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Old 8th Feb 2002, 00:51
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Really Level Five, what are you talking about?. ."Back to the gun on El Al. I’m sure El Al is very good a detecting terrorists. The old adage “it takes one to know one” comes to mind. The nation that now denounces terrorism used it very effectively themselves."

Really level 5, how so?

"The terrorist actions of the Irgun go forgotten by many these days. However, the effectiveness and the results they achieved are not lost on today’s terrorists. They see it as a lesson in how to achieve their goals. Now every Arab male between 16 and 60 represents a potential terrorist to them."

Not all of them, and not all females. But most of them. Face it, it's not 80 year old Japanese women who are bombing their pizzerias, discos, and bat mitzva parties.

"They spend vast amounts of money on security because they have to. Yesterday’s terrorists are today’s government politicians and they are on the other side of the circle."

Of whom do you refer, Level 5?

"Profiling separates a group. It treats them as suspects."

Again--who is it that is committing terrorism in Israel?

"The more they are subjected to this sort of hostile treatment, the more they see those doing it as the enemy. Hostility is now spread throughout the group, not just the radical fringe. It takes you further away from a place where people can coexist peacefully. Think of the outcry if the British had used profiling to deal with the Irgun. It would have been denounced as anti-Semitism. But it’s okay for El Al to use against Arabs!"

That's right---because it's Arabs that are the most likely to blow up El Al. Do you think that's an inaccurate statement?
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