by Lela Gilbert | Mar 31, 2017 | American Foreign Policy, Christians and Minority Rights, Jerusalem Notebook, Jews and the Jewish State
During recent years, dramatic political changes have shaken the Middle East. Some have described these events metaphorically as “shifting desert sands.” They have also been defined as dramatic realignments of political seismic plates. Some of the more terrifying...
by Lela Gilbert | Mar 22, 2017 | Christians and Minority Rights, Current Events, Jerusalem Notebook, Jewish-Christian Relations, Jews and the Jewish State
When I first set foot in Jerusalem in August 2006 – arriving in the country in the midst of the second Lebanon War – one of the earliest discoveries I made was that truth is sometimes hard to identify in the not-always-holy Holy Land. I also found out that truth isn’t...
by Lela Gilbert | Nov 14, 2016 | Christians and Minority Rights, Current Events
It is painful to recall the events of late summer 2014, when the Islamic State killed or expelled thousands of Christians from their historic homeland Iraq’s Nineveh Plains. Most of them fled to Erbil, Kurdistan. Later that year, I was fortunate enough to visit the...
by Lela Gilbert | Aug 29, 2016 | Christians and Minority Rights, Muslims and Muslim Majority States
Time is running out for Asia Bibi, a Pakistani mother of five and death-row prisoner whose legal representatives have filed one last appeal to spare her life. Her long-awaited supreme court appeal will finally be heard during the second week of October. According to...
by Lela Gilbert | Aug 1, 2016 | Christians and Minority Rights, Jerusalem Notebook
It’s a surprisingly short drive from West Jerusalem to Bethlehem – 10 or 15 minutes, at the most. But on a hot summer night a couple of weeks ago, it felt like I had traveled light-years, setting out from a bustling city-center Jerusalem neighborhood and arriving at a...
by Lela Gilbert | Jun 2, 2016 | Christians and Minority Rights, Jerusalem Notebook, Muslims and Muslim Majority States
Encouraging reports continue to emerge about significant improvements in Israel’s relationship with Egypt. With Cairo battling an explosive ISIS presence in the Sinai Peninsula, and destroying Hamas smuggling tunnels into Gaza, news of quiet cooperation between the...
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