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If you're looking for a tour, day trip or fun things to do and see on your Palm Springs Vacation, you'll find it here! See our complete guide to the most popular - and interesting - local Palm Springs tours - plus great places to stay in Palm Springs, Ca.
Palm Springs offers a wide variety of guided tours and self-guided tours that provide insight into the beautiful Palm Springs Desert Area Resorts area. Tours include Celebrity Home Tours, Architectural Tours, Nature Tours, Open-air tours, helicopter tours, Jeep and Hummer tours, walking tours and even a tour conducted on a stand-up scooter called a Segway. Plan your Palm Springs visit here with our complete guide to terrific Palm Springs Ca area tours.
Palm Springs Celebrity Tours
"The Grand Tour"
Address: 67555 East Palm Canyon Drive
Palm Springs, CA 92264
Phone: 760-770-2700
Among the most popular Palm Springs tours is the Palm Springs celebrity tour, "The Grand Tour," is a 2 1/2 hour tour-bus ride showing off the luxurious history of the Coachella Valley and the estates of stars that helped put Palm Springs on the map, such as Frank Sinatra, Walter Annenberg, the Marx Brothers, and more. "The Grand Tour" departs at 10:00am Monday through Saturday and costs $44 for adults, $40 for seniors, and $19 for children 14 and under. This tour can be particularly relaxing as it involves little or no walking and plenty of air-conditioning.
Don't miss "Sinatra on Saturaday." This is the Grand Tour with more of Frank Sinatra's properties in Rancho Mirage added to the tour.
Celebrity Tours also offers private tours starting at $79 per person. Private celebrity homes tours include pick up from your hotel or vacation home.
Palm Springs Celebrity Tours
Tour Originates at the shopping center across from Target and Trader Joe's in Cathedral City
Address: 67555 E Palm Canyon Dr
Phone: 760-770-2700
Website: www.celebrity-tours.com
Palm Springs Elvis Honeymoon House
Home Tour
Address: 1350 Ladera Circle
Palm Springs, Ca 92262
Phone: 760-322-1192
Guided tours are available through what is known as the Palm Springs Elvis Honeymoon hideaway, highlighting the marriage of Elvis and Priscilla Presley, recognized by People magazine as one of the great romances of the 20th century.
A well-informed house tour guide explains the memorabilia and mentions the many interesting stories about Elvis and Prescilla, including the fact that Lisa Marie was born exactly nine months from the date of the honeymoon.
A short film features the highlights on the mid-century-modern architecture of this famous Palm Springs house plus interesting Palm Springs info highlights. A box lunch is available upon request and souvenirs are available for purchase. Visitors will be shown the famous "escape route" which left the press in front of the house speechless as the famous couple flew to Las Vegas to be married. Also, visitors will be treated to seeing old photographs of Elvis "in the Building."
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in Palm Springs, Ca.
Address: 1350 Ladera Circle
Phone: 760 322-1192
Website: www.elvishoneymoon.com
Reservations in advance are required
Palm Springs Indian Canyons Tour
The Indian Canyon Tour is a beautiful 2 1/2 hour adventure through the various Canyons of the Coachella Valley. Visitors ride in open air jeeps and go on a 30-minute nature walk, where an experienced guide tells of plants, animals, native lore, geology and local earthquakes.
The tour also teaches visitors all about the history of native Cahuilla Indians and how they survived in the harsh heat of the desert.
Best of the Best Tours
Palm Springs Rich & Famous City Tours - A village of Palm Springs tour, the Rich and Famous tour takes tourists through the beautiful city of Palm Springs to learn about its history and development. The area has a large collection of custom built homes and creative architecture.
On the 1 and one half hour tour, the guide will teach about dozens of celebrities who called Palm Springs home, and play a game called "Called Guess the Star's Homes."
Address: 490 S Indian Canyon Dr, Palm Springs, Ca 92262
Phone: (760) 320-1365
Palm Springs Windmill Tour
When arriving into the Palm Springs area, the towering giant windmills are hard to miss. The "Palm Springs Windmill Tour" provides information about the efficient energy source that the Department of Energy anticipates may supply as much as 20% of US electricity by the year 2030, and why this Desert area location was chosen for a high concentration of active windmills.
The Windmill tour will also stop at some of the projects to learn about the windmills themselves, boasted as the most comprehensive tour of the windmills in America.
All three Tours cost $35 for adults, $30 for seniors and $10 for children.
Phone: (760) 320-1365
Website: www.thebestofthebesttours.com
The Palm Springs Elvis House
Address: 845 W. Chino Canyon
Palm Springs, Ca 92262
Phone: 760-322-3211
Elvis' private quarters (his private bedroom that he kept for himself) is available for short-term rental or for special event rental. Today this actual former residence of Elvis is used as a private residence located at 845 W Chino Canyon, in the Chino Canyon area of Palm Springs.
Completely different from the Elvis Honeymoon Hideaway, this Palm Springs home was purchased by Elvis and Priscilla Presley on April 14, 1970, and the deed of trust included both of their names when this property was purchased. Public record of the deed shows ownership in both names. This is the only house in Palm Springs that Elvis actually owned.
Along with their two-year-old daughter, Lisa Marie, the Presley's moved into the only property they ever owned in Palm Springs, California on 845 W Chino Canyon Rd, Palm Springs, Ca 92262.
Although Elvis and Priscilla rented a smaller residence in Palm Springs known as the "Elvis Honeymoon Hideway" in Palm Springs for a short period of time in the late sixties and spent their first night of marriage in that leased property, the only home that bears the famous Presley name on a California Deed of Trust in Palm Springs is this Chino Canyon residence.
Today, this spacious 5,100 square foot mansion situated on nearly two prime Palm Springs acres located high up in a popular area of north Palm Springs, has been designated as an historic property. By law, the Presley home must be maintained as it was when Elvis himself first walked through the front door of this spectacular.
For more information about the Palm Springs Elvis house, please contact Reno Fontana or Laura Fontana at phone 760-322-3211 or email: email@example.com. This Elvis House is available for rent for lodging or to host special events.
Website: ww.pselvis.com
Palm Springs Jeep and Bike Tours
Phone: 760-779-1837
With great tour guides, the Palm Springs Jeep and Bike tours take visitors to some of the areas scenic back country locations in Palm Springs. There are several tours available ranging in costs from $85 to $149 per person, one of the longest tours provide a five-hour Joshua Tree Adventure tour will show views of the Mojave and Colorado deserts untouched by human interaction.
Filled with fascinating geology and rocky canyon walls, The San Andreas Fault tour features "the most tortured landscape on earth," and the most colorful area of the 800 mile long San Andreas Fault, which is responsible for all California earthquakes. The San Andreas Fault Tour lasts 4-5 hours. Tour cost: $129. per person.
The Earthquake Canyon Express is a relaxing 20-mile downhill bike ride through the Colorado and Mojave deserts. The course winds through Box canyon and provides views of the Salton Sea, Mt. San Jacinto, the All-American Canal and the agriculture of the Coachella Valley. It departs at 8am and 1pm every day and costs $85 per person.
Website: www.bwbtours.com
Tahquitz Canyon Tour
Tahquitz Canyon in Palm Springs
Address: 500 W. Mesquite
Just west of Palm Canyon Drive
in downtown Palm Springs
Phone: 760-416-7044
The Tahquitz Canyon tour provides breathtaking beauty and beautiful mountain vistas. Featuring a 60-foot waterfall, rock art, ancient irrigation systems, native wildlife and plants, Tahquitz canyon is a beautiful and popular cultural area of the Agua Caliente Reservation in Palm Springs California. Ranger-led interpretive hikes last about 2 ½ hours, leaving every 2 hours, and aim to teach visitors all about the ancient rock formations and the history of the Agua Caliente Indians. Self-Guided hikes are also available from opening time at 7:30 to 3:30. Admission to Tahquitz Canyon costs $12.50 for adults and $6 for children 12 and under.
Website: www.tahquitzcanyon.com
Adventure Hummer Tours
Pickups at Ralphs Shopping Center in Palm Desert and many area hotels
Address: 74884 Country Club Drive
Palm Desert, CA 92260
Phone: 760-285-0876
Phone Toll Free: 877-WE-HUMMER
"We are the largest daily tour operator into Joshua Tree National Park and the Canyons of the San Andreas Fault. Our famous yellow Hummers go into 2 billion year old canyons and arrive at Summit Point inside Joshua Tree."
We take you to the BEST LOCATIONS other tours cannot go...
Where other local tours must turn around, we can explore more of the Canyons of the San Andreas Fault. With our special permits and superior vehicles, we climb higher into a place call the "transition zone" at 3000 feet within Berdoo Canyon. Visit Canyons over 2 billion years old and walk over a bridge that straddles the San Andreas Fault.
We are the only daily tour that can take you into this area. Don't miss this magical place.
It is where the Colorado and Mojave Deserts meet in one of the oldest canyons in the United States. Take your cameras!
We follow the backroads to Joshua Tree National Park with special permits with the National Park Service.
Where it takes about an hour for other tour companies just to reach the National Park from Palm Springs, our first stop is within 15 minutes of your departure!
We have THE BEST VEHICLES.
We provide a unique experience on a variety of exciting open air H1 Hummers as well as luxury H2 Hummers. Also ask about our stretch Hummer and luxury bus additions.
Our vehicles are reoutfitted with brand new clean burning engines and enhanced suspensions.
All vehicles offer FORWARD FACING stadium seats - an enhanced experience in comfort and scenery.
We have THE BEST GUIDES
All guides have taken mandatory geology courses with the National Park's own Desert Institute, passed rigorous driving tests and are enrolled in the CHP Pull program to insure driver safety and compliance with DMV excellence.
We have THE BEST REPUTATION. We are consistently chosen as the best Eco Tour by Palm Springs' finest hotels as the preferred vendor for its guests to visit Joshua Tree National Park with SPECIAL PERMITS with the National Park Service. We are also AAA and TripAdvisor recommended.
Website: www.AdventureHummer.com
Palm Springs
"The Best of the Best" Tours
Tour #1: Best of Best Tours
First stop for Tour #1: Andreas Canyon, second largest palm oasis in North America will take you on a 30 minute nature walk with information on plants, animals and native American lore as well as earthquake faults. Here you'll see the home to the largest palm oasis, Palm Canyon, with over 3,000 native palms. At the "trading post shop, you'll have the chance to buy a Palm Springs souvenir or refreshments if you so choose. This tour time: 2 hours to 2 hours 30 minutes. For reservations, call (760)320-1365, Tour #1. Price: $35.00
Tour #2 Best of Best Tours The Rich & Famous Tour
Tour #2: The Palm Springs Rich & Famous Tour. On this tour you will travel through the City of Palm Springs on a guided tour and learn interesting facts about the beautiful city of Palm Springs, California. You will drive through the famous neighborhood of Las Palmas, often referred to as the "Beverly Hills of Palm Springs" because of its large gated private walled & gated estates and luxurious custom homes. In driving through the neighborhood of Old Las Palmas, you'll be treated to a game of "guess the stars" homes. This neighborhood features all custom homes and is fascinating. For reservations for Tour #2, call (760)320-1365. Price: $25.00
Tour #3: Best of Best Tours
The Windmill Tour
On this Palm Springs area tour, you'll travel through fields of towering silently spinning white windmills. You'll feel the energy as the enormous propeller blades of the windmills swoosh high overhead.
You'll learn why NASA has declared this area known as the San Gorgonio Pass as one of the most consistently windy spots on Earth. Informed tour guides will present info on the history of wind power and tell where the wind-generated electricity created here goes.
These elegant and slender windmills, hundreds of them, are works of art themselves. This tour time is 90 minutes. For reservations The Windmill Tour #3, please call (760) 320-1365. Price: $25.00
Tour #4: Best of Best Tours
The Palm Springs Bonanza
First stop on this tour is Andreas Canyon, the second largest Palm oasis in North America. Here, on the first stop of this tour, you'll be able to take a guided and narrated 30 minute tour, a nature walk, with info on native animals, plants, as well as earthquake faults. This tour area is home to 3,0000 native palm trees. At the "trading post" on this stop, a snack stop and store, you are welcome to buy, if you like, a souvenir or snack or beverage.
On the next stop of this tour, you'll visit the wind turbine to discover interesting facts on the production of wind power.
The final segment of this tour (tour #4) is a guided tour to the glamour of Palm Springs rich and famous with a drive-by narrated "celebrity home tour." This tour time, tour #4, is 3 hours 30 minutes to 4 hours in length. To reserve this tour #4 called "The Palm Springs Bonanza," please call (760) 320-1365. Price: $69.00
Palm Springs Architectural Tours by Segway
Step onto a Segway PT (upright scooter) and join the Palm Springs architectural guide Robert Imber for an up close and personal look at some of the desert's most notable architecture. We will provide complete training and safety equipment. All you provide is the desire for the most unique one of a kind experience you ever had. Reservations are necessary for the tour scheduled. Tour is limited to small a group. email: firstname.lastname@example.com
Palm Springs Guided Tour
by Segway Scooter
Phone: 760- 200-6693
Email: email@example.com
Palm Springs Tours & More
Palm Springs Tours & More offers local sightseeing of the Movie Stars Homes & Hideaways, Mid-Century Architecture, Palm Springs History and Desert Sightseeing. Join our private customized tours or comfy bus tours which run anywhere from a couple hours to all day visiting locations throughout Southern California. Book ahead for annual trip on January 1st to The Pasadena Rose Parade. firstname.lastname@example.com attn: Melody
14080 Palm Drive #175
Desert Hot Springs, CA 92240
Elite Land Tours
HUMMER Adventure Tours
Palm Springs Area Tours
Hummer H2 tours to magnificent unspoiled, remote Palm Springs area locations. Experience a sense of outdoor beauty and adventure and discovery with an unexpected twist - luxury! We'll take you to breathtaking locations in air-conditioned comfort in the world's best-in-class all-terrain HUMMER H2 with knowledgeable, expert guides. All tours include resort pickup, admissions, gourmet snacks, and an assortment of refreshments.
540 South Vella Road,
Palm Springs, CA 92264
Toll Free or 1-760-318-1200
Jurassic Expeditions
Palm Springs Ca Area
Experience "Earth in Motion," three-hour luxury motor coach eco-adventure tour of the San Andreas Fault.
Phone: 760-862-5540
Palm Springs Windmill Tours
Learn how the more than 3,500 windmills generate one and a half percent of California's electricity. Bring your cameras and hang on to your hats because it's windy near the windmills! The tours are conducted Wednesday through Saturdays. Please call for times and more information. Price $10.00 to $25.00 dollars.
Windmill Tours
Originate from the Spa Resort & Casino
Phone: 760-320-1365
100 N. Indian Canyon
Sky Watcher Star Tour
Look up! Nobody does nighttime better than the gorgeous sky-lit desert skies. Sky guides will lead you on the star-gazing tour of a lifetime.
44-489 Town Center Way
Palm Desert, Ca
Phone: 760-345-2363
Desert Adventures Eco Tours & Events
The famous Red Jeep tour company is proud to be the longest running and most respected tour company in the Greater Palm Springs Area. That's because their quality and service are unmatched.
When you book a tour with Desert Adventures, you are guaranteed to visit the most scenic viewpoints, best points of interest, and have one of the most memorable, entertaining and involving experiences of your life!
Why Desert Adventures is #1:
- Most Experienced: They've been in business over 25 years. That's longer than any other tour company. They are the most respected operator in the area.
- Best Guides: They have the most highly trained and knowledgeable guides. Most guides have been with them 15+ years. Their guides constantly update their information to make sure it is accurate and relevant.
- Most in-depth tours: You will spend quality time at your destination on your tour. You will visit the most amazing points of interest while your expert guide explains secrets and little know facts.
- All-inclusive pricing: Their tours includes park entrance fees and meal packages are available. There are never any hidden costs or fees.
- Eco-friendly touring: They practice responsible eco-tourism, including a "Take Only Memories, Leave Only Footprints" philosophy. Select tours use eco-friendly CNG-powered, climate-controlled vehicles.
Many tours are available including Indian Canyons, San Andreas Fault, Joshua Tree National Park and more!
Address: 74-794 Lennon Place, Suite B, Palm Desert, CA 92260
Phone: 760-324-5337
Toll free: 1-888-440-5337
Website: www.red-jeep.com
Palm Springs Walking Tours
Phone: (760) 333-2705
Address: 193 S. Palm Canyon Drive,
Palm Springs, Ca
Website: www.pswalkingtours.com
Enjoy entertaining and informative walking tours of downtown Palm Springs with a professional guide.
October - May
Wednesday, Thursday, Friday, and Saturdays
- The Architecture of Palm Springs - 9:30am
- Palm Springs Past to Present - 4:30pm
- Ghosts and Legends of Palm Springs - 7:30pm, Thurs, Fri, Sat Only
The Walking Tours meet at 193 S. Palm Canyon Drive. Tours last approximately 70-90 minutes and cost $15 a person.
Call 760-333-2705 or visit pswalkingtours.com for more information
Palm Springs Helicopter & Airplane Tours
Experience the Palm Springs area's natural beauty of the San Jacinto Mountains from the sky - with un-beatable vistas of the gorgeous Palm Springs desert resort area.
Custom helicopter and airplane tour packages are available the Palm Springs California area by Dedicated Helicopters, Inc. The tours are available via Dedicated Helicopters, a company that in addition to tours provides VIP helicopter transportation throughout Southern California plus sightseeing, tours, movie, TV camera services, and commercial helicopter flight operations.
For More Information or to schedule reservations for your Palm Springs Helicopter Tour
Phone: 760-898-9601
Website: www.dedicatedhelicopters.com
Palm Springs Area
Hot Air Balloon Rides Flights
Phone: 760-347-0410
Add to your vacation in Palm Springs experience by enjoying your own private Palm Springs aerial tour high above the hot-air Balloon Above the Palm Springs Desert area. This tour offers flights daily at sunrise and sunset. You can enjoy peacefully floating over the greater Palm Springs area in the worlds first form of aviation. A vacation experience for your enjoyment!
Website: www.balloonabovethedesert.com
Palm Springs Desert Area
Hot Air Balloon Charters
For Reservations call
Phone: 760-398-8575
Hot air balloon chartered Champagne flights over the beautiful Palm Springs area landscape.
Phone: 760-398-8575
Fantasy Balloon Flights of Palm Springs
Fantasy Balloon Flights promises "the best time you've had in years!" Sunrise or sunset champagne adventures in state-of-the-art balloons with champion pilots. Group, senior and family discounts.
Phone: 760-568-0997
Toll free: 800-GO-ABOVE
Website: www.fantasyballoonflights.com
Palm Springs Helicopter Tours
Landell's Aviation
Palm Springs area helicopter tours with mountain-experienced pilots
Phone: 760-329-6468
Palm Springs Midcentury Modern
Palm Springs Modern Tour
Architecture Tour
Phone: 760-318-6118
Iconic Palm Springs Architecture
Guided by an energetic, knowledgable and entertaining local expert and historian of all things Midcentury Modern, Robert Imber, the Palm Springs Modern Tour owner and tour guide, this is a very informative and comprehensive three-hour city-wide overview of Palm Springs mid-century modern architecture and heritage, both residential and commercial buildings.
On this tour you can learn about the masters of mid-century design who lived and worked in Palm Springs (Frey, Wexler, for example) as well as the internationally famous designers who brought innovation to the desert architecture in the mid-20th century era such as Neutra, Lautner and others.
The Palm Springs Midcentury Tour is small (mini-van) so advance reservations are encouraged. Palm Springs Mid-century Modern Tours Phone 760-318-6118.
Palm Springs Architecture
The Modern Tour, Palm Springs
By Architectural Author Michael Stern
Twin Palms Frank Sinatra Estate in Palm Springs
You are invited Join Michael Stern, author of the Rizzoli publication "Julius Shulman: Palm Springs" as he escorts you on a private tour of Palm Springs' amazing collection of mid-century modern architecture.
View the work of Richard Neutra, John Lautner, Donald Wexler, Albert Frey and William Cody. Celebrity homes include Frank Sinatra, William Holden, Elvis Presley, Elizabeth Taylor, Peter Lawford and numerous others.
Private, residential interiors of some of Palm Springs most fabulous homes are featured on this tour. For more information please call Michael Stern, phone (760) 904-0904
Palm Springs Architectural Tours
Interiors Exteriors
Website: www.themoderntour.com
Email: email@example.com
Phone (760) 904-0904
The Modern Architectural Palm Springs California Area
The O'Donnell House Tour
Overlooking the Palm Springs California
Mountain Range
O'Donnell House tour guests will be ushered up the long up-hill driveway by carts and will be amazed by the incredible mountain views. Tour participants will enjoy a 90 min. tour, beginning with the Palm Springs area Native American lore and the arrival of John Guthrie McCallum in 1884. The tour will encompass the early days through to the current. The house is filled with beautiful original tiles and stonework. It is meticulously restored with all period furniture (1920's).
Visitors on this tour will also learn about the history of Thomas O'Donnell (an oilman and Palm Springs pioneer who also built and funded the O'Donnell Golf Club) in downtown Palm Springs and Nellie Coffman and their major contributions to the Palm Springs area. They will then be carted back down the hill, hopefully a little wiser about the valley and the history of Palm Springs.
To schedule a tour:
O'Donnell House Tour
Phone: 760-880-9358 or
Toll free: 800-966-9597
Location: 412 West Tahquitz Canyon Way
Website: www.thewillowspalmsprings.com
Palm Springs Area Ground Tour
Little Hollywood Tours
AAA Five Star Adventures
Take an exclusive step inside the Elvis House, the home where he lived and made music, on the original Best of Palm Springs Tour. This is a tour of "Little Hollywood," the glamorous movie colony, and the history of the valley in a comfortable coach.
Include the Indian Canyons with thousands of towering palms, spectacular rock formations, and clear running streams. On Thursday, add the Aerial Tramway. Get on board the Jeep and ride off road on the San Andreas Fault Line. Visit a lush palm oasis and take easy walks in the Badlands. Or enjoy a tour of Joshua Tree, one of America's most unique and beautiful parks. Explore the Mojave and Colorado Deserts and see Joshua Trees, cactus gardens, desert wild life, and a stunning vista from "Keys View" all the way to Mexico.
Tour info: 760-320-1500
Toll free: (800) 951-9495
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Big Wheel Tours
Joshua Tree Area
Rugged off-road tours to Joshua Tree and red Canyon. On or off-road bike tours available and bicycle rentals also available. Guided hiking tours through the Indian Canyons, the Salton Sea or the San Andreas Fault.
Website: www.bwbtours.com
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Offering a variety of Tours of the Palm Springs area including Indian Canyon Tours Every Day. Available tours include the Rich & Famous City/Celebrity Tour; Every Day Windmill Tours. Each Wednesday, Thursday & Saturday at 9:00 am until 11:00 am plus 2:00 pm, The Bonanza Tour. Also offering combination tour of Indian Canyons; The Celebrity Tour and the Windmill Combo Tour; Indian Canyon - Celebrity - Combo Tour; Celebrity Tour; Windmills.
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Celebrity Tours
Imagine yourself living the good life in the Palm Springs area on one-and-two-hour guided sight seeing tours to movie stars homes, country clubs or the Greater Palm Springs area's unique date tree farms.
Phone: 760-770-2700
Website: www.celebrity-tours.com
ClassiCab Taxi Tours
Palm Springs Calif Area
Bask in air-conditioned comfort in luxury sedans and vans as you pass by celebrity homes or travel to hiking tours. Day trip to Los Angeles, wineries and San Diego, Multilingual drivers. Or customize your own tour ride with ClassiCab Taxi of Palm Springs, Ca.
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More info, Phone: 760-322-3111
Website: www.classicab.com
Covered Wagon Tours
of Coachella Valley Preserve
Step back in time on a covered wagon drawn by draft mules. This tour is narrated for individuals or groups. Western cookouts and live entertainment. September-June only.
Phone: 760-347-2161
Website: www.coveredwagontours.com
Desert & Beyond Tours
Desert & Beyond Tours offering you an array of tours. Enjoy an interactive tour of the grandest sites in the Coachella Valley & Palm Springs celebrity homes. What to go beyond the desert? Not a problem, we also offer tours to Various Locations, and the Price is right.
2377 Tahquitz Canyon Way
Palm Springs, Ca 92262
Phone: 760-673-7334
Desert Safari/Trail Discovery
You'll be inspired on eco-tours and guided hikes of Indian Canyon, Joshua Tree and the mountains beyond the Tram. Tours available in length of two hours to a full day. Also offering Full-moon night expeditions. Runners welcome.
Phone: 1-760-325-HIKE (4453)
Toll free: 1-888-324-HIKE
Website: www.desertsafari.com
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Cottage / 2 bedrooms / sleeps 4
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20 yards from Bigbury-on-Sea's big and splendid sandy beach, and looking at Burgh Island over the low-tide sandy causeway, is this truly excellent and very greatly appreciated development of 29 high quality apartments of which we let 12, and, within the building, a very good private Leisure Club. The views over the sea to the south and west, and at low tide of a huge expanse of smooth washed yellow sand reaching to Burgh Island, are outstanding. The island's jolly pub, The Pilchard, is fun to visit (long-legged sea tractor at high tide).
All the apartments have those sensational views, are double-glazed, marvellously light, with large living/dining/fitted kitchens, glazed doors to balconies or terraces. They are privately owned and individually furnished. Smallish bedrooms at the back (no views) with good quality en suite, internal, tiled bath or shower-rooms. Most have easy access (short walk from the car and between 5 and 9 steps down to the lift). Parking for one car at the back of each property and some extra space for guests. Arrival after 4pm.
The Leisure Club, open from 10am every day (closed Christmas Day; open from 11am to 3pm on Boxing Day and from 12pm to 4pm on New Year�s Day), has a fine indoor kidney-shaped swimming pool (40� x 20� x 4�6"), spa pool, extensive, well-equipped gym (treadmill, steps, cycles, Concept II Rower, and other instruments of torture) and sauna (no children under 14 in gym or sauna). The smart bar provides coffee/drinks through the day and light meals, cream teas and a children�s menu (variable opening hours), served either in the Club or for you to take to your apartment. Comfy lounging area (sofas, WiFi broadband) and outside terrace facing the sea. There are changing rooms, a shower and disabled loo.
Prices include everything - linen, towels, heating, electricity and use of the Leisure Club facilities from 10am.The building is three-storey. The ground floor (but still high above the beach) apartments have big terraces, the first floor apartments have very good-sized balconies, the top ones have smaller balconies (room for four people to sit comfortably though).
No 16. First floor: stunning sea views over the magnificent sandy beach to Burgh Island and out to sea (telescope provided). An exceptionally stylish apartment with attention to detail. Light, spacious open-plan living/dining/kitchen with TV/Sky/DVD, PlayStation 3, wireless music system, iPod dock and glazed doors to good-sized balcony (table/chairs); fitted kitchen area with granite work surface (dishwasher, washer-drier, microwave, fridge-freezer, cooker with induction hob). Two bedrooms (TV/DVDs, iPod docks) � double (5' bed) with en suite shower-room (suite), and twin with en suite bathroom (suite). Beach toys provided.
Size | Sleeps up to 4, 2 bedrooms |
Access | Car advised |
Family friendly | Great for children of all ages |
Notes | No pets allowed, No smoking at this property |
Features and Facilities
Luxuries | Private indoor pool, Jacuzzi or hot tub, Sauna, Internet access, DVD player, Sea view |
Pool | Private indoor pool |
General | TV, Telephone, Satellite TV |
Standard | Kettle, Toaster, Iron |
Utilities | Dishwasher, Cooker, Microwave, Fridge, Freezer |
Rooms | 2 bedrooms, 2 bathrooms of which 2 Family bathrooms |
Furniture | Double beds (1), Single beds (2), Cots (1) |
Other | Towels provided, High chair |
Outdoors | Private indoor pool |
Further details indoors | Please bring your own beach towels. The agent has its own star rating system to quantify interior quality, comfort and ambience. This property has been rated 5 star. |
About this location
The Devon region
The South Hams: southernmost Devon; between the river Dart and river Tamar and south of Dartmoor, lush farmland and wooded river valleys turning to beautiful estuaries, its coast very beautiful and remarkably well preserved � sandy beaches and mighty cliffs between those estuaries, amazingly little sprawling modern ugliness. Inland too, away from main roads, it remains surprisingly peaceful.
Among special coastal places are Dartmouth; sheltered Blackpool Sands; Slapton�s long curve of pebble beach and nature reserve lagoon; the cliffs about Start Point and Prawle Point, Bolt Head and Bolt Tail; East Portlemouth�s beach and Salcombe�s location and views; Thurlestone proving that family seaside places don�t need to be brash; Bigbury�s huge sands and the fun of getting to Burgh Island; waterside, oak-wood-sheltered Noss Mayo/Newton Ferrers; many others, less easy of access, are for you to discover.
Kingsbridge and Totnes, both old, attractive and small, are the towns at the area�s heart; Plymouth � the West Country�s biggest town, with Naval base, ferry port, theatre, cinemas, history, Hoe (great views) and Barbican (where the life is) � is on the area�s edge. Dartington Hall is an arts centre (films, plays, music, dance) with lovely gardens. Pleasure cruisers ply the Kingsbridge estuary and Dart and Tamar rivers.
Bigbury-on-Sea: village with south Devon�s biggest sandy beaches (The Venus Caf�, Takeaway and Surf School, seasonal beach shop), stretching to Burgh Island (The Pilchard pub; famous art deco hotel - you can walk to it at low tide, go by long-legged tractor at high). Good windsurfing; fine cliffs for walking and sea-bird watching. Golf, 1 mile. Nearest shop, 3 miles. Kingsbridge, 10 miles; Salcombe, 15.
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Why Your Editor is Your Friend
Today's guest post is by Lindsay Bell.
Jason Konopinski is a funny guy.
He's an even funnier guy when he uses words like 'ding-danged,' as he did in a recent Facebook post.
To quote: "Bloggers, for all that is good and holy, COPYEDIT YOUR DING-DANGED POSTS."
While that status update sparked some great chatter around 'writers – vs – authors' and whether any monkey with a typewriter can publish a book these days, it boiled down to one undeniable fact: Writers – any writers – need editors.
Blame Your Brain
According to The National Geographic, our brains are hardwired to make sense of what we see, hear, smell, touch, and taste, and (this is important) it's hardwired to fill in missing pieces with whatever our expectations suggest should be there. It's evolution, baby. And it makes it very difficult to edit one's own work.
As mentioned above, that's why those 'if you can read this {gobbledygook}…' posts are so much fun. When you attempt to self-edit, your brain automatically relies on hundreds of thousands of years of wiring. Nine times out of 10 your brain will 'see' your grammar, spelling, or verbiage as correct, even if it isn't. Your brain already knows what it's looking for; it wrote it in the first place! D'uh.
It's not that hard to counteract these unconscious brain corrections. One little trick I use is to read my work backwards, and from bottom to top. This is a great way to see spelling errors and the like, because your mind isn't making sense of these seemingly random words. However, it doesn't help you correct odd turns of phrase, or things such as punctuation errors.
Mistakes Cost Money
That said, there are many other reasons why a great editor is a treasure to have on standby.
MarketingProfs shared a fascinating tidbit from the UK. After a spelling error was corrected at tightsplease.co.uk, the online retailer's revenue per visitor doubled. In this case, poorly written copy clearly registered, consciously or not, as the potential for shoddy business practices.
An experienced editor understands everything has a voice, and whether you're writing for a brand, magazine, newspaper or corporate blog, he/she will a) know that voice intimately and b) ensure continuity of that voice.
This is extremely important as your most loyal customers/readers will be expecting consistent, quality content. They won't appreciate The National Enquirer if they are expecting The New York Times.
What an Editor Brings to the Table
- Editors watch out for the basics such as awkward run-on sentences, grammatical and spelling errors, and other run-of-the-mill writing issues. But they also look for the overall structure of the piece, such as flow and readability. You might have buried the lead, mixed metaphors, or your third paragraph might be more suitable as your opener. Yes, your work might be changed, and if you can't deal with that you shouldn't be writing.
- They keep their eyes peeled for accuracy, fairness, redundancy, and taste. Your editor will either fact check your work, or ask you to provide links to quoted articles. Of course, your work should already have been checked and rechecked prior to submitting it to your editor. Pay special attention to people's names and titles.
- An editor's goal is to protect the writer (you) and by extension, the project or organization. A good editor will read through the eyes of their audience, and will never assume the audience knows what you're talking about. So, if you make a big, bold, sweeping statement, expect to be challenged on it and be prepared to back it up with statistics/proof. If you can't back it up, it shouldn't be published.
I understand people are human beings who make typos and other mistakes. I want people to have fun with language, inject life into their writing, or even break a few old-school grammar rules. Most of us, these days, write as we speak, and none of us speak like our fifth grade grammar workbooks. But still, it seems like these days, we are seeing more quantity over quality. And no matter the pace of the world we all live in today, quality still matters.
Lindsay Bell is the content director at Arment Dietrich, and works in Toronto. A former TV producer, she's a strong advocate of three minutes or less of video content. She has a cool kid, a patient husband, two annoying cats, and the newly adopted Hank, a vizsla and foxhound mix, who arrives very soon!
About Lindsay Bell
Lindsay Bell is the content director at V3 Marketing, and works in Toronto. A former TV producer, she's a strong advocate of three minutes or less of video content. She has a cool kid, a patient husband, two annoying cats, and Hank Dawge, a Vizsla/Foxhound/moose hybrid. Ok, maybe not moose.
@shonali Thanks for sending that out Shonali! :) Also, guest post soon...? You have my email! cc @ginidietrich
Lindsey, I really like what you said in point three. I do feel that editors are there to protect me as a writer. I get that I have problems. I don't think it makes me a terrible writer at all, errors happen.
@AmyMccTobin has a point too. Blogs get rewarded for speed, consistency, and quantity of posts. A small business is not going to be able to afford someone to look over everything they write.
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I cannot proof my own work - my eye sees what I think should be there. With that being said, @susansilver and I have had this discussion repeatedly regarding blog posts. What IF there is a typo? We can't all have editors for our blogs... and sometimes we make mistakes. I think websites, prominent blogs like this one, business literature etc. should have higher stands. The small business person blogging for their small audience may not be able to hire an editor.
Ok. You do know after reading this I will never write another thing. Between you and @Danny Brown optimizing images for blog width I have lost all confidence to do anything myself. So, how much?
@AlisonWordsmith Cheers Allison, thanks for the share! #proudNewBrunswickerhere :) cc @ginidietrich
"But still, it seems like these days, we are seeing more quantity over quality. And no matter the pace of the world we all live in today, quality still matters." @belllindsay , this can't be said enough.
Letting yourself ignore quality for reasons of convenience is a slippery slope.
Can you get paid doing this? Maybe I want to be an editor when I grow up; I can read....most words at least........
I'm persnickety about typos, but some people don't like to be corrected all.the.time. That's when I break out the Kung Fu grip however........
Okay, I have to share one of the mistakes Erin found. It is sort of awesome.
"The Berlin unit's report should also be arriving by currier soon." <The correct word is courier.
Currier is a word, but it means: a person who dresses and colors leather after it is tanned. Obviously, that was not what I intended. It was a simple spelling error. Now, my work is slightly better and I have a new word in my vocabulary that I'm just dying to use correctly.
Agnes said, "He was a fine lad and a skilled currier."
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@belllindsay sure thing, it was a solid read. Have a great weekend. @shonali @ginidietrich
@AmyMccTobin @susansilver I think what I'm talking about here though is consistency - yes errors happen (I had some in this piece! LOL) - and that plays back to the "we are only human" part - but when there are consistent typos or larger grammatical errors I think that's a problem. Dare I say that it's even MORE important for SMBs as they are the ones scratching for clients/customers. They have to show reliability and quality - maybe more than your massive conglomerate with a bazillion brand fans.
@rdopping Bottle of Glenmorangie Port Wood and I'm yours. :)
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@Joshua Wilner/A Writer Writes Would Tom publish a song with errors in it? I think not. :)
@barrettrossie Don't you find Barrett that there are more and more posts and articles that read like they're just being pumped out of a factory...?? I do.
@bdorman264 People have been correcting me here like little gramar nazis. LOL I'm so proud. :)
@ExtremelyAvg I miss things like that in other people's writing at times too Brian. The brain reads it as a properly spelled word - and if it sounds the same, well....although that did make me laugh out loud. ;)
@belllindsay @rdopping @Danny Brown I agree, Ralph has been beating into submission. Mark that as another win.
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@belllindsay @barrettrossie I think SEO has a real issue in that it can reward you for publishing a ton of content in a short period of time. It encourages low quality work while trying to tell us to set a quality standard.
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@barrettrossie Yes, but fortunately you were there to help. I appreciate it.
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@belllindsay later would be better. Some time around 20th to 25th ish would be perfect
@ExtremelyAvg @belllindsay @rdopping @Danny Brown It's okay. I had a typo in my post about editors. Umm...yeah, that.
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@rdopping @ExtremelyAvg @Danny Brown Sounds about right to me. #SpinSucksCrazyClowns
@ExtremelyAvg @belllindsay @Danny Brown Sure. Laugh at the clown with his clown shoes, his clown hair, his clown nose and his white and black polka dotted parachute pant-suit.......wait, is this the right site? Dammit.
@belllindsay @rdopping @Danny Brown If one wants to play with the big dogs in an editing post, one must come strong!
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@belllindsay @rdopping @Danny Brown Damn, I should have edited before I hit post. I'm so ashamed. I've embarrassed myself, my parents, my editor, Erin, and a host of long dead relatives.
Commenting on an editing post is hard.
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This is a great side dish that is perfect for this time of the year. The sweet and savory flavors of the Yam and Walnut in this salad are sure to please you and your guests on any occasion.
Yam and Walnut Salad
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4 - 5Ingredients
- 2 medium sweet potatoes
- 3/4 cup chopped red onion
- 1/2 cup walnuts
- 1/2 cup raisins
- 2 Tbsp maple syrup
- 1 Tbsp apple cider vinegar
- 1 tsp ground cinnamon
- 1/8 tsp cardamom (optional)
- 1/8 tsp nutmeg (optional)
- 1 pinch cayenne or chili powder
- Cut sweet potatoes/yams into cubes
- Combine honey, vinegar and spices together
- Pour mixture onto sweet potatoes and massage with hands
- Place on baking sheet and bake for 30 minutes in pre-heated oven @ 375 Fahrenheit
- Chop red onion (or white/yellow/green onion)
- After 30 minutes, remove from oven and sprinkle on chopped onion
- Place back in the oven and continue cooking for 30 more minutes
- Remove from oven and let cool for 10 minutes
- Place back in bowl and add walnuts and raisins
- Toss everything together and serve


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May 24, 2011 NORMAL, Ill. - Illinois State junior gymnast Chelsie Seplowin was awarded with the 2011-12 Nancy and Robert Northrip Endowed Scholarship Tuesday, which is presented annually to a junior gymnastics student-athlete athlete with at least a 3.0 grade-point average (GPA). The scholarship is named after Nancy and Robert Northrip, who are the owners of Ultimate Gymnastics in Chicago. Both have held a lifelong interest in gymnastics and participated in athletics while attending Illinois State. Nancy lettered in gymnastics for the Redbirds and Rob was a Redbird cheerleader. ISU gymnastics head coach Bob Conkling believes Seplowin represents the spirit of the scholarship. "I am pleased that Chelsie was selected as this year's recipient of the Northrip Endowed Scholarship," Conkling said. "She is one of the nicest people you will ever meet and is a very dedicated student-athlete. I think she has the perfect personality to work in the special education field after graduation and I know she will be an excellent teacher someday. She was a perfect recipient for this scholarship and I can't say enough about the quality person she is." Seplowin has been a consistent competitor on the uneven bars at Illinois State. The Lake Zurich, Ill., native competed in eight meets for the Redbirds during the 2010-11 season and posted a career-high 9.625 on the uneven bars in a dual meet at home against Denver (Jan. 30). A member of the AFNI Athletics Honor Roll in all four of her semesters on campus, Seplowin maintains a 3.62 cumulative GPA in special education. In addition, she was one of a school-record tying 63 student-athletes that recorded a perfect 4.0 GPA during the spring 2011 semester. "I feel extremely humbled to be honored with this scholarship," Seplowin said. "This was something I was not expecting at all and came as a great surprise to me. I want to thank the Nancy and Robert Northrip for their support of our gymnastics program and the entire athletic department at Illinois State. I will continue to work hard in everything I do to represent them and this great honor well."
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The 'Roadmap' to Palestinian Ghettos By Ghali Hassan Axis of Logic
Plans to isolate the Palestinian population in ghettos have been under way since the establishment of Israel on Palestinian land in 1948. Since then, Israel and its Western allies have embarked on a policy separating the Palestinian people into designated ghettoes and subjected them to daily terror. The complete isolation of Gaza and the construction of the illegal Apartheid Wall in the West Bank and Jerusalem are the foundations of permanent Palestinian ghettos. How long will the civilised world remain silent in the face of Israel's crimes and violations of international humanitarian law?
Immediately after the defeat of German Fascism, Zionism – a clone of Fascism – began its project of colonising Palestine and establishing a purely "Jewish State" with a European Christian culture. Jewish terrorist organisations such as Irgun, Stern Gang, and Haganah (today's Israeli Army) were formed – armed and financed by Western powers and wealthy Jews – to perpetuate a terror campaign of systematic ethnic cleansing and murdering of the native Palestinian population. By the end of 1948, some 400 Palestinian villages were destroyed, thousands of Palestinians were murdered and more than 750,000 Palestinians were forced to flee their homes to neighbouring countries. This well-orchestrated "ethnic cleansing" often refers to by Jewish Zionists and their Western supporters as the "war for independence". In reality, it was not a war, but one defenceless nation was wiped off the map, and a Zionist entity of European Jews was established on its foundation.
According to the Israeli historian, the Zionist Benny Morris, genocide was planned against the Palestinians, because "Palestinians are Barbarians", consistent with Theodor Herzl's – the 'founder' of Zionism – depiction of Palestinians as "dirty brigands". The idea of Palestinians and all Arabs as "barbarians" is not restricted to few Zionist Jews, but it is part of Israel's racist ideology. The recent racist comment by Olmert that, "the lives and well-being of Sderot's residents [a small Jewish colony outside Gaza] are more important than those of Gaza residents" is a case in point. The Nazis used the same racist rhetoric – 'Deutschland über alles' or 'Germany above all' – to justify their heinous crimes against ethnic minorities. The life of one Jew is worth more than all Palestinians has been Zionism's racist trade mark.
Morris regrets that Ben Gurion (former Israeli PM) didn't expel all Palestinians. Morris said: "If Ben-Gurion had carried out a large expulsion and cleansed the whole country – the whole Land of Israel, as far as the Jordan River ... If he had carried out a full expulsion – rather than a partial one – he would have stabilised the State of Israel for generations ... If the end of the story turns out to be a gloomy one for the Jews, it will be because Ben-Gurion did not complete the transfer in 1948, [and] because he left a large and volatile demographic reserve in the West Bank and Gaza and within Israel itself". This is like saying: 'If Adolf Hitler had exterminated all Jews, the world would be a peaceful place today'.
A recent opinion poll carried out by the Jaffe Institute for Strategic Studies in March 2002 revealed that between 46 % and 60 % of Israeli Jews support mass deportation (expulsion) of the Palestinians for the 'Final Solution'. "Even in 1938, these ideas have not had such wholehearted support in Nazi Germany, as they have now in the Jewish state", wrote the Israeli writer, Israel Shamir. Western media – led by the deceptive BBC – have gone long way to support this racist ideology and continue to depict Palestinian as "violent militants", without names and identity.
In an interview by Ari Shavit (Ha'aretz, 09 January 2004) Morris said; "In the months of April-May 1948, units of Haganah were given operational orders that stated explicitly that they were to uproot the villagers, expel them and destroy the villages themselves". Morris said that; "Haganah committed 24 massacres, in some cases four or five people were executed, in others the numbers were 70, 80, and 100. There was also a great deal of arbitrary killing. Two old men are spotted walking in a field – they are shot. A woman is found in an abandoned village – she is shot. There are cases such as the village of Dawayima [in the Hebron region], in which a column entered the village with all guns blazing and killed anything that moved.
"The worst cases were Saliha (70-80 killed), Deir Yassin (100-110), Lod (250), Dawayima (hundreds) and perhaps Abu Shusha (70). There is no unequivocal proof of a large-scale massacre at Tantura, but war crimes were perpetrated there. At Jaffa there was a massacre about which nothing had been known until now. The same [happened] at Arab al Muwassi, in the north. About half of the acts of massacre were part of Operation Hiram [in the north, in October 1948]: at Safsaf, Saliha, Jish, Eilaboun, Arab al Muwasi, Deir al Asad, Majdal Krum, Sasa. In Operation Hiram there was a[n] unusually high concentration of executions of people against a wall or next to a well in an orderly fashion".
Morris did compared Palestinian massacres with those condemned by the West as crime against humanity and affirmed that; "in comparison to the massacres that were perpetrated in Bosnia, that's peanuts. In comparison to the massacres the Russians perpetrated against the Germans at Stalingrad, that's chicken feed". The genocide of the Palestinians continues today with tacit support and complicity of Western governments and their mass media, was a well-planned campaign of to exterminate the Palestinians.
After the 1967 Israeli war against the Palestinians and neighbouring Arab countries, Israel forces occupied territories in Syria, Egypt and Gaza, the West Bank, and Jerusalem in Palestine. The Israeli Occupation was condemned by the UN and special resolution (Resolution 242) passed demanding the immediate withdrawal of Israeli forces from all occupied Arab territories. In flagrant violations of UN Resolution and international law, Israel continues to occupy Arab lands.
In addition, since 1967, Israel has violated countless UN resolutions and embarked on a Zionist ideology of expansion and annexation of Arab lands. Israel continues to demolish Palestinian homes and build illegal Jewish settlements (colonies) on Palestinian land. Israel continues its policy of confiscating Palestinian land and expelling Palestinians into designated ghettos.
Consistent with Israel's "annexation plan" or "convergence plan" – as is called today – to isolate the Palestinian into Nazi's-like ghettos, the rest of the occupied West Bank will be divided into three big ghettos. The three big ghettos then divided into nine smaller ghettos separated from each other by walls, and Jewish-only highways. In addition to total restrictions on freedom of movement, the ghettos are manned by countless military checkpoints and razor wires making life unbearable for the Palestinian population. The aim is to prevent any possibility of establishing a viable Palestinian state and subject the Palestinians to servitude, thus the final dispossession of the Palestinian people from their land.
Jews who lived in and experienced the Nazi's ghettos have often made the comparison between Israel's brutal treatments of the Palestinian people and the Nazis' brutal treatments of Jews. In a letter to the Israeli press more than twenty years ago, Jewish holocaust survivor Shlomo Shmelzman wrote: "In my childhood I have suffered fear, hunger and humiliation when I passed from the Warsaw Ghetto, through labour camps, to Buchenwald. I hear too many familiar sounds today, sounds which are being amplified by the war. I hear about 'closed areas' and I remember ghettos and camps. I hear 'two-legged beasts' and I remember 'Untermenschen' [subhumans]. I hear about tightening the siege, clearing the area, pounding the city into submission, and I remember suffering, destruction, death, blood and murder…Too many things in Israel remind me of too many things from my childhood". (Ha'aretz, 11 August 1982). Israel's terror and crimes have since increased by many folds.
Unlike the German ghettos, which were provisional, Israel regards the Palestinian ghettos as permanent measure to control Palestinian lives. Further, Israel uses the ghettos as investment for the benefit of the Israeli economy. Israel is moving highly polluting industry and sweatshops to industrial zones around the ghettos where Palestinians will be used (forced) as slaves to provide cheap and abundant labour. In addition, Palestinian ghettos are open-air prisons completely controlled by Israel.
The building of a long, snake-like wall, known as the 'Apartheid Wall', – condemned as illegal by the International Court of Justice (ICJ) in The Hague – on stolen Palestinian land annexes 58 per cent of the West Bank. The ICJ' ruling was that the Wall and all settlements (Israeli colonies) in the West Bank, Gaza and Jerusalem are illegal and must be removed. The ICJ ruling, like all other world court rulings, requires all other (nations) signatories to the ICJ Charter to compel Israel's compliance with the ruling.
A health review by Dr. Derek Summerfield, of the Institute of Psychiatry in London found that; "The coherence of the Palestinian health system is being destroyed. The wall will isolate 97 primary health clinics and 11 hospitals from the populations they serve. Qalqilya hospital, which primarily serves refugees, has seen a 40% fall in follow up appointments because patients cannot enter the city. There have been at least 87 documented cases (including 30 children) in which denial of access to medical treatment has led directly to deaths, including those of babies born while women were held up at checkpoints". (British Medical Journal, 2004, 329:924).
The Wall is part of Israel's ongoing war to fractionate Palestinian communities and isolate them from each other into disconnected ghettos, each will be a prison, while virtually all Palestinian agricultural and water resources land are annexed to Israel. As Israel did in Gaza, the Wes Bank's towns of Hebron and Nablus, and the suburbs around Jerusalem will be transformed into several mini Gaza-like prisons.
After the evacuation of the illegal Jewish settlers from Gaza in 2004, Israel has literally completed the first Palestinian ghetto. The Gaza ghetto is the most isolated and densely populated prison on the planet. Gaza is completely fences-off by electronic and electric fences, and controlled by Israel's occupation forces (IOF) from all sides. The population of 1.5 million Palestinians are lockdown for good part of the year. No Palestinian can leave or come into Gaza unless they have an Israeli-issued Palestinian ID card, which is impossible to obtain. The aim is to completely cut Gaza off from the West Bank and the rest of the world, and the second is to encourage starvation and epidemics among the population.
Israel continues to destroy Palestinian infrastructure and kill innocent Palestinians, with impunity. In the first four months of this year 90 Palestinians, including more than 20 children, were killed by Israeli forces meanwhile 17 Israelis, including one child, were killed by Palestinian armed groups (AI Wire, Vol. 36, No. 5, June 2006). Murdering Palestinian children in cold blood has always been the Israeli soldiers' way of training. In many cases Israeli soldiers were known to provoke children to throw stones and then murdering them. The last two months (May-June) Israel has fired more than 6,000 shells into the Gaza killing more than 30 innocent Palestinians.
According to Dr. Summerfield, the IOF has "killed more Palestinian civilians than the number of people who died on September 11, 2001. In conducting 238 extrajudicial executions the army has also killed 186 bystanders (including 26 women and 39 children). Two thirds of the 621 children (two thirds under 15 years) killed at checkpoints, in the street, on the way to school, in their homes, died from small arms fire, directed in over half of cases to the head, neck and chest – the sniper's wound. Clearly, soldiers are routinely authorised to shoot to kill children in situations of minimal or no threat". As a result of Israel daily terror, most Palestinian children suffer trauma and psychological sickness.
The month of June was the deadliest so far. Using the (football) World Cup event as a cover, on Friday 09 June 2005, Israeli gunboats deliberately and indiscriminately shelled northern Gaza beach and murdered eight Palestinians (the entire Ghalia's family) – including three children while they were picnicking. As usual, the Israeli Government and its crimes complicit, the BBC, tried to cover up the massacre. However, evidence provided by eyewitness on the ground, member of the US-based Human Rights watch (HRW) and hospital records refuted the Israel's propaganda campaign as distortion of facts. "The army's case could be dismissed outright were it not for the racist assumptions that now prevail as Western 'thought' about Arabs and Muslims", wrote author and journalist Jonathan Cook. Two days later Jewish soldiers murdered another nine Palestinians including children in cold blood in northern Gaza.
On 21 June Israeli war planes attacked a group of civilians murdering a pregnant woman, Fatima Ahmed and her brother Zachariah, and seriously injuring seven more people, including another pregnant women and three small children two pf them a 5-years-old boy and his 4-years-old cousins. There were no harmless (Qassam) rockets strikes before the crimes. Murdering Palestinian children in cold blood has become the Israeli soldiers' way of training. Nearly one-quarter of the victims are children aged 16 years and younger. As always, "[s]ome of the children were playing football in the street in full sight of the soldier who pulled the trigger, others were sitting at their desks in school when a stray bullet from an army post crashed into the classroom" reported Chris McGreal of the London Guardian. "About half of those children were shot in the Gaza strip, the bulk in two refugee camps in the south – Rafah and Khan Yunis. The killings were only part of it. Israel bulldozed the homes of thousands of Palestinians along the Egyptian border and around the settlements. It drove out many others with the daily, and more often nightly, barrage of fire into Rafah and Khan Yunis. Nowhere suffered more at the hands of occupation" added McGreal. The "moral" West (led by the U.S.) not only remains silent but also condoning Israel's crimes as "self-defence", not terrorism.
Billions of U.S. taxpayers' money is spent annually to arm Israel and to implement gross abuses of human rights against the Palestinian people. Gaza (and other towns in the West Bank) is often invaded by Israeli tanks backed by troops, helicopter gunships and F-16s aircraft leaving behind trails of civilian massacres and wanton destruction. Again, the crimes depicted in the West and the mass media as "incursion" and Israel depicted as a "civilised" society, not one that addicted to violence and terrorism.
As I am writing these lines, Israeli tanks backed by troops and helicopter gunships are invading and reoccupying Gaza, destroying civilian infrastructures, including bridges and electricity grids, in violations of the Geneva Conventions and international law. Much of Gaza has been left without electricity, making life unbearable and rending the health care system unusable. Israeli actions are war crimes and crimes against humanity, with the Bush Administration blessing. The advertised pretext for this deliberate wanton destruction and collective punishment on defenceless population is to free one Israeli soldier, which is completely fraudulent. The soldier was taken prisoner during a legitimate resistant operation by Palestinian fighters and in retaliation to Israel's ongoing acts of terrorism and crimes against Palestinian children. Hence, the real aim of the "Jewish State" is to topple a democratically elected government and install a subservient one ready to accept Israeli rules.
While the world is focussing on the one Israeli soldier, there are more than 9,400 Palestinian prisoners languishing in Israeli prisons. These include hundreds of women, children and infants as young as 3 months old separated from their mothers and under brutal conditions. Many of the prisoners are imprisoned without charge as "Administrative Detainees". They were kidnapped from their homes at midnight, imprisoned and subjected to torture, sexual abuses and denied their rights to fair trial.
A permanent state of violence has served the "Jewish State" very well, allowing it to avoid any peaceful settlement and to continue its Zionist policy of expansion. As Professor Ur Shlonsky of Geneva University in Switzerland wrote; Israel's aim is to "terrorise the civilian population, assuring maximal destruction of property and cultural resources". At the same time, "the daily life of the Palestinians must be rendered unbearable: They should be locked up in ghettos and refugee camps, prevented from exercising normal economic life, cut off from workplaces, schools and hospitals, This will encourage emigration and weaken the resistance to future expulsions".
After the success of HAMAS movement in the Palestinian Legislative Council, the U.S. and the European Union (EU) imposed economic sanctions, as a collective punishment against the Palestinians for practicing their democratic rights and for electing the "wrong" people. In order to increase the suffering of Palestinians, on 23 May 2006, the U.S. House of Representatives voted to approve by 361-37 to impose sanction against the Palestinian people and starve their children. Encouraged by Western powers, Israel followed with its own brutality by illegally withholding millions of dollars ($55 million per month) in tax revenues from the Palestinians. As a result, more than 170,000 government employees have not been paid their salaries for three months affecting the lives of more than a million Palestinians.
Furthermore, unemployment and poverty among Palestinians are as high as 60 % in Gaza and 50 % in the West Bank (Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs [OCHA]). This deliberate economic siege "is like an appointment with a dietician. The Palestinians will get a lot thinner, but they won't starve to death", said Dov Weissglas, the Israeli Government's senior political advisor. The same crimes were known to have been perpetuated by the Nazis on defenceless population. By refusing to return Palestinian tax revenues and deliberately imposing harsh living conditions, Israel is forcing the Palestinians to pay for their own (and their children) malnutrition and starvation.
Yet, despite nearly sixty years of Zionism, including forty-years of brutal military occupation and barbarism enforced by the "Jewish State" – the world's fourth largest army – and its Western allies, the Palestinian ghettos and refugee camps continue to be vibrant grounds for Palestinian resistance and civil societies. Zionism and Israeli oppression have failed to break the desire and national struggle of the Palestinians for freedom and self-determination. Palestinians have built and organised various institutions and organizations not only to resist the Israeli Occupation but also to care for their society. In addition to the armed struggle, Palestinian institutions and organizations are providing daily health care services, education and aid to the Palestinian population.
Israel's terror is dependent on the supports provided by Western governments, and U.S. taxpayers' money. Like Fascist Germany and Apartheid South Africa, Israel can be forced – even under moderate economic sanctions – to change its brutal policies and seek a peaceful resolution. An independent Palestine and the rights of return for all Palestinian refugees to their land is the only just and peaceful resolution.
Just as the civilised world stood together against Fascism and Apartheid, so it today must join to condemn Israel and call on it to stop committing crimes against the Palestinian people.
Ghali Hassan lives in Perth, Western Australia.
July 4, 2006
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"Books for children can be sad, even tragic, but they must offer hope."-Malka Drucker
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Dr. Gilat I wrote you about the same time last year after my class read Jacob's Rescue. I just wanted to share with you that another generation of 12 year olds have been exposed to your story and were equally enthralled, fascinated and touched. I hope time has been gentle to you, Jacob, Alex and Mariska since the last time I wrote.......
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Dear Ms. Rosenblat, It is encouraging to know that you keep using Jacob's Rescue as part of the reading material in your classes. I also received a very warm, nicely written letter from one of your students to whom I shall write separately You may be interested in... MELA, a play for a single actress, recently composed by Michael Halperin (co-author, with Malka Drucker, of Jacob's Rescue) as a tribute to Amelia (Mela) Roslan who shared the burden of giving shelter to Jacob and me with her husband Alex(ander). Perhaps this is a good opportunity to introduce your students to a play as a literary form other than a novel. Mela died in 1996 at the age of 87. Alex, on the other hand, after over 55 years in the United States, at the advanced age of 95, has recently moved to Poland. I visited him last month in his native country-side village near the city of Bialystok, where he stays in the home of his niece who is taking excellent care of him. Best wishes, David Gilat
David, Thanks so much for copying me this letter. Hard to believe that Alex is in Poland! He remains his independent energetic, and unpredictable self. Please drishat shalom to Jacob and his family. It was wonderful seeing you last winter. B'ahavah, Malka Drucker
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