We Hold These Truths' Executive Director C. E. Carlson made a trip through Palestine to get a first hand account of the activities there.  Here are his impressions from his journey: Stone-Throwers to Be Treated Like Gunmen OCCUPIED JERUSALEM (IAP News) - The Israeli occupation army has issued unwritten instructions to its soldiers ordering them to shoot and kill Palestinian children throwing stones on Israeli tanks and armored personnel carries, Israeli radio indicated. The Israeli radio said instructions stipulated that soldiers should treat stone-throwers on equal footing with gunmen opening fire on Israeli forces, meaning that soldiers should shoot and kill the stone throwers. Bush's Body Language President George W. Bush has twice repeated his feeble call to Israel to get out of the West Bank, and Israel has again refused, as expected. The second time, on Monday, April 8, President Bush is said to have shaken his finger when referring to Prime Minister Sharon and said, "When I say stop, I mean it." Some have said Bush is giving out weak and uncertain signals to our Israeli allies; others say he is becoming increasingly forceful and did not realize how determined Sharon is to punish the Palestinians. But both statements are false and could not be further from the truth... Why War in Gaza What does Israel’s war against the Palestinian Arabs in the West Bank and the Gaza Strip have in common with America’s serial wars all over the globe, now centered on Afghanistan? The common denominator is that American money and weapons are used in every such war. Israel enjoys the approval and unconditional support of the American government. That means that no act that Israel does or has done will arouse serious objection from America’s leaders. In this Part V, we will examine why the War for Palestine is no closer to ending now than it was when it began, 54 years ago, and why the American government is financing the Israeli side in its brutal path... Attacking Islam Two One intelligent question we are asked over and over again and must be answered Why is America warring against one Islamic country after another? Is it because Arabs are sub-human, as Israelis claim, or are Muslims terrorists as the American press subtly suggests; or, is it an anti-Islamic agenda among our nation’s leaders that they do not share with us?... Life In The Gaza Strip Gulag This writer left the Gaza Strip on March 10th. During the preceding week over 100 Palestinians were killed and hundreds were wounded and a number of Israelis died. I interviewed Muslims and Christians Arabs, including evangelicals; a co-ed college English class; a PLO officer and a United Nation aid worker--both off the record; the chairman of a mental health organization treating traumatized children; a businessman resident of a refugee camp; a young Muslim woman named Shireen who wanted to talk to America on the record; a number of workers and numerous youths in several Internet cafés and several Israeli travelers and businessmen. I also witnessed and photographed from my rooftop an Apache helicopter raid that killed four Palestinians and wounded 30 more. The edition(s) to come will lay the blame for the 52-year slaughter and suggest a low-cost, no-lives-lost solution to the problem and a humane course for Americans to follow... Witness to Execution in Gaza When asked where I was going, I told the cab driver, "to Gaza to see the Palestinians." He responded, "Why do you want to see those animals." His were the first words I heard from the mouth of an Israeli when I entered through fashionable Elate on the Red Sea... People Against Tanks in Gaza Everyone I met in Israel wanted me to come as a tourist, but no one wanted me to go a place called the Gaza Strip in occupied Palestine. Israel claims the Gaza Strip and its million plus inhabitants as a part of Israel. Thanks to my friends, who encouraged me, I went, without them I would not have gone. God helped overcome the obstacles such as closed gates and the propaganda resistance of all those who did not want me to meet the people in Gaza and write about them... Tourism and Politics from Thebes Dozens of riverboats motor on the south Nile (upstream) between the site of the great Aswan dam that flooded the ancient Nubian villages and Luxor, which was known as Thebes in Jesus’ time. One wonders what the population could have possibly done other than build monuments. These ancient ruins are everywhere and more lie buried under the sands. At tenth-century mosque and British embassy at Luxor were both built on stone outcroppings of what proved to be a 25-meter high buried temple. It made a great foundation because the mosque is still there, the ground floor perched atop temple walls of a forgotten past... A Short Walk into the World's Largest Prison Across the border from the Egyptian Sinai town of Taba is Elate, the posh Israeli tourist town on the Red Sea. If one approaches Taba from the Egyptian side, as our auto did, it appears like a mirage out of a fog bank that shrouds the sea cliff margin with the vast desolation of the Sinai. I was unprepared for the sight of half billion-dollar casinos rising from the steep red rocks of the Red Sea coast. Only a few miles behind us, our van had sped past a herd of 20 or more wild camels nosing in the sparse vegetation...