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RE: "The Israeli model: What airport safety looks like, and what it
costs travelers
Models of security. Security measures at Israel's main
airport, one of the world's safest, are vastly different from those
in Brussels. But there is a tradeoff."
http://www.csmonitor.com/World/Middle-East/2016/0325/The-Israeli-model-What-airport-safety-looks-like-and-what-it-costs-travelers
Dear Editor,
Is it really fair- or logical- to feature "The Israeli Model" of
airport security and assert that "For prospective air travelers,
this is what one of the world’s safest airports looks like."
The vast majority of international airports worldwide have not had a
major incident, although all have had to deal with various crazy
people and criminals. Why feature Israel?
Israel does not set a good example, and should not be lauded as a
role model for safety and security. Israeli profiling is pervasive-
and cruel, and has been for decades with horrible ramifications for
countless persecuted Palestinian men, women and children (both
Christian and Muslim) who are being profiled, oppressed,
impoverished, pushed into forced exile, and refused their
inalienable right to return to ancestral homes and lands.
Hamas and Hezbollah have risen up in response to the very real
plight and suffering of the native non-Jewish population of the Holy
Land, and alongside Israel's own state subsidized Jewish religious
extremists, have been inflicting huge harm on the Palestinian quest
for statehood and an end to the Israel-Palestine conflict.
And by the way, the quote by an Arab from East Jerusalem, claiming
he does not see any discrimination "The security checks can take a
long time, but the security is good"... That man is experienced
enough to know that if he's been quoted in international
publications, or on his Facebook page, pointing out the full and
total truth about Israeli discrimination, Israeli authorities are
more than likely to refuse to allow him to travel back to return to
his home and family in East Jerusalem.
Sincerely,
Anne Selden Annab
