A Macintosh PowerBook was stowed away in our hotel room for uploading. Every 5 days, we updated the MECA Web site with new pictures and narrative. Bissan Center Research and Development for their help with phone line access to the Internet. With our base in a hotel in East Jerusalem, we ventured out each day to meet activists, academics, women, parents, government officials, workers and others. Our mission was to better understand the situation after the Oslo Accords .
Bus ride to hotel in East Jerusalem.
Bus tour of Israeli settlements in the greater Jerusalem area. After dinner talk by Roni Ben Efrat , a longtime Israeli peace activist and a founder and current editor of Challenge Magazine . Visit to Abu Ghneim where construction has begun on the Har Homa Settlement. Visit to YMCA Rehabilitation Center . Drive around Bethlehem to see roadblocks .