Originally Posted by
DLinYUL
Spiffy I'm afraid you wouldn't last very long in Israel (but at least you realize that)...
I don't think a person can comment on security in Israel if they've never actually experienced it. From the moment you hit the airport perimeter and a security guard backed up by men with M-16 starts asking where everyone is going, you learn that they are not kidding around and will not hesitate to drag your ... off someplace. And forget "I'm an American, you can't do this to me!!!!"
At least I have the choice to never visit. It doesn't seem like a very warm welcome or nice place unlike its neighbors. Lebanon, Syria and Jordan were all wonderful and had none of the suspicion.
They would not like all my stamps (UAE resident, Yemen, Oman, Qatar, Kuwait, Bahrain, Iran, Syria, Jordan, Tunisia, Malaysia)... plus possibly Afghanistan and Pakistan too.