ISRAEL 16 th – 30 th March ACROSS THE ALLENBY BRIDGE It was 5 degrees and raining heavily as the JETT bus for the King Hussein-Allenby Bridge rolled out of Abdali at 9am. With political tensions already high over the Al Baqura incident and escalating daily as the East Jerusalem housing development impasse reached critical mass – the first sod was due to be turned tomorrow – we expected the West Bank crossing to be on full alert and bristling with even more intense security than usual. Even Ted could count on an internal search. Formalities, which included not having our passports endorsed to show we’d exited Jordan for Israel, were completed smoothly at Jordanian customs control and we boarded the shuttle bus for the short drive along a fenced military road to the bridge itself. The driver stopped at the Jordanian checkpoint and awaited orders to proceed. Two soldiers conducted final passport checks. The rain eased. We waited. With a larger-than-life...
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