Yosef Meller wrote:
Seeing that link, it's obvious now why he fears that in Israel foreign citizens get arested for no cause - the border police have in their bag several cases of detaining visitors just for being leftists (um... I mean... troublemakers. Of course. You misheard me the first time... please don't arrest me too). Fortunately he does not look like a blond woman with a Ukrainian accent - that is a sure deportation.The "territories" are for the adventurous one, that's true. They have been a part-time military zone for years and, not surprisingly, the border police is quite trigger-happy. It's the same kind of adventure as you can get by visiting Iraq. However, a foreigner visiting Israeli cities isn't expected any trouble. It's not like anyone would be detained in the airport or on the street for his political opinions or associations. We have a regular country, open for tourists - no iron curtains, who doesn't have a clue what kind of people it lets in. Heck, an application for a US Visa requires you to state more details about your opinions.
This discussion is bound to get wildly off-topic, so let's just sum up that there's no reason[*] why a foreign guest whom our LUGs would be interested to see couldn't visit Israel.
[*] Except if he's from a country barred entrance to Israel. I don't know what those countries are, but I guess there must be some.
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