Recognizing Israel, Recognizing Palestine

MOJ readers in the Twin Cities may be interested in a talk being given tomorrow night at the University of St. Thomas by Fr. David Smith, Professor Emeritus at the UST and founder of the University's Justice and Peace Program.  The title of Fr. Smith's talk is Recognizing Israel, Recognizing Palestine: three months with a peace team in the occupied territories of Palestine.  As the title suggests, Fr. Smith has recently returned from three months in the Middle East and will talk about his experience with the peace team.  The talk, which is free and open to the public, will be at 7:00 p.m. in Room 126 of the John Roach Center at the UST (Summit and Cleveland Avenue, St. Paul, Minnesota).

The peace team's reports can be accessed here.  See here for a video of the Bethelehem checkoint on a typical day at 4:00 a.m.