Living where you do not make the rules, by Robert H Wade
English edition blogs, 1 February
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Recently I spent some days in the West Bank, which together with Gaza and part of Jerusalem forms the Occupied Palestinian Territories, occupied by Israel since the war of 1967. I had never before been to any of the territory known as the Levant, between Anatolia and Egypt. What follows is a reflection on my experience, as a perfect outsider.