Comments on: Guilty of Flying While Arab

By: mary

mary — Mon, 11 Jan 2010 21:33:26 +0000

The paranoia has become a disease. Israel is so consumed by fear that it has lost all reason.

By: Richard Silverstein

Richard Silverstein — Mon, 11 Jan 2010 21:10:42 +0000

How pathetic. The daughter of an Israeli Supreme Court justice who interns for the Israeli foreign ministry? Really.

By: 1 world currency

1 world currency — Mon, 11 Jan 2010 20:49:39 +0000

From the article:
“What did the security guard think she would find by forcing Dirbas to strip naked? A disk full of secret terrorist documents perhaps hidden in her private parts??”

MAYBE A CHEMICAL BOMB.

By: DICKERSON3870

DICKERSON3870 — Sun, 20 Dec 2009 02:49:30 +0000

SEE ALSO: “Police shoot U.S. student’s laptop upon entry to Israel” – Haaretz, 12/15/09 – Israel News
http://www.haaretz.com
(By Bar Ben Ari and Or Hirshauga) Israel Border Police officers shot at an American student’s laptop as she entered Israel via Taba, Egypt, two weeks ago. Lily Sussman, 21, wrote on her blog that border police subjected her to two hours of questioning and searches prior to shooting her Apple Macbook…
ENTIRE HAARETZ ARTICLE – http://www.haaretz.com/hasen/spages/1135243.html
SUSSMAN’S ORIGINAL BLOG POST (1,135 comments) – http://lilysussman.wordpress.com/2009/11/30/im-sorry-but-we-blew-up-your-laptop-welcome-to-israel/
MONDOWEISS UPDATE (WITH VIDEO 2:51) – http://mondoweiss.net/2009/12/lily-sussman-says-her-famous-computer-is-kind-of-symbolic-of-israeli-aggression.html

By: Mary

Mary — Sat, 19 Dec 2009 02:03:46 +0000

I’m so tired of that hooey about Israel’s “survival.” Its survival is not and has not ever been at risk.

By: Richard Silverstein

Richard Silverstein — Sat, 19 Dec 2009 00:33:26 +0000

Thanks for the static, “Ahmed” or whatever your hasbarist name is. Calling yrself “Ahmed” may seem like a witty joke to you but it’s dissembling & I frown on it here.

Just think you could actually spend some time & use some brain power to write an intelligent comment & instead you waste our time & yours with such garbage.

By: Mary

Mary — Fri, 18 Dec 2009 22:10:06 +0000

My friend in the West Bank says the same thing. He travels frequently, and of course he must exit Palestine via the Allenby Bridge and fly from Jordan. Being a male in his 30′s, he is used to lengthy delays and questioning whenever he re-enters Palestine. As for the rummaging through his luggage, damaging of his property and endless questioning, he simply says, “they like to bother people.” He also said this during the attack on Gaza last winter, when the IDF broke the windows of all the houses in the neighborhood because some of the residents had taken part in a demonstration. I give him a lot of credit for that.

By: Shirin

Shirin — Fri, 18 Dec 2009 08:31:41 +0000

Friends of mine who are Palestinian natural-born citizens of The Only Democracy in the Middle East have all reported to me that when they fly they are routinely subjected to treatment that clearly has absolutely no security purpose. This is particularly true for young males. I remember one young friend whose mother had sent with him some home-made sweets to take to his uncle’s family in the U.S., which the security folks at Ben Gurion found necessary to crush thoroughly and even smear on the other contents of the bag he was carrying them in. When I said that would have enraged me he replied that he was used to that kind of thing, and didn’t get all that upset about it.