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Adam pointed out the Berlin style wall Israel was building to separate the Palestinians. He was convinced that we would have been fine had we been allowed to proceed through Tulkarm; I was happy to have given entry into the West Bank a chance and happier to be heading back the way we came.

Two sticking points in the peace negotiations include Israeli expansion into the West Bank and releasing the 7,500 Palestinians sitting in Israeli prisons. We drove by some of the Israeli settlements in contention and several prisons on the way to Jerusalem.