Through My Eyes

Tag: middle-east

  • Ayda Refugee Camp

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    Iris Keltz
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    Photo taken by Iris keltz in Ayda Refugee Camp in the Occupied West Bank. 1948 is the date of the Palestinian Nakba. Over 500 villages were destroyed, erased, bulldozed, destroyed. In Jaffa, Haifa, Acre, Ramleh, Lynda, and more Palestinian homes filled with their owners’ belongings were given to homeless Jewish immigrants. Palestinian watched their villages…

  • Gaza on my mind

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    Iris Keltz
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    I remember Gaza in 1998. I was traveling with a group sponsored by Neve Shalom/Wahat al Salaam/the Oasis of Peace. A unique village in Israel where Palestinian and Jewish Israelis lived in community sending their children to the same school where they learned each other’s language, history and customs. Our tour included Gaza. Abject fear made me…

  • Unexpected Bride in the Promised Land has finally been published

    Unexpected Bride in the Promised Land has finally been published

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    Iris Keltz
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    Nighthawk Press: Pub. date: May 1, 2017Historical Memoir, 293 pp. $19.95 paperbackAvailable at bookstores, online retailers, orNighthawk Presshttp://www.nighthawkpress.com/titles/unexpected-bride-promised-land/Iris Keltz might be the only Jew, American or Israeli, to have found sanctuary with the Palestinians during a war that changed the face of the Middle East. The Israeli military victory in 1967 should have been a…