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My son was over in Israel doing some filming for work in April and stopped for a while with a couple who live there. They explained how life has been over the years and, even then they could hear explosions in Syria. I don't think most of us here could possibly understand how the people who live in that part of the Middle East go about their daily lives let alone their politics but I think I'd take a lot of the newspapers reports with a large pinch of salt. The press can be very one sided.