The Destroyed Villages and a People Removed

Greetings from Nazareth!

There is not much time this morning at there are people waiting.

Yesterday, we visited four villages in Israel where Palestinians were forced to leave their homes and the land in 1948. In each village, a person who was lived there, told their story. It made the "Nokba even more powerful as the personal story always does. 750,000 people were driven out of their homes and 512 villages were destroyed. Little is discussed about this in our "data base" in the States. Yesterday, I heard a conversation by one of our participants with a Jewish couple with their children who were having a picnic on the grounds of a former village. When asked if they knew that this land was once inhabited by 4,ooo Palestinians, he said, "we know, and we don't like to be reminded" .

Tomorrow we leave for Jerusalem, and I will have access to an internet cafe. This computer is the only one around. See you on Monday. Love, Bill