SherriMunnerlyn,
et al,
There is a reason for searches; always!
This was an Israeli treated in this fashion by their own Israeli government, just because she was Arab.
HAS your government forced you to strip naked in front of them at an airport in your country like this?
IT'S so easy for some to discount discrimination victims of Apartheid suffer.
Israeli Jews are not subject to this treatment.
(COMMENT)
First-off, I have been subjected to invasive searches in other countries. And it is not a matter of "Apartheid" at all. It is threat based in most cases.
What is the threat?
The danger is based on the communicated threat, the capacity to carry-out that threat, and the past history of criminal behaviors demonstrating the willingness to engage in threat activity.
The Communicated Threat
The threat comes in multiple forms. It can be the open statement like:
- The statement of Issam 'Adwan (2013), HAMAS Director of Refugee Affairs Department:
- "The resistance may find itself forced to attack the enemy's interests and senior officials outside the occupied territory."
- "The Palestinian resistance may find at a certain stage that the path of martyrdom operations is more effective, and it must not rule out the use of any method that can inflict pain on the enemy and deter it.
- The resistance may find itself at a certain stage forced to damage the interests of the [Israeli] occupation's allies, and the parties that provide it with funds, arms, and media support. It is the resistance that will decide when to adopt this path, and how, when, and where.
- It can be a Policy Statement, Covenant or Charter:
- Article 9: Armed struggle is the only way to liberate Palestine. This is the overall strategy, not merely a tactical phase. The Palestinian Arab people assert their absolute determination and firm resolution to continue their armed struggle and to work for an armed popular revolution for the liberation of their country and their return to it.
- Article 10: Commando (Feday'ee) action constitutes the nucleus of the Palestinian popular liberation war. This requires its escalation, comprehensiveness, and the mobilization of all the Palestinian popular and educational efforts and their organization and involvement in the armed Palestinian revolution.
- Article 13: There is no solution for the Palestinian question except through Jihad.
- Article 15: Jihad becomes the individual duty of every Moslem.
- It can come as a solemn oath to execute an explicite action:
- The Arabs of Palestine made a solemn declaration before the United Nations, before God and history, that they will never submit or yield to any power going to Palestine to enforce partition. The only way to establish partition is first to wipe them out — man, woman and child.
It can come in various capacities:
- This morning Israeli authorities, including the Israel Defense Forces, Shin Bet, and the Israeli Police, attempted to arrest Mohammed Asi, a Palestinian wanted in connection with the Nov. 21 bus bombing in Tel Aviv, near the village of Bilin. He was killed in a shootout with IDF forces after resisting arrest.
- Actions by individuals unconnected to terror organizations present a new challenge for Israeli security forces. The biggest clues may be found after the fact on social media networks.
- The al-Aqsa Martyr Brigades (AAMB), an armed militant group tied to Abbas’ Fatah party, said in a statement released earlier this week that Friday would mark “a green light to start guerrilla operations against the brutal Israeli occupation,” according to a copy of the group’s purported statement posted on one of its websites.
- “This is a totally barbaric act. This is a deep problem with the entire Palestinian society,” Dr. Dan Shiftan, head of the National Security Studies Center at the University of Haifa, said Wednesday in response to the disturbing pictures from a Gaza kindergarten party published on Ynet. The photos showed children at an Islamic Jihad-run kindergarten celebrating their graduation by dressing up in army attire, waving toy rifles and chanting anti-Israel slogans.
Or the threat can be demonstrated by its capacity through history (piracy, hijackings, suicide bombings, ambushes, etc). And that could go on for pages.
The problem is, you don't have a threat profile that covers ever possibility. That means the security measure need to be broad and adaptable. It could come in any form, fore as the Palestinians say: By any means necessary
(cleric, school teacher, lawyer, doctor, anyone; even children). To date, there has been no limit found that the Hostile Arab Palestinian will not cross.
But that is the nature of the threat. Sad, but clearly, it is not "Apartheid" but a "Countermeasure" to the articulated potential threat presented by the HoAP. It is what it is. And if the security countermeasures become lax, don't think for a moment that the HoAP will not identify it and exploit it.
Most Respectfully,
R
