Ugh I want to go to Israel. Why Why Why?

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ImpaKt

"aaaaaaah, Don't waste your cash & life on some thing that is based on LIES and hypocrisy.

I was like you once, but since i started paying attention and notice the jew/zion behavior and savageness, not only i dislike them, i would NOT believe a ''single'' word that comes out of their mouth for, they've proved it over & over..........that, they never fall short on lying! They do any thing to shed Palestinian's blood.

ADD;.....LOL, seems like, we've gotten another pro cut&past 'zion gal', added to the current ones. Could you locate the one?!!..(10 pts.lol)"

ADD2.........As Im answering for the 2nd time,
even on holidays ''these filthy gutless cowards'' are busy reporting the ones revealing the truth! LOL

PaperbackWriter JPA

Speaking as someone who used to live in Israel, let me tell you: if you're waiting for a 'quiet time' to go, there will NOT be one!

It all comes down to how badly you want to go, really. My family in Israel tell me that while southern Israel is being badly affected - that's where the Hamas missiles are aimed - the rest of the country does not feel in much danger. Let me reword that: they don't feel in any more danger than usual...!

Here4Travel Q & A

I'm Christian and went there several times this year... how is it wrong? There is lots of good hospitality from Jews and Arabs to be had in the region.

You get to go see where Jesus hung out... you can literally take a tunnel tour and walk on the original street level.

Perhaps consider not going to Bethlehem as the Christians there have been all but run out.. 5000 have left (and the Jews have no access to it so... who's fault do you think it is?)

kadel

I think you need to know more about what is going on there and who is to blame. Here is an excerpt from a former US Ambassador

The Gaza Strip is truly a forbidding place for the uninitiated.

I first visited Gaza City in 1971 when I was a young staffer on the U.S. Senate Judiciary Subcommittee on Refugees undertaking one of Congress' first assessments of the plight of Palestinian refugees, and then several times in the past few decades.

It does not take a sophisticated observer to understand the repressive squalor that qualifies as subsistence living inside Gaza. Hundreds of thousands of Palestinians are crammed into a sandbox slum no bigger than the District of Columbia, cut off from their brethren in the West Bank -- yes, suffering under a Hamas rule that by any standard has actually made Gaza as close to a hell on earth as one can imagine. Instead of preserving the last vestiges of operable civilian infrastructure that the Israelis had left behind following their withdrawal a few years ago, Hamas methodically bulldozed the "Zionist contaminants" (translated from Hamas' own Arabic website). So much for giving its own people a better life even if it meant benefiting from Israeli "leftovers."

My last visit a few years ago was the most revealing (before Hamas seized Gaza). I was on a fact-finding mission and requested to meet with one of Hamas' leaders, who were surprisingly open to the request. Always important to hear extremists in their own tongue. I was put into the trunk of a car once across the Nesher Israeli crossing, and taken on a bone-breaking ride through Gaza's potholed streets to a back alley. The car stopped, the trunk popped open, and I soon found myself face to face with one of Hamas' leaders (name withheld).

For over two hours, I was subjected to the expected Hamas rantings about Israel's illegitimacy and Hamas' determination to transform Palestine into a fundamentalist Islamic state where only those Jews who had lived in pre-British Mandate Palestine would be "accepted."

And what would become of all of the other millions of Jews who had come to settle in Israel since then I asked? Hamas conveniently would force them out of Israel, and what became of them was of no consequence to Hamas. It was the UN's problem, the Americans' problem, the Germans' problem, but no longer the Palestinians' problem. Driving them into the sea would have been too impolitic for the Hamas spokesman to utter, but the intent was just the same.

Therefore, in order order to understand what this struggle is all about, one must understand Hamas' goals, largely derived from its ideological paternity to the Egyptian Muslim Brothehood. As a Sunni extremist offshoot of the Brotherhood, Hamas' raison d'etre is Israel's destruction -- nothing less will do.

Hamas' leaders, both in Gaza and in Damascus, have every intent to transform Hamas' control of Gaza into "Hezbollah South." Hamas, with Iran's backing, is slowly preparing Gaza to serve as a staging ground for an eventual all-out assault on Israel, joined at the hip with its Shiite extremist terrorist brethren of the Hezbollah who are also busily rearming themselves in Lebanon and itching for the next round of war with Israel -- hopefully with a nuclear-armed Iran to egg them on.

Since Hamas illegitimately seized control of Gaza from the Palestinian Authority in its own fratricidal terror campaign, Hamas has imposed a Taliban-style subsistence on the Gaza Strip, made all the harsher by Hamas' stubborn refusal to soften its hatred of Israel so as to permit more aid to enter Gaza.

The rockets being fired arbitrarily, and may I intentionally add, without Israeli provocation, after the expiration on December 18 of the latest intermittent "Tahdiyeh" or self-declared Hamas "lull" is designed to turn southern Israel into a virtual no-man's land. Hamas wants to begin "liberating" Palestine from its side of the border.

When Hamas' leaders decided to resume their indiscriminate rocket fire into Israel, they did so knowing full well that Israel would be forced to react no matter what the inevitable civilian suffering. Having smuggled into Gaza longer-range Grad missiles from Iran through the 800 some odd tunnels that Hamas has dug under the Egyptian-Gaza border, Hamas is betting on the hope that the Israel's countermeasures would drive more and more Palestinians into the lap of Hamas, both in Gaza and the West Bank. There is a real danger that this could occur.

Despite my instinctive belief that one should try to negotiate a way out of this dilemma no matter the odds, I have concluded that the only way out of this mess is to separate Hamas' entire military and political leadership from the oppressed citizenry of Gaza (and yes, it is absolutely a mischaracterization of fact to assert that Hamas is the legitimate ruler of Gaza). Easier said than done you say. But as long as Hamas rules Gaza, no amount of cajoling is going to end the vicious cycle of ter

If you're studying in college then you are still young and you will have plenty of time to visit Israel. This may not be the best time to visit because so much of the country's south is under missile and mortar attack from Hamas. It is not clear why you would consider it wrong to visit. The city of Sderot and neighboring towns have been undergoing missile attacks and shelling, some 6000 in fact, since Hamas came to power in Gaza. If anything, Israel's response is long overdue. My advice to you would be to wait until the current situation is resolved and then plan a visit. You won't be disappointed.

Arieh

As long as you stay away from the Israeli government, you should be o.k.

Lola L

I just came back. I toured most of the country for my bat mitzvah. There are many lovely places there. I visited Eilat, Tel Aviv, Golan Heights, Jerusalem, the Sea of Galilee, and many other places. It was great and nothing was wrong. Visit!

Cherry_Red

I lived there for the past two years and just recently returned to the states (about 6 months ago). It a really beautiful and unique place all-around. Its actually in pretty bad shape right now from what I've heard though, probably the worst it has been in a while. I know from experience though that it always sounds worse on the news than what it actually is for people there. Perhaps I'd suggest that you wait a bit but I'd definitely recommend you going. There are so many special things to see there.

jmnmic27

i was in israel for the past 2 months
i wouldn't say it's completely safe, but as long as you stay in parts like jerusalem and tel aviv, you're safe enough
the only really dangerous parts are the ones near the Gaza strip (like Acco, and askelon)

Your Friendly Jewish Accountant

Like it's WRONG to visit there? If you said "dangerous" I would've understood your question, but here you're not making much sense.

My boyfriend just got back from Israel yesterday. Read the papers and pay attention to where they attack and you'll see it's about 2% of the country.

You have a better chance of being shot in the street of your hometown than getting hurt in Israel, look at the facts.

www.haaretz.com - the Israeli newspaper

THE TRUTH IS HOLY

Now would be the time to book your trip. If you actually are a Christian in more than just name, then you can show your belief in G-D by going and spending time. money and energy in His Land. In the end, you will be saving yourself. Israel will surely survive without you - you may not spiritually survive without supporting her. Choose your path carefully. The soul you save may be your own.

I am turned off by what is happening too. It's war and it's hell. Still Israel is safe enough now.
If you are in Theology you have a lot to learn yet.
That's obvious.
Unlike Jelly I know my bible. We may be seeing the beginning of Psalm 83 but WW3 is a least 7 -10 years away yet.
Either shortly before or after Isaiah 17 Christians won't be here anymore. The new ones will have to live without grace . They may see the last war but not Christians alive today.
I wish people that don't know the whole chapter would stop living on verses.

igoogledisrael

I'm a Christian and have been living in Israel for the past 18 years. I'm married to a local girl, in case you were wondering why...Admittedly, now isn't perhaps the best time to visit, but the sites you'd likely visit are far from the danger areas.

I'm not religious at all, but spent Christmas Eve in the Old City of Jerusalem. It was amazing. I got to see all the sites you only get to read about or watch via documentaries. There it was, the Church of the Holy Sepulchre, and then the Wailing Wall, and then the Muslim Quarter...and so on.

I understand your feelings right now, but really, how could you NOT come to the Holy Land?

mom says i am a good guy

I WANT U TO GO :p

Smart One

I HATE THE NEW ISRAEL STATE. THEY ARE EVIL

Ralph

Dont go to israel.

Pink Lady

Don't GO! You may witness the Palestinians' children being blown up and their body parts scattered throughout the streets. This is a favorite past time of the Israelis. Sick and supported. Yet, the other side claims... "Oh, but Hamas is attacking us with their rockets..." Where are Israel's casualties? Where are their dead children? Do you believe in Judgment Day?

alan m

Dont go. Hamas is still firing rockets at any living thing. Its terible. Everyday they bomb bomb bomb. Anyone. Not even tatrgets. Anyone. Even kindergardens. Why? No one knows. When asked they say " We do not know . We only follow orders" !

LOLITa (asmaa s back)

go ,go!!!,it s really your choice if you want to cut your life short.

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