Dahab bombing

For the benefit of anyone else I might have sent an email to "from Eilat", and was worrying about me and the Dahab bomb, I'm back in the UK, and okay: I wrote my postcard emails in Eilat, but only sent them here. I was actually in more danger from the Tel Aviv bus station bomb the other week—I was in a bus approaching Tel Aviv at the time.

And before anyone I haven't mentioned this to starts fretting: People are scared to come to the country, because of how it's portrayed on the news: full of Islamic fundamentalists glorifying terrorism and killing people with suicide bombs. Only it's not British people's attitude towards Israel I'm talking about here; what I'm describing seems now to be the average Israeli's attitude towards the UK.

Just goes to show how much our attitudes are influenced by the media, doesn't it?

The failure of the post-Camp David talks and the Six Day War

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