For curiosity sake, lately I have thought it would be interesting to visit Israel. To get the double whammy of seeing where Jesus lived and all the Biblical history...with all the modern history of war and peace thrown in as well. Michael Totten was recently there and has been posting some dispatches of what he experienced...
Tel Aviv is cool. Tel Aviv is fun. Jerusalem isn’t fun. There is too much Reality in Jerusalem for it to be fun.
The city is ground zero in the Israeli-Palestinian conflict. There were far more suicide-bombings there during the intifada than in Tel Aviv. This is partly due to Jerusalem’s proximity to the West Bank. It’s just an easier target. But it’s also more contested than Tel Aviv. Liberal and moderate Palestinians who don’t wish to destroy Israel still want East Jerusalem as the capital of their future sovereign Palestinian state.
Hmmm...maybe I'll think again about that. Read his whole entry with all the pictures to go with it.
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