Ah, if only I had done it like THIS

My Trip to the West Bank by Bernard Chazelle

http://www.cs.princeton.edu/~chazelle/politics/wb08-travel.html
I recommend my friends log onto this website as a useful version of the tourist's visit to the West Bank in the first part of 2008. Like this writer, whose descriptions are packed with useful information as well as various observations, I had a sense of the inevitability of more and worse conflict between Israelis and Palestinians in the not so distant future.
There appeared to me to be no prospect of a genuine and lasting peace unless people are willing to give, and not insist only that others give first. The humiliation the writer describes was also reflected in my observations of interactions between Israeli soldiers and Palestinians who were subjected to regular scrutiny just trying to move from point A to point B in their own home town.
The new settlements in the West Bank are extremely disturbing evidence of the legitimacy accorded to some people's absolute disrespect for others.