I'm sure you have all heard by now as it's almost impossible to escape, but fighting between Israel and the Hamas erupted earlier this week after a six month cease fire expired. The missiles fired by Israel are aimed at the Gaza Strip, a narrow area of land sandwiched between Israel and Egypt. As a result a large sect of the Egyptian population is rising up in protest calling for Egyptian aid to the Palestinians, their Arab and Muslim brothers, both financially, and unfortunately, militarily. Since the U.S. is one of Israels biggest backers, this obviously means the the U.S. government, and in turn it's citizens, face potential danger when visiting these areas.
Although we are incredibly bummed that we can no longer see the great Pyramids of Giza, the place we were both looking forward to seeing the most, we are still very excited for our travels; we simply have to re-tool our route a bit. Trevor is fluent in Spanish and has been wanting to see Madrid for years now, so perhaps we will head south before heading east. On the positive side, this means that we get to spend a longer time in each of the other places we choose to visit. Plus, now we'll just have to go back...
Political insight provided by Trev, the Political Science & International Law student.
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