The following collection of essays comprises a series of periodic reports, reflections, commentaries, and analyses on the effects of violence and nonviolence in the Occupied Territories and Israel, and Iraq - being sent to a growing list of e-mail addressees by former television network journalist, Jerry Levin. He has been serving as a full time volunteer with CPT (Christian Peacemaker Teams), an international violence reduction organization, at its base in the Israeli controlled section of Hebron in the West Bank of Palestine and Jerusalem, and in Iraq.
Jerry Levin's essays up until April 2005 have been compiled into a book, West Bank Diary: Middle East Violence as Reported by a Former American Hostage. For information about ordering Jerry's book from CPT please click here.
Report #72 - Practice Makes Perfect
Report #71 - Snapshots Without Pictures
Report #70 - While You Were Gone: Giving Hebron A Heart Attack
Report #69 - Mordechai: "Next Time I Won't Take A Taxi"
Report #68 - Unfit Partners
Report #67 - Looking For A Partner Who Will Say "Uncle."
Report #66 - Tip O'Neill and the election in Palestine
Report #65 - Déjà Vu All Over Again for Mordechai Vanunu II
Report #64 - Déjà Vu All Over Again for Mordechai Vanunu
Report #63 - Welcome To Jerusalem
Report #62 - Sharon: A depreciation
Report #61 - While You Were Gone: The Stealth Hawks
Report #60 - Relaxing The Grip But Not The Hold
Report #59 - What Will They Take Away Next?
Report #58 - The Twilight Zone
Report #57 - Because We Are Palestinian
Report #56 - While You Were Gone: The Forest and the Trees
Report #55 - Closure, confiscation, connivance and cupidity Part 6
Report #54 - Closure, confiscation, connivance and cupidity Part 5
Report #53 - Closure, confiscation, connivance and cupidity Part 4
Report #52 - Closure, confiscation, connivance and cupidity Part 3
Report #51 - Closure, confiscation, connivance and cupidity Part 2
Report #50 - While You Were Gone: Closure, Confiscation, Connivance and Cupidity
Report #49 - Waiting For Justice
Report #48 - Valentine's Day 1985 Remembered
Report #47 - Mordechai Vanunu Interview: Last Installment
Report #46 - Mordechai Vanunu and "The Double Standard"
Report #45 - Mordecai's Not So Excellent Christmas Eve Adventure
Report #44 - Mordechai
Report #43 - Seasons Greetings
Report #42 - CTSD! Part 3
Report #41 - CTSD! Part 2
Report #40 - CTSD!
Report #39 - Remembrance of horrors past and present: Iraq 2004/Lebanon 1984
Report #38 - While You Were Gone: Episode III
Report #37 - "Piece Process" Update
Report #36 - Which Came First?
Report #35 - Only Half The Story
Report #34 - Now The Sun Sets at 2:30
Report #33 - The Sad Sounds Of Silence
Report #32 - This Report Is Not About Palestine
Report #31 - Bad Fences Don’t Make Good Neighbors
Report #30 - We Get Letters
Report #29 - Mirror Mirror On The Wall
Report #28 - While You Were Gone Episode II
Report #27 - The Baladyeh and the Baptismal Font - Part 3
Report #26 - The Baladyeh and the Baptismal Font - Part 2
Report #25 - The Baladyeh and the Baptismal Font - Part 1
Report #24 - Catch Twenty Twos In The Land of Milk and Honey
Report #23 - "While You Were Gone."
Report #22 - These Things Take Time
Report #21 - Will The Real Ali Baba Please Stand Up
Report #20 - Waiting For Garner
Report #19 - Questions And Some Answers
Report #18 - A Tank Called "Hostile"
Report #17 - Bush Broke It. Why, Doesn't He Fix It?
Report #16 - Robbing The Cradle
Report #15 - Where Have All The Love Birds Gone?
Report #14 - Who Is Babylon?
Report #13 - Trusting God More and Our Military Less
Report #12 - Supposing Everything West Of The Mississippi Was Palestine
Report #11 - The Dying Stones
Report #10 - Road Rage
Report #9 - Nights Of The Furies
Report #8 - There Goes The Neighborhood
Report #7 - School Daze in Hebron (Director's Cut) Part 2
Report #6 - School Daze in Hebron (Director's Cut) Part 1
Report #5 - "Have A Nice Day"
Report #4 - "Looking For The Big Fish"
Report #3 - "The Settlers Are Angry"
Report #2 - "Our God Will Kill Your God!"
Report #1 - "Sometimes I think everything is area Z."
The preceding series of reports is taken from a longer series of micro-reports, commentaries, and or analyses that I will be sending routinely from the Occupied Territories and other areas in the Middle East. If the information or ideas seems helpful, please feel free to forward them to others. It would be a privilege to add their names to this mailing list, if so requested to me at: jlevin0320@yahoo.com. As always I will be grateful for feedback.
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Jerry and his wife, Sis Levin, are currently based in the Middle East (working at various times in Palestine/Israel, Iraq, and Jordan), where they are involved in projects promoting nonviolence as a means for creating a more stable peacemaking environment in the Holy Land and elsewhere.
Jerry is working as a full time volunteer with CPT (Christian Peacemaker Teams. Its West Bank base is in Hebron), while, Sis, a CPT reservist, has also been working as a volunteer at Bethlehem based Holy Land Trust teaching teachers how to teach peace.
Jerry was Cable News Network (CNN) Middle East Bureau Chief Lebanon in 1984, when he was kidnapped by extremists and became the first of the so-called forgotten American hostages.
Dr. Lucille (Sis) Levin, an internationally known peace educator and certified professional mediator, attracted international attention in the mid 1980s in connection with her successful nonviolent reconciliation focused effort to create conditions by which Jerry was able to escape from his captors.
The Levins home base is Birmingham, Alabama. They have five children and eleven grandchildren.