Originally Posted by ruderalis88

oh fine, last one and i'm going to bed.

no i've never been to Israel, i would like to (because i want to see the whole world) but if you get an israeli stamp on your passport you'e pretty much never able to enter any arab state after that. even when you get a new passport they still know you were there. as a westerner, i'd prefer not to seem disrespectful to the arab communities who have hosted so kindly myself and members of my family in the past. I have looked at, seen with my own eyes, the disputed area from across the Syrian, Egyptian, and Lebanese borders. I have heard, first hand, the painful stories of death and segregation from real live palestinian people. My heart bleeds for them. These are my reasons for believing it all exists and is a genuine cause.

I donate what i can to the Palestinian cause on a regular basis, and am rarely not wearing some sort of identification with the cause, either one of two "free palestine" bracelets which i own or an earring in the shape of palestine 1947 with their flag on it. Apart from when i am at work where i'm not allowed to wear any jewelley or non-uniform items. If i lose my job, i won't be able to donate, so i say temporarily not identifying with what is (in my surroundings) a fairly risquee cause is the lesser of two evils.