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Old Mar 25, 2005 | 5:36 am
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TLV is the most nakedly racist airport on the planet. Passengers are given stickers according in part to their ethnicity. Anyone with an Arabic or Muslim name (irrespective of nationality, profession, age etc) is plastered with red stickers and is subjected to an intimate search of his or her belongings in full view of all the other passengers, and then assigned a minder who will be attached like a limpet and only detach once the passenger is through passport control. The only people who can enjoy Tel Aviv and its beaches and restaurants are those who are willing and able to turn a blind eye to such violent racism, of which the airport security practices are only the mildest incarnation.
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