User talk:188.225.146.168

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Thanks a lot for updating some information in articles about places in Palestine! I'm sorry that it was necessary to revert information about a tour agency, at least on a preliminary basis. This site has a highly restrictive policy on listing tours. Have a look at it, and if you feel there's room to argue for a listing, you can make a proposal at Talk:Palestinian territories.

On the delicate matter of listing a place to stay in an Israeli settlement, since it's right near Jericho, which article would it be more reasonable to list it than the Jericho article? Please understand, while many of us have strong opinions about the Israeli occupation and Israeli settlements, this is a travel guide and does not itself take positions on politics or international law, so if there's a place to stay in an Israeli settlement and the quality of the hotel (or whatever) is good enough for it to be worth listing, we for better and/or worse disregard any moral questions about whether travelers should in good conscience stay there or not, leaving it to their own judgment. I don't feel happy to state this policy to you, as I can well imagine that you would be personally adversely affected by the Israeli occupation and settlements, and I personally sympathize with you on this. But if you think about it, this site's position on questions of politics and international law could hardly be otherwise, since, to take a few examples, there is currently an "ethnic cleansing" campaign of huge proportions taking place in Myanmar, much of the world is ruled by more or less brutal dictatorships, and several "Western" countries are currently ruled by illiberal, xenophobic parties. If we took the position that travelers shouldn't visit any of these places and deleted our articles for them, we wouldn't have much left. Also, see similar examples of controversial de facto control over land in Crimea, Kosovo and Kashmir, and how they are treated on this site. The overall policy on dealing with politically controversial questions of control over land is laid out at Be fair. If you have any objections to the policy laid out on that page, you are most welcome to start a thread at Wikivoyage talk:Be fair and explain what you would propose to change.

All the best,

Ikan Kekek (talk) 06:39, 26 October 2017 (UTC)