Originally Posted by prof
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.
Gosh! Even more racist than Saudi Arabia and many other Middle Eastern countries where anyone who is Jewish isn't allowed into the country, period? And spare a thought at this time of year for Christians in Saudi Arabia who want to attend Easter church services - they can't, because churches aren't allowed in that country.
I won't go on, for fear of breaching this board's T&Cs, which you seem to be perilously close to doing.