About 15 years ago I was backpacking across South America and every so often we would come into contact with young Israelis'. Now when we arrived we noticed heaps of stand alone accommodation for Israelis' or floors of hostels that were Israeli only. Finding this to be a bit odd I asked about it, and was told, "Oh its what they do after they leave the Army, a lot of Israelis' either do to south America or Asia and have like a gap year." I was like, "oh, ok but why the separate accommodation?", the reply was "It just works better that way."
During that holiday, I had probably about 10 interactions with people I assumed were Israeli, all ranged from negative to repellant. And honestly with no reason, I put it down to a couple of things, one being the experience and indoctrination that comes from being in the army and other, that they probably thought i was a Muslim. I had a shaved head and a long bread at the time. But the takeaway for me was that i had never met a group of people more universally vile.
