Visiting Israel: The Side The Media ‘Forgot’ To Show You

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Close your eyes for a second and I want you to think of as many images of Israel as you can.

Now open them, and tell me what you saw.

Anything like this?

How about this?

Maybe something like this?

And surely, a little bit of this?

Oh — no? See, that’s the problem with the media — the overly sensationalized narrow views of the media.…

I finally return to America only to be told I look like…

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I can’t help but secretly laugh at the irony of this situation and being told something I would only expect to hear in less progressive cities outside of the western world.

I was three days into being back on American soil (after being abroad for two years straight), trying hard to assimilate back into our consumeristic society.…

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