Life Lines; Even Amid the Hatred of the West Bank, Donald Maclaughlin Found Ways to Sound a More Positive Note
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You don't expect your life to change reading the church newsletter. Yet for Donald Maclaughlin, nestling among the baptism notices and snippets on the latest garden fete was a request which would do just that - and see him head out to one of the most troubled regions in the world.
Maclaughlin, a retired army major from Strachur in Argyll, spent three months this year as a church observer in the small Palestinian farming village of Jayyous, on the West Bank. His role, organised by the World Council of Churches, involved overseeing relations between villagers and the Israeli Defence Force.See the full content of this document
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Life Lines; Even Amid the Hatred of the West Bank, Donald Maclaughlin Found Ways to Sound a More Positive Note
There was much to oversee. Farmers in the area are cut off from 60 per cent of their land by Is...
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