Not only are people so friendly in that city, but the country (from what I heard and was told) is so overwhelmingly pro-Palestinian. There is a climate of pro-Palestinian sympathy sweeping Europe if not the world. The years of the Zionist usurping entity are numbered--for sure. (Egyptian literary critic/Arabic professor, Sabri Hafiz, told me that he refers to Israel always as "the state of Zionist [colonial] settlement in Palestine".)