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re: "And I would tell her that."
I'm curious how you'd have backed that up.
Israel gets about 3.5 million visitors each year. How many of them do you think get murdered?
My hunch is that your friend's friend's baby is probably in far greater danger of catching some exotic influenza or cold in Israel and dying from THAT than of being murdered, blown-up, forced into involuntary servitude or whatever else it is that you're worried about. But such diseases can be caught at home these days, too, so Irael is effectively a non-issue.
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