One of the sites we visited was Shepherds Field just a few miles from Bethlehem near the village of Beit Sahour, a very sacred place to Christians, this the place were the Angel of the Lord told the shepherds of the birth of Jesus. It is a very interesting place with caves and chapel in addition we saw a shepherd tending his flock at the base of the hill. What got my attention was the Israeli settlement encroaching on this holy site and the land stolen from the Palestinian people. These are not settlements they are luxury condominiums which belies all of the stories in our media. Just to the right of the condominiums is an "Israeli only" road that is used to bisect Palestinian land cutting off the owners from their property. Once the land is unattended for 3 years the Israelis use "Ottoman law" to steal the land and turn it over to more settlers.