November 15, 2024
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Comments for: Christmas in Bethlehem, 2001

Last year, writing from Jerusalem, I described Christmas Eve in Bethlehem as a “silent night” during which “no bells jingle, no lights twinkle, and no Santas chant ho-ho-ho.” The usually cheerful event was a casualty of then three-month-old Israeli-Palestinian violence. One year later, despite an explosion of hostile… Read More

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