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[ThisLittleLightofMine]

EL AL needs to expand their airline to fly domestically in the USA, they would be the airline of choice.

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"But because federal policy still bans ethnic or religious profiling, US passengers continue to be singled out for special scrutiny mostly on a random basis. Countless hours have been spent patting down elderly women in wheelchairs, toddlers with pacifiers, even former US vice presidents -- time that could have been used instead to concentrate on passengers with a greater likelihood of being terrorists. "

But that's not politically correct and would hurt the feelings of terrorists and those of their ethnicity and belief.

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[goldstategop]

Jeff Jacoby has it right: in America, we focus on keeping bad things off a plane; in Israel, they focus on keeping bad people off a plane. So with limited resources, what do you do? Check for anything that might be conceivably used as a weapon or check for potential suspects who could pose a danger on a flight. No one likes ethnic profiling but when you consider ALL the terrorists to date who have been caught are MUSLIM, it does NOT make sense to randomly search grandmothers or veterans to avoid causing offense to Muslim feelings. We should not allow political correctness to keep us from saving lives, which counts a lot more in the long run than whether someone's pride was injured during a search of their person.

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