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Originally Posted by finnbow
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.
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Ah...got it. I hear it's an interesting place to see, but I have zero desire to spend time anywhere in the Middle East.