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Originally Posted by djv8ga
What do you mean by "playing with fire?' Are you saying they will be attacked?
I'm curious, why did you go there?
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My son works there as a construction manager in support of the State Department's Foreign Military Sales program. We traveled all over Israel with him and went into Jordan to visit Petra and Wadi Rum (both are fantastic, BTW). My wife and I took a Palestinian public bus from Jerusalem's Damascus Gate area to Bethlehem in order to visit the Church of the Nativity. This involved crossing the border wall and going through the checkpoints in the West Bank. I also went there on vacation in ~1983 while I was living in Germany.
With respect to the "playing with fire" comment, Israel's continuing to support further settlements (and looking the other way on the expansion of illegal settlements) is bound to spark outrage among the Palestinians as the Israelis continue to try to annex as much land as possible on the West Bank.