I don't understand the issue. I understand enough to understand I don't understand. Understand? :)

Been hanging out with an Israeli & 3 Palestines guys. Just not together. They're 4 nice, educated guys & yet all have made snide comments about the other.

It's been especially interesting with the Israeli. I watch the locals, 60% of whom are Palestinian, ask where he's from & then say "welcome" with a painfully forced smile.

One day helped him smuggle his Jordanian girlfriend into his room. Apart from him being a Jew & her a Muslim, local girls are not allowed in a hotel with a foreigner. Had her father found out her "honor" was in question, he would have the legal right to & would have KILLED HER. Seriously. Wow.

And the Palestine guys... hilarious, handsome & soooo sweet. They took me anywhere I wanted & never let me pay for a thing. They just returned to their home in Ramallah & begged & begged me to come with. All expenses paid! But had I gone, it'd be impossible to get into counties like Syria & Yemen. Other countries carefully look through your passport for an Israeli stamp & even if Israel doesn't stamp your passport, the Jordan stamp when I came back would show where I entered, making it obvious I came from Israel. I'd love to go to Israel. And Palestine. But no way 'till I'm done with the Middle East & Africa.

The whole situation really sucks! For them. And me. Why can't we all just get along!?!