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Message Board  Women:From Bristol to Bethlehem 05/20/02 at
15:42:42 Women:From Bristol to Bethlehem  Three British women
were deported from Israel last week after marching across Manger
Square to take food to the people trapped inside the Church of
the Nativity. Nic Fleming meets them  Thursday May 16, 2002
[url=,2763,716168,00.html]The Guardian[/url]  Two weeks ago
today, 16 men and seven women pulled off one of the most
audacious nonviolent direct-action stunts of recent times. Under
the noses of dozens of armed Israeli soldiers, they broke
through to the Church of the Nativity in Bethlehem to leave
behind a 10-strong human shield and food for almost 200
civilians, monks and Palestinian militants trapped inside.
Twelve days later, with several of their comrades still in
Israeli custody, three of the siege breakers are squashed
together on a floral-patterned sofa in a messy Bristol loun