Travel Advisories

BBC’s Tim Franks raises an interesting point about Tony Blair’s efforts to plug tourism in Bethlehem:

It seemed churlish to point out to Mr Blair that he travelled with the sort of gun-laden, earpiece-wearing retinue unavailable to most tourists.

But I did ask him how his assertions sat with the travel advice from the British and American governments – which is, in essence: do not go to the Occupied Territories unless you really have to.

Mr Blair was plain: “I think it is time to reconsider the (travel) advice,” he told me.

What would it take for Blair to spend a night in Sderot?