News & opinions from a Palestinian-American
living & working in Ramallah/Al-Bireh, Palestine
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This week in 1982, 41 years ago, in full coordination with the Israeli military which had invaded South Lebanon a few months prior, a group of “Christian” Phalangist fundamentalists, entered two Palestinian refugee camps, Sabra and Shatila, and slaughtered around 3,000 Palestinian civilians.
![An American Evangelical Christian Man’s Awakening to Palestine [Book Review]](https://epalestine.ps/sambahour/wp-content/uploads/2022/07/glory-to-god-1544954625.png)
The author of this memoir, Glory to God in the Lowest: Journey to an Unholy Land, Rev. Don Wagner, is a longtime friend. Back in the day, Rev. Wagner was based in Chicago, Illinois and I was in Youngstown, Ohio. We both were engaged in the same struggle for Palestine. Subsequently, when I relocated to Palestine, I would speak to the various eyewitness delegations he led to the Holy Land, or what he prefers to call the “unholy land” — which, he writes, “serves as a place of injustice that awaits the arc of the moral universe bending to usher in justice, peace, and reconciliation.”
![“The Woman I Left Behind”, a novel by Kim Jenson [Book Review]](https://epalestine.ps/sambahour/wp-content/uploads/2025/02/the-woman-i-left-behind-a-novel-by-kim-jensen.jpg)
The Woman I left Behind is much more than an untraditional love story. A Palestinian refugee and a young American woman become equally entangled in the each other’s past, present and future. Their story is interwoven with class struggle, national aspirations, careers, love, and the good and bad of each other’s culture. Both of them, searching for a meaningful relationship, find that courage is needed when they are confronted with the opportunity to learn about themselves through the other.
!["The Arabs in Israel" by Sabri Jiryis [Recommended]](https://epalestine.ps/sambahour/wp-content/uploads/2025/03/the-arabs-in-israel.jpg)