Since the foiled underpants bomber on Christmas, advocates and friends of Israel as well as media talking heads have all argued that Israeli security techniques should be applied in the United States to make us all safe. Israeli Security agencies claim their sole airport had no airport security breach since 2002 when a passenger managed to take a firearm into a flight. CNN did a special on Israel behavioral profiling, bloggers are already bragging about how Israel airport security techniques can save the day and keep us all safe, “What Can Israel Teach the U.S. About Airport Security?” wrote Allison Kaplan Sommer. David Harris wrote “What Israel Can Teach the World About Airport Security”
Those articles had to be written by individuals who the luxury to use Israel’s only International airport Ben-Gurion. While Israel continues to deny Most Palestinians, the majority of Arabs and all citizens of Muslim nations from using their airport even for a transit. Discriminating against people and using collective punishment is the only way Israel survives and not because they are more intelligent than the hard working American security agencies. The few Palestinians who use the airport (mostly Jerusalem residence, and foreign passport holders) vow to never use Israel’s airports for the humiliation and mistreatment they are greeted with. The few Palestinians permitted to use the airport are always assigned a security escort that shadows them during their time at the Israeli airport and that’s one aspect of the brutal security at Ben-Gurion that Palestinians have to live with. Unlike Israel, the States has tens of airports and a dozen of international airports as well as a little timeless document called the constitution that has established checks and balance. There are also things like civil and human rights that Israel has little regards to.
While those practices certainly keep Israel safer, they are also bad for business as Israeli airports loses a lot of business for those discriminatory practices. Israel stops at nothing to address the symptoms of the deices rather than the actual disease itself–their illegal occupation. Israel fails to see that the real problem in its security is not in what we have in our underpants and shoes, it is what we have in our minds.
But that’s just my opinion, here is the shocker that gives the Israeli cheerleaders the Middle finger. Schiphol, Holland, is the airport where Umar Farouk Abdulmutallab boarded the Airbus 330 heading for Detroit is actually under a contract with an Israeli security company ICTS to provide security and screening. According to a News Story it is an Israeli company that is in charge of security a the Holland airport was established in 1982 and today employs 11,000 security personnel in 22 countries. So all of you dogmatic right wingers and forgetful liberals put that in your pipe and smoke on it for awhile.
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There are hundreds of airports in the US and dozens of international airports. Maybe Iraq should learn from Israel (and the US and anybody who wants to help Iraq) how to keep terrorists out of the country.
Posted by Iraqi_Mojo | January 3, 2010, 2:05 amFirst I read that the Israelis had the security contract for that Dutch airport. Great blog! Posted on FB
Posted by mauryk2 | January 3, 2010, 3:01 amGreat post as usual Hanitizer!
Posted by Ana Min Falastin | January 3, 2010, 4:11 amThanks for that tidbit about Schipol's security company haha
Posted by MohammadKF | January 3, 2010, 8:56 amThe Irony of it All. Nicely put.
They should mix it with the hasish, then smoke it; caus they ain't going to remember it either ways.
Posted by OooKhalid | January 3, 2010, 1:20 pmAnother brilliant bitch slap!! Thanks.
Sharing w my pals on FB. Viva Palestina!
Posted by Bonita Caracciolo | January 3, 2010, 1:31 pmThe same Israeli security firm, ICTS, was in charge of security at all the airports involved in the 9-11 attacks as well. Another Israeli security firm, Verint, had been given the contract for the video surveillance systems in the London Tube system which allegedly malfunctioned the day of the 7/7 attacks.
Coincidences abound.
Posted by Sean2009 | January 3, 2010, 5:18 pmisrael cannot survive without the u.s. of a. friend.
+ you should stop portraying 'the states' as if they're the one and only democratic nation in the universe.
"are more intelligent than the hard working American security agencies."
"as well as a little timeless document called the constitution that has established checks and balance. There are also things like civil and human rights that Israel has little regards to."
civil and human rights? maybe the us doesn't always do their shit inside of the us, if you know what i mean, with all the wars waged and shit.
it's also funny how the arab-american style of thinking actually has a tiny portion of 'respect' to the usa. i just have one piece of advice, you should view things from a different perspective man. maybe smoking weed/more weed is the thing to do.
cheers
Posted by ikhs | January 3, 2010, 6:33 pm"it's also funny how the arab-american style of thinking actually has a tiny portion of 'respect' to the usa."
From your perspective, do all Arab Americans think the same way? I am also guilty of generalizing about Arabs and Arab Americans, especially with respect to Iraq, but Arab American views on America are not all the same. And what's wrong with respecting the country we live in? America offered us freedom when Arab nationalists threatened us with imprisonment and death. We have true freedom in America. We don't have to worry about whether we can criticize US policy, whether it will land us in jail or worse.
Posted by Iraqi_Mojo | January 3, 2010, 6:53 pmI'm not saying each and every one of them, I'm talking about the 'most' here.
And all that about freedom and whatnot, I don't really feel that it's that form of matter, being in an arab country definitely sucks ass, but still, what america offers you is the same plan, but it's wrapped in a different packaging, products.
1st world 2nd world 3rd world, it's all the same idea, each one of those just plays a different game, same shit, different world.
"America offered us freedom when Arab nationalists threatened us with imprisonment and death."
it offered, you, personally, freedom. but on the other hand most of your people are getting killed 'back home' by america
Posted by ikhs | January 6, 2010, 12:40 am"Discriminating against people and using collective punishment is the only way Israel survives"
i am sorry. first of all its not true. but what about usa-they have thousands of illigal citizens, drugs and terror. same in russia. so what is better to be very concerned about who cross your boardears or to cry after thousands of people dies in terract??? i am sorry its rethoric question.
Posted by ilona@israel | January 4, 2010, 3:27 pm… here is the shocker that gives the Israeli cheerleaders the Middle finger. Schiphol, Holland, is the airport where Umar Farouk Abdulmutallab boarded the Airbus 330 heading for Detroit is actually under a contract with an Israeli security company ICTS to provide security and screening.
What does that have to do with anything? Why are the Dutch even hiring "contractors" to do their security anyway? Isn't that the job of the Dutch government? Especially in this day and age? We all have to trust our lives to some privately owned security contracting company? That doesn't make me very happy, Hanitizer. Does it make you happy? Why do I get the feeling that the majority of KABOBfesters would like to see what little airport security we have now be degraded even further?
Personally I think Obama needs to do away with Department of Homeland Security and come up with something better. Making the same minimum wage nitwits who weren't doing the job before 9/11 into government employees who still don't do their jobs competently was just a "feel good" measure to make people think the feds had everything under control after 9/11. As far as I know DHS has a success rate of 0%. Can anyone dispute that? So what's the point of all the extra hassle people go through now versus before 9/11?
Posted by programmer craig | January 5, 2010, 4:36 pmIsraeli security specialists are the worlds premier experts on safety and protection, as they are dealing with Islamic terrorists more than anyone else. Their techniques and expertise are essential, now more than ever.
So yes, Israel can be a great help to the U.S. when it comes to airline safety. They are the very good at it, they have to be.
Posted by eagle007blogger | January 5, 2010, 8:41 pmNone of my relatives have been killed by Americans, except my mother's aunt, whose death in 1991 can be blamed on sanctions.
You would have to live in a dictatorship, one similar to Stalin's or Saddam's in order to appreciate America's freedoms.
I wonder what percentage of Arabs are clueless enough to think Americans are the ones killing Iraqis in the most horrific ways.
"Today, Sunni-Shia divisions come in the form of a resurgent Iran pitted against a coalition of Sunni-Arab states, namely Saudi Arabia, Jordan and Egypt. Whether or not our leaders articulate it (or even understand it), in the eyes of our Sunni allies America's mission in Iraq has been to uphold a Shia-ruled, Iranian-aligned country with arguably the third largest reserves of oil in the world. To put it simply, many governments in the region would benefit from our mission's failure.
Over the years, thousands upon thousands of Sunni jihadists have streamed into Iraq from places such as Saudi Arabia, Libya, and Egypt. Making up a small minority of the Sunni insurgency, these foreign jihadists are nevertheless responsible for some of the most gruesome acts of violence, mass-casualty events aimed at stoking a chain reaction of sectarianism."
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/nathan-gonzalez/the…
Posted by Iraqi_Mojo | January 6, 2010, 1:43 am"I wonder what percentage of Arabs are clueless enough to think Americans are the ones killing Iraqis in the most horrific ways. "
oh i'm sorry, america never waged any wars or killed anyone..
now i see your point
Posted by ikhs | January 10, 2010, 5:05 pmDid I say America never waged wars or killed anyone? You must be one of the educated Arabs.
LOL
Posted by Iraqi_Mojo | January 10, 2010, 5:09 pmI'm not so sure its a hatred of Shia so much as it is a hatred of democracy. There are certainly elements of both though…one thing that Khamenei and King Abdullah can agree on is that a democracy between them is a very bad thing.
Posted by C.H. | January 6, 2010, 1:55 amThere is no state called Israel.
State of thieves called Israel a
basis of the displacement
and killing of Innocent nation .
state of thieves basis
bloodshed and war
And the arrest of people
for tens of years to
prevent him from claiming
The right to life .
basis steal the land of the
Palestinian people
And then steal
the land of the Arab-Muslim
the entire .State of the
thieves do not know the law …..
Does not recognize the
law of the United Nations,
a state that considers itself above the
law . the law is the siege of Gaza
And the bloodshed and
destruction of houses and
killing innocent people
and occupying the country
This is a country named Israel thieves
Posted by araBmuslim | November 7, 2010, 7:49 pmThis is what we bloggers call a poetryFAIL. Maybe it comes out better in Arabic, so you should then write it in Arabic. I'm not even speaking of content here, just the poetry itself. I don't know about the thieves of Israel, but you stole my 2 minutes of life and I want it back!
Posted by Victor_Shikhman | November 7, 2010, 8:53 pm