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My name is Doug Parker on this week's show, a review of Disney Wonder, out of, out from the

West Coast, actually, and staff writer Richard Sims is on deck with cruise news. Hey, Richard.

Hey, Doug Parker. So several cruise lines have canceled scheduled calls into Israel.

This isn't terribly surprising, given the war that's broken out in that region,

whenever there's violence taking place, anywhere near a port,

especially if it has to do with, well, like I said, violence, but also political uprisings,

we've seen that kind of thing as well.

The cruise lines very quickly tend to err on the side of caution by canceling any journeys that were scheduled to go into that area or into that port. At this point, pretty much every line has stopped their calls on Israel, with several also canceling stops in Egypt, which is sort of close enough that it's

caught up in this. When they'll return depends on a lot of factors, but the biggest, of course,

is how long the violence continues. And it seems sort of safe to say at this point that that

could go on for a while. Now, some lines have already canceled all the way into November, kind of reading the tea leaves, as it were, and seeing this. Holland,

America actually had a ship in one of Israel's ports when the conflicts broke out, and they

had people on shore who had disembarked for

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