PalesTINDER Shows Love Has No Borders

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“Dating is hard, but it’s even harder if you’re trying to meet someone in the capital of a war-torn region like Palestine, according to excerpts from a new blog called PalesTINDER.

The Tumblr page posts singles’ conversations from the dating apps Tinder and Grindr, revealing that there really is no escaping the area’s political tensions amid attacks in Israel and the Gaza Strip — even if you’re just trying to spark a conversation.

“It started as my roommate and I were sitting on the couch like, ‘Let’s see what’s happening on Tinder,'” Caitlin Kent, 26, told ABC News today from Ramallah, Palestine, where the San Francisco native works at a summer camp.” *

Cenk Uygur (http://www.twitter.com/cenkuygur) and Ana Kasparian (http://www.twitter.com/AnaKasparian) discuss.

*Read more here from http://abcnews.go.com/International/online-dating-meets-middle-east/story?id=24665725

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