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Old 4th Jan 2010, 13:09
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The article would have earned more respect had the author (writing out of unashamed self-interest) been up-front and admitted how heavily the Israelis rely on RACIAL profiling. How many Arab-Israelis are dealt with in 25 minutes? Or indeed how many white UK citizens? Every colleague who has been there has experienced at least 90 minutes of deeply unpleasant and intrusive interviews which bear little relation to his account.

We could endlessly debate whether or not such profiling is wrong; but to arrogantly and dishonestly claim to have invented some "magic bullet" that the rest of the world must copy doesn't help anyone.
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