Burlington has sister cities all over the world — including in Nicaragua, Mississippi and Japan. Winning question-asker Peg Clement is curious about the city's relationship with two, in particular: Bethlehem, in the West Bank, and Arad, in Israel.

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The Burlington-Bethlehem-Arad sister city committee holds public meetings on the first Monday of every month in Burlington’s Miller Center. You can find more information here.

Additional resources:

• NPR: Special Series: Middle East crisis – explained
• Al Jazeera: What’s the Israel-Palestine conflict about? A simple guide
• Vox: What are Israel and Palestine? Why are they fighting?
• The Washington Post: The Israeli-Palestinian conflict: A chronology
• Throughline: A History of Hamas
• Throughline: Palestine (from May 2021)
• The Ezra Klein Show: The Sermons I Needed to Hear Right Now

This episode was reported and produced by Sabine Poux, Burgess Brown and Josh Crane. Angela Evancie is our executive producer. Ty Gibbons composed our theme music; other music by Blue Dot Sessions.

Special thanks to Sophie Stephens, Sandy Baird, Prudence Doherty, Chris Burns, Rob Bliss, Emery Mattheis, Jonah Spivak, Jim Rader, and the CCTV Center for Media & Democracy.

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