[Times-UK] Julie Burchill - In seven nights, my friend Nadia and I stayed in Jerusalem, the Dead Sea, Eilat and Tel Aviv. And though we came back determined to return ASAP, and well aware that there was so much more to see, in no way did we feel exhausted or short-changed. There are lots of lies told about Israel - some of them deliberate, others are mere misunderstandings. "It's far away" - no, it's four hours by plane. "It's dangerous" - I've felt more physically threatened on Brighton sea front on a school night. If you want to believe them, go ahead, ignore Israel, and keep trotting back to the same old destinations you've visited a score of times. But you'll be missing out on supporting, in some small way, a dazzling, good-hearted country surrounded by barren theocracies who'd rather it had never existed.
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