Border Control with Escort Through Israel

In the Middle East we were responsible for moving people from Canada through to, we went through Italy the first time and onto El Arish in Egypt. I ended up in Beirut, which we covered people going back and forth and that was an interesting experience because between Beirut and Egypt lays Israel but according to Beirut and Egypt, their borders touch, Israel isn't there. It's just like if you wiped it off the map, it’s not there, they wouldn't acknowledge them. So travelling, going say from, driving through on a convoy for example through to from El Arish or Rafah to Beirut, which we used to do to get supplies coming in, Israeli police used to escort us directly through Israel non stop, two or three motorcycles in front and a couple side cars beside us and the rest behind us, and we couldn't stop, right straight through. About maybe half a mile from the Lebanese border they were finished and we we would be on our own from there til the border and they’d let us into Lebanon. They didn't acknowledge that we'd come through Israel, we'd come directly from Egypt.