I hope it wouldn't be a threadjack to add a few of my own pictures. I feel a little silly that it never occurred to me to share some of my Middle East experiences from last year here on TFP.
This is the entrance that was open between Jerusalem and Ramallah.
Here is the spot where you leave Israel proper and enter the West Bank. There's barely any security, just a single full-body turnstile. I took this covertly while standing in line to re-enter Israel... I didn't dare take a picture of that (I was always harassed by security enough as it was), but it was a rather long line and involved thorough searches and some questioning, especially for non-internationals (i.e. Palestinians). As an American you were normally okay, although in my case it didn't erase my dark skin and Arabic-derived name.
Sorry that this one's sideways. This is a slum near Bethlehem.
To address the issue of linkages between occupation practice and terrorism, I think one must remember that Palestinians are being presented by the dominant right-wing apparatus with the destruction of Israel as the only solution to their miserable circumstances. I think it would be asinine to believe that changes on the ground will not result in changes in Palestinian attitudes, whatever the professed goals of Hamas are. Their attitudes during the budget crisis (namely, explicitly endorsing negotiations based on the '67 borders) show that 'pushing the Jews into the sea' is not their first and only policy imperative but rather a far-right slogan, as empty as many other far-right slogans tend to be.
There has been no real willingness to discuss the dismantling of the system of Israeli control that exists in the Territories, and the withdrawal from Gaza, which granted no real sovereignty and left Israel with the ability to open and close the borders at will, is merely a case in point.