Reporter offers Bush a Gaza, West Bank 'misery tour'. You should read this.

http://www.cnn.com/2008/WORLD/meast/01/09/btsc.wedeman.bush/index.html

<snip>JERUSALEM (CNN) -- Air Force One touched down in Tel Aviv on Wednesday. President Bush has come to the Holy Land for the first time as president of the United States.

But he's trapped inside his security bubble, his every step mapped out in great and precise detail by teams of security experts and handlers. In the end he'll see a side of this unhappy land that bears as much resemblance to reality as Hollywood does to real life.

Gaza today is a wasteland. Since Hamas took power, the Israeli government has made it extremely difficult for Gazans to travel outside their crowded strip of land along the Mediterranean. Israel has also severely restricted imports in Gaza to essential humanitarian goods. Four out of every five Palestinians depend on international food aid, according to the U.N. Relief and Works Agency. No one is starving, but the economy has come to a virtual standstill.

President Bush won't see the hospital wards where babies, just weeks old, are dying because their doctors can't get permission from Israeli authorities to go to Israel for treatment as they did in the past.

the checkpoints are just a small inconvenience for the Palestinians, but oh so needed for security of the people.

Security ranks above life I guess.

I'd love for any US politician to take the misery tour of Palestine. Just one.

of liberal American jews' commitment to truth and justice, while their more conservative AIPAC/PNAC/ADL leadership basks in their racist and bogus rhetoric.