Bethlehem.
Massive portraits of world leaders such as Donald Trump are among the many highlights of the artwork spray-painted on the grey concrete.
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Donald Trump is drawing people to the West Bank - or rather portraits of him are.
He is one of many world leaders featured on the Israeli Security barrier in a recent swath of graffiti which covers the concrete structure.
And the art is attracting tourists from all over the world.
Yamen Abu Al-Abed, a Palestinian tour guide, brings visitors to the security barrier, specifically to see some of the works.
It (affected) the alternative tourism. Many tourists come and they are not religious, they come to know about the political situation in general. The graffiti on the wall is attracting lots of tourists, some were painted by world famous artists, such as Banksy.
Tourists such as Leigh, from the United States, has come to see the graffiti for himself.
I went to old Jerusalem I went to see the Wailing (Western) Wall, saw a quote at the Banksy Museum (hotel) and he says that he thinks this is the Wailing Wall (meaning the barrier) and I really like that because you know all that old stuff doesn't really mean anything to me but I look at this and you see all this stuff that it's here but it will be gone soon and something else will come up and to me it says a lot more, it is much more interesting. It is much more in the now.
Israel began building the barrier a decade ago, at the height of an armed Palestinian uprising, saying the divider is needed to keep suicide bombers and gunmen from entering Israel.
But now the barrier has become a gallery of graffiti, much of it with a political message ranging from US politics to Make Hummus Not Walls.
Abu Al-Abed thinks the barrier art is a way in which people can better understand the situation in the West Bank.
They (the tourists) come and learn from us the Palestinian people. They learn about the oppression, the apartheid wall and its causes, about the unemployment and about the Palestinian life. We are against the wall but we have no problems with the graffiti on it. Some people come to look at the graffiti and it attracts them, all the graffiti is against the wall and the artists who painted it are also against the wall.
Earlier this year a nine-room hotel was opened, sarcastically billing itself as having the hotel with the worst view in the world.
The hotel was decorated with British graffiti artist Banksy's trademark political murals.
Thanks to the establishment, named The Walled Off Hotel, and the graffiti painted by the famous artist, shop owner Abu Yamen says the area has been revived.
When I opened this shop in the area here (seven years ago), the area was like a ghost town, with no movement because of the wall. The graffiti painted by the famous artist Banksy revived the area, tourists from all over the world come to this area to look at the wall and the work of Banksy on it and in other places.
Despite a resurgence in local business, the barrier is still a deeply unwanted edifice.
Palestinians say the barrier, which slices off about 10 percent of the West Bank, amounts to a land grab.
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German Settlement Plans In Palestine
Kurt Eppinger's community of German Christians arrived in the Holy Land to carry out a messianic plan - but after less than a century its members were sent into exile, the vision of their founding fathers brought to an abrupt and unhappy end.
The Germans were no longer welcome in what had been first a part of the Ottoman Empire, then British Mandate Palestine and would soon become Israel.
On 3 September 1939, we were listening to the BBC and my father said: 'War has been declared' - and the next minute there was a knock at the door and a policeman came and took my father and all the men in the colony away.
Aged 14 at the time, Kurt was part of a Christian group called the Templers. He lived in a settlement in Jerusalem - the district still known as the German Colony today.
By the late 1940s though, the entire Templer community of seven settlements across Palestine had been deported, never to return.
They had landed two generations earlier, led by Christoph Hoffmann, a Protestant theologian from Ludwigsburg in Wuerttemberg, who believed the Second Coming of Christ could be hastened by building a spiritual Kingdom of God in the Holy Land.
Kurt's grandfather, Christian, was among several dozen people who joined Hoffmann in relocating from Germany to Haifa in Palestine in 1869.
Hoffmann had split from the Lutheran Evangelical Church in 1861, taking his cue from New Testament concepts of Christians as temples embodying God's spirit, and as a community acting together to build God's temple among mankind.
But building a community in what was then a neglected land was an immensely difficult endeavour. Much of the ground was swamp, malaria was rife and infant mortality was high.
The Templers saw 'Zion' [Biblical synonym for Jerusalem and the Holy Land] as their second homeland, says David Kroyanker, author of The German Colony and Emek Refaim Street. But it was like being on the moon - they came from a very developed country to nowhere.
In fact, the Templers arrived in Palestine more than a decade before the first large-scale immigration of Jewish Zionists, who fled there to escape destitution and pogroms in Russia - and in many ways they served as a model for the Jewish pioneers.
Initially the Templers concentrated on farming - draining the swamps, planting fields, vineyards and orchards, and employing modern working techniques unfamiliar to Palestine (they were the first to market Jaffa Oranges - produce from their Sarona settlement near Jaffa).
They operated steam-powered oil presses and flour mills, opened the country's first hotels and European-style pharmacies, and manufactured essential commodities such as soap and cement - and beer.
In his book The Settlements of the Wuerttemberg Templers in Palestine 1868-18, Prof Alex Carmel of Haifa University observes how the Templers soon gained a reputation for their skills and their diligence. They built exemplary colonies and pretty houses surrounded by flower gardens - a piece of their homeland in the heart of Palestine.
Symbols of their fervent religious beliefs are still evident in the Jerusalem neighbourhood where the Templers began to settle in 1873. They named the district Emek Refaim (Valley of Refaim) after a place in the Bible, and verses from the Scriptures, inscribed in Gothic lettering, survive on the lintels of their former homes.
Most of the buildings, with their distinctive red-tiled roofs and green shutters, are intact (protected by a preservation order) and lend the district a continental elegance which has helped make it one of Jerusalem's most expensive areas.
In the first years of Jewish immigration, in Palestine the know-how in terms of agricultural and industrial modernisation was in the hands of the Germans, notes Jakob Eisler, a Templer historian in Stuttgart.
A Biblical verse on the lintel of a former Templer house in the German Colony, which reads: Arise, shine, for your light has come, and the glory of the Lord rises upon you. Isaiah 60, 1
Although they were few in number, they had a very big impact on the whole of society, and especially on the Jews who came there, he says.
Without the help of the Templers it would have been much more complicated for the Jewish settlers to establish so much.
If you compare the modernity of Jewish colonies in the 1880s and '90s with the German colonies at that time, the Germans are leading.
While Palestine was worlds apart from Germany, the Templers remained fiercely patriotic, proudly retaining their German citizenship and even their Swabian dialect.
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Bethlehem (; Arabic: بيت لحم Bayt Lahm Arabic pronunciation: [beːt.laħm], House of Meat; Hebrew: בֵּית לֶחֶם Bet Lehem, Hebrew pronunciation: [bet ˈleχem], House of Bread; Ancient Greek: Βηθλεέμ Greek pronunciation: [bɛːtʰle.ém]; Latin: Bethleem; initially named after Canaanite fertility god Lehem) is a Palestinian city located in the central West Bank, Palestine, about 10 km (6.2 miles) south of Jerusalem. Its population is approximately 25,000 people. It is the capital of the Bethlehem Governorate. The economy is primarily tourist-driven.The earliest known mention of the city was in the Amarna correspondence of 1350–1330 BCE during its habitation by the Canaanites. The Hebrew Bible, which says that the city of Bethlehem was built up as a fortified city by Rehoboam, identifies it as the city David was from and where he was crowned as the king of Israel. The Gospels of Matthew and Luke identify Bethlehem as the birthplace of Jesus. Bethlehem was destroyed by the Emperor Hadrian during the second-century Bar Kokhba revolt; its rebuilding was promoted by Empress Helena, mother of Constantine the Great, who commissioned the building of its great Church of the Nativity in 327 CE. The church was badly damaged by the Samaritans, who sacked it during a revolt in 529, but was rebuilt a century later by Emperor Justinian I.
Bethlehem became part of Jund Filastin following the Muslim conquest in 637. Muslim rule continued in Bethlehem until its conquest in 1099 by a crusading army, who replaced the town's Greek Orthodox clergy with a Latin one. In the mid-13th century, the Mamluks demolished the city's walls, which were subsequently rebuilt under the Ottomans in the early 16th century. Control of Bethlehem passed from the Ottomans to the British at the end of World War I. Bethlehem came under Jordanian rule during the 1948 Arab-Israeli War and was later captured by Israel in the 1967 Six-Day War. Since the 1995 Oslo Accords, Bethlehem has been administered by the Palestinian Authority.Bethlehem now has a Muslim majority, but is still home to a significant Palestinian Christian community. Bethlehem's chief economic sector is tourism, which peaks during the Christmas season when Christians make pilgrimage to the Church of the Nativity, as they have done for almost 2,000 years. Bethlehem has over 30 hotels and 300 handicraft workshops. Rachel's Tomb, an important Jewish holy site, is located at the northern entrance of Bethlehem.
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- President Trump arrived in Bethlehem Tuesday during a two-day visit to Israel as part of his first trip abroad as president and vowed to do whatever necessary to broker peace between Israel and the Palestinians. This comes as Palestinians across the West Bank and Gaza launched a general strike Monday to protest Trump’s visit to Israel and Palestine and to show solidarity with Palestinian prisoners currently on hunger strike in Israeli jails. We get an update from Jerusalem, where Nathan Thrall of the International Crisis Group notes leaders on both sides are unsure what to expect from Trump, who made negative comments about Israel on the campaign trail. That’s really the locus of the fear on the Israeli side with respect to Trump, Thrall says. It’s the notion that he could really try and exert pressure on Israel, threaten real consequences in the U.S.-Israeli relationship, if Israel were not to agree to, let’s say, the outlines of an American proposal for a settlement of the conflict or the outlines of an American proposal on which the two sides would negotiate and work out the details. Thrall argues that if Trump uses his leverage, we’re looking at a totally different Israeli-Palestinian peace process than we have seen in the past.
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Israel: 'The Palestinians are ready to reach for peace' - Trump
US President Donald Trump concluded his visit to Israel with a joint press conference alongside Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu at the Israeli Museum in Jerusalem on Tuesday. First Lady Melania Trump and US Secretary of State Rex Tillerson were sighted in the audience.
Netanyahu said that a durable peace between Israel and its Arab neighbours was possible because of the common danger that the Arab world and Israel face from Iran. He also said that the rewarding and glorification of terrorists had to stop in order to achieve genuine peace, something he felt was possible with Trump.
Trump emphasised the importance of coalition building in order to stamp out extremism and violence and provide a hopeful future for children in the Middle East, which required the world to fully recognise the vital role of the state of Israel.
The president also stated that he had a meeting with Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas: The Palestinians are ready to reach for peace. I know you've heard it before. I am telling you - that's what I do - they are ready to reach for peace he said.
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Reax to hotel with Banksy artwork in Bethlehem
(3 Mar 2017) REACTIONS TO HOTEL WITH BANKSY ARTWORK IN BETHLEHEM
A Palestinian guest house packed with artwork of the elusive British graffiti artist Banksy was unveiled on Friday (3 MARCH 2017) in the West Bank city of Bethlehem.
According to the owner, Wisam Salsaa, the nine-room establishment named The Walled Off Hotel will officially open on March 11, but he offered a handful of reporters a tour of the hotel looking directly at the West Bank separation barrier erected by Israel.
The barrier is heavily decorated by artists, and Banksy has previously painted several murals on the wall.
The hotel is awash in the trademark satirical work of the mysterious artist.
The highlight is room number three, known as Banksy's Room, where guests sleep in a king-size bed underneath Banksy's artwork showing a Palestinian and an Israeli in a pillow fight.
The hotel also features a presidential suite and a museum with the artist's politically-charged work.
Gavin Grindon, co-curator of the hotel's museum, said the artwork also interprets Britain's role in the Middle East and especially Palestine.
He said the museum tells the story of the separation wall built by Israel as a barrier with the West Bank.
Banksy has made previous forays into the Palestinians territories.
In one secret visit, he drew a painting of a girl pulled upward by balloons on the barrier facing his current project.
The artist's satirical stencils - rats, kissing policemen, riot police with yellow smiley faces - first appeared on walls in Bristol before spreading to London and then around the world.
His artwork comments on war, child poverty and the environment.
His identity remains a mystery, but his works have fetched as much as 1.8 (m) million U.S. dollars at auctions.
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Banksy x Danny Boyle The Alternativity
The story of how Britain’s favourite artist Banksy teamed up with Britain’s favourite film director Danny Boyle to put on a moving nativity play at The Walled Off Hotel in December 2017.
Banksy's 'Walled Off Hotel' causes a stir in the West Bank
The Walled Off Hotel used to be a pottery workshop. Now it seems set to attract crowds of people when it opens on March 20.
Banksy has collaborated on and reportedly financed the West Bank lodgings, which overlook the wall separating Israel from the Palestinian Territories.
According to the British artist, the hotel offers a warm welcome to people from all sides of the conflict and across the world.
It's owner, Wisam Salsaa added:
This is the hotel that has the worst view in the whole worl…
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WRAP Adds Israeli bite on tanks withdrawing to outskirts
outside Jenin, West Bank (night)
1. Armoured Personnel Carrier (APC) driving away from camera
2. Close-up of crew on top of APC
3. Various of APC door opening and troops outside APC
4. Close-up of crew on top of APC - pulls out to show vehicle driving away
5. Tank driving past camera
6. Various of APCs/vehicles driving past camera and away
outside Jenin, West Bank (day)
7. APC driving towards camera and away from building/ check-point
8. Close-up of crew on top of APC - pulls out to wide of vehicles
9. Troops getting out of APC
10. Various of APCs driving towards and past camera
11. Truck driving past
12. Various of helicopter(s) overhead
13. Wide of street
14. Various of APC
Jerusalem
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16. SOUNDBITE (English) Mark Sofer, Israeli Government Spokesman:
The redeployment of Jenin is going according to the schedule, as you may recall, it was the meeting between Prime Minister Sharon and Secretary of State Powell just a few days ago - Prime Minister said we would be out of there within a few days - we are out of there on schedule, as planned. There are now basically two more, or two remaining spots that have to be dealt with. One is the Church of the Nativity in Bethlehem where about 50 to 80 members of the people of the cloth are being held hostage by Palestinian gunmen and are not allowed out of the church - and on the other hand the compound of Arafat where he is holding some of the worst terrorists, those responsible for paying for the suicide bombers, those responsible for the murder of the Israeli government minister - and we insist of course that these people be brought to trial. So I would say in conclusion that we are redeploying according to schedule, we will continue to do so, we never had any intention and we don't have and we never will have any intention of staying in the Palestinian territories.
17. Cutaway of Sofer speaking
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Israel pulled back its tanks from the West Bank town of Jenin on Friday, redeploying its forces on the outskirts of the town and preventing Palestinians from entering or leaving.
The move meant residents could search for relatives and belongings in the devastated refugee camp. A United Nations official recently called the scene in Jenin, horrifying beyond belief.
The Israeli military said the withdrawal from Jenin was completed overnight and Israeli forces took up positions just outside, preventing Palestinians from entering or leaving.
Palestinians have demanded that Israel remove all its roadblocks. After the pullout, the military declared Jenin a closed military area and banned reporters from entering.
Speaking in Jerusalem on Friday, Israeli government spokesman Mark Sofer said the redeployment of troops at Jenin was going to schedule.
He listed the siege in Bethlehem of Palestinian gunmen at the Church of the Nativity and Palestinians holed up at Yasser Arafat's compound in Ramallah as two remaining issues that need to be dealt with by Israel.
But Sofer also said the Israeli government never had any intention of retaining troops in the Palestinian territories.
The three-week West Bank operation began as a response to a series of Palestinian suicide bomb attacks.
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Reax from Jerusalem and Gaza to Arafat's death
Jerusalem
1. Israelis in the street
2. SOUNDBITE: (English) Israeli Voxpop on Arafat's death
I am saying that if it was God's will that he should go and try to have no horizons in the Middle East for peace, then it's a given and we have to try to work with that and see what we can do. But I think, I don't know if there is someone in the Arab camp who will gain control that would be serious to negotiate with us for a serious settlement.
3. SOUNDBITE: (English) Israeli voxpop on Arafat's death
Well, I don't know, (I feel) mixed, sad. glad.
Question: Why sad? Why glad?
It's always sad when someone dies, you know. But I'm just curious, I was just telling a friend, to see how they day is going to progress. So, it should be interesting.
Gaza
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5. Various of car tyres burning in street
6. Various of people glueing Arafat poster to car
7. Boy holding up poster
8. Closed shops
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10. People walking on the street
11. SOUNDBITE: (Arabic) Voxpop:
It is bad news but it was not a surprise. His death is a big loss to the Palestinians and the Arab nation.
12. Arabic schoolchildren in street
13. Lock on closed shop
14. SOUNDBITE: (Arabic) Voxpop,
May God bless his soul and I hope the youth follows his path in fighting (the occupation) and God willing peace will reign and I call on our leaders to be united and stop fighting each other.
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Ramallah, West Bank
15. Palestinian cabinet minister Saeb Erekat walking
16. SOUNDBITE (English) Palestinian cabinet minister Saeb Erekat
Arafat's legacy will be the one, the leader, the president who united the Palestinian people, the leader who kept the Palestinian national identity from extinction. The man who initiated the peace of the brave. The man who united the Palestinian people and it's his legacy of peace, it's the determination today that we continue the path of freedom and independence and peace, the path of an independent Palestinian state with East Jerusalem as its capital.
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There were mixed reactions in Israel and the occupied territories to news of the death of Palestinian leader Yasser Arafat on Thursday.
Many Israelis considered Arafat little better than a terrorist.
But those who spoke to APTN on Thursday said they did not take pleasure in his death.
Most seemed more concerned about what would happen now the leader of the Palestinians had died without a clear successor.
In Gaza local gunmen put on a show of force while others displayed pictures of their dead leader.
In East Jerusalem Palestinians and Israeli Arabs reacted with sorrow.
Many shops were closed.
In Ramallah Palestinian cabinet minister Saeb Erekat said Arafat would be remembered as the leader who had kept Palestinian national identity from extinction.
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Israel Gaza border resident to UN: Peace will come when Hamas stops terror
Adele Raemer, a resident of Kibbutz Nirim, testified before the UN Security Council in its periodic hearing on the Middle East on Wednesday, December 18. She is the first Israeli who lives near the Gaza border to address the Security Council at the invitation of US Ambassador to the UN Kelly Craft, who is serving as president of the Security Council this month.
Israel: ‘We will never forget’ - Putin addresses Holocaust commemoration event
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Russian President Vladimir Putin said that the atrocities of the Nazis were some of the darkest and most shameful pages of modern world history, addressing the 5th World Holocaust Forum in Jerusalem on Thursday.
The Russian leader also paid tribute to the Soviet sacrifice to stop the Nazis.
They defended their fatherland and brought liberation from Nazism to Europe. We paid for this at a price that had never been imagined in the worst dreams of any nation. Twenty-seven million dead. We will never forget this.
He went on to call for the leading nations in the world to defend and preserve civilization.
We must have the courage not only to say this directly, but to do everything to protect and defend the world. An example, in my opinion, can and should be given by the founding countries of the UN, the five powers that have a special responsibility for the preservation of civilization, said Putin.
Several world leaders and dignitaries including French President Emmanuel Macron and UK's Prince Charles are attending the 5th World Holocaust Forum entitled 'Remember the Holocaust, fighting antisemitism' at the Warsaw Ghetto Square in Yad Vashem.
The ceremony marks the 75th anniversary of the liberation of Auschwitz and the International Holocaust Remembrance Day.
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