in 2013, I visited the Holy Land with an introduction to meet-up with a South African-born, Jewish, Catholic Jesuit priest, David Neuhas SJ. This is this is my story from that time. And Now, in 2024, I find it very interesting to read what that same Jesuit has to say about the situation between …
oday, we leave the modernity of Jerusalem behind and enter Palestine. We’re driving east from Jerusalem descending through the Judaean Desert ending in a steep escarpment that drops to the Dead Sea and the Jordan Valley. Emerging from a tunnel under Mt Scopus, I get my first sighting of ‘The Wall’ and illegal Israeli settlements …