Arab Labor MK says airport security 'humiliated' her children

Here we go again, Arab complex. I just returned from the US and went through the same security as described. I do not feel discriminated. Thank Yassir Arafat for all of this hassle and security, he was the first hijacker. Why cant they (Arabs) stop crying and get on with their lives?

I flew out of Ben-Gurion in September. I'm about as white-anglo-saxon-protestant looking as they come, and you know what? I was given the third degree as well. They questioned me at the gate to the airport, as soon as I got out of the taxi, and again when I was standing in line for the baggage screening. They swabbed my shoes and the inside of all my bags. I took it all in stride - I knew it was for my own good. If anything, it was amusing, but certainly not humiliating. If I can deal with it, they can too.

I flew El Al and lived to tell the tale.It was a very pleasant experience.Good and friendly service, the food was tops.I chose El Al because I wanted to arrive in one piece.

I'll take exception to your statement "that not one german person, etc.." Read the writing of Axel... I feel safe on some European Airlines, provding they're flying thru Lod and undergoing Israeli security checks...Lufthansa is always excluded...I don't & won't buy German..

It's your prerogative whioch airline to take, and a good thing too, since we wouldn't all want to compete for one line;'s business. Just please let me point out that of all the countries of this planet, the germans is one that showed true remorse and repented for what they did, and paid a huge price for it. There is no german person who doesn't know about the holocaust and - to my knowledge - is not deeply ashamed of it. By contrast, let's consider turkey (what? us slaughter Armenians? couldn't be!), Japanese (oh, korean comfort ladies? what's that?), Israel (nabqa? they brought it on themselves. occupation? ditto), US (1 M dead vietnamese? oops! 1 M dead Iraqis? saddam would have killed them anyways...). Shall I add a few? China? Russia? UK? France? As for Arabs taking El Al, I know they do - that was part of the story here. My comment was a suggestion not to, that's all. Frankly, I feel safer on most European airlines with their emphasis on training, maintenance and employees.

cheapest flight and take your chances...Most of us would prefer to get there in one piece without being hijacked or flown into buildings.. If KLM, or any other airline departs from Lod, they must undergo Israeli security measures and can be trusted...However, I wouldn't fly Lufthansa under any circumstances...A close relative die while I live in Israel, the only way to get to the U.S. in time for the funeral was to fly Lufthansa...I wouldn't take the flight and arrived after the burial..My family fully understand... We do take ELAL, it can be trusted to arrive in one piece..I don't know where you got the insane idea that EL EL doesn't have Arab passengers, it does, it was an Arab and her daughters that were under discussion....All passengers are scrutinized, for security purposes...

Your responses are enlightening, as expected. It is next to people like you that I wouldn't want to sit, since the word "human" hardly applies. The racism you all exhibit is typical of those who think that just because some jews were smart, it rubs of on all. Examples of brilliant writing: "Go ahead, fly on some gypsy airlines, maybe I`ll see your name in the papers" (BEN JABO) Sweet. if you consider Lufthansa, KLM and JAL gypsy airlines, by all means avoid them. Will leave more bargains for the rest of us. "To DEFY danger by throwing oneself at it, is NOT "civil" in my opinion. It is stupidity" (Alice of Wonderland) See comment to BEN JABO. Take El Al by all means and avoid SAS or any airline proven to have Arabic passengers. "How about flying Saudi Air instead?" (Israeli turkey) Last I saw, they don't fly into israel, and i occasionally need to go there, just like to many other countries. It's OK, there are dozens of good airlines vying for business. You can take El Al.

At present, and since 9/11, American Airports have upgraded their security checks...If you'll take the trouble and use some intelligence, you will note the three aircraft were hijacked from American Airports...A plane has never been hijacked after the passengers underwent Israeli security, both in the U.S. & Israel...Of course, if you want to take the chance, fly another airline and avoid Lod Airport, too many jews there and their presence will offend your senses..... As a matter of fact, I had occasion to fly to Cyprus, underwent a thorough check at Lod..Upon departing Cyprus, I received a very thorough body search by Cypriot authorities...They too wanted to avoid a potential hijacking...I never thought of claiming that they were being anti-semitic, just thought they were doing an excellent job of protecting me and the other passengers...Go ahead, fly on some gypsy airlines, maybe I'll see your name in the papers..

Of course, you breeze right through during security checks at American airports...They just look at you and laugh, knowing you're going to make idiotic comments...American Airports have 80 year old grandmothers disrobe in private, remove their shoes and give them a thorough security check...Planes that were hijacked on 9/11 were stolen from American Airports...Passengers departing Israel feel quite safe since the security check is quite thorough...To-date, there has never been a successful hijacking on flights that went through Israeli security...

She was an MK, given special attention, since the last MK, Bishara, who traveled abroad, proved to be a traitor giving away state secrets to the enemy...

Poor Dana we should really feel very sorry for her,a nasty and bitter crone,living in California does that to you.Lucky for Dana,that she can come on Haaretz to vent her spleen.

Some years ago in the Canaries, the Scandinavian passengers refused to board a SAS-plane, unless they removed the two Arab-Moslem-passengers from the plane. The Moslems, who live in Scandinavia, were compensated for "discriminaion" though, for they were removed! BUT they became millionaires. The FEAR that IS HOLDING all of us HOSTAGE is rewarding too to the Moslems here in the "civil" West, as you can learn from this example! To DEFY danger by throwing oneself at it, is NOT "civil" in my opinion. It is stupidity!

How about flying Saudi Air instead? I'm sure that their religious people will be more to your taste, perhaps less hairy or friendlier to you, as long as you wear your burka.

If the people who want to destroy the Jewish state are generally Arabs, shouldn't they be spot checked as eveyone is? I've been spot checked in the past, and I've lost a nail clipper.Checking is an incomveience, but it is necessary in this day.

I really don't see why people would choose El Al when there are enough other perfectly excellent airlines like Lufthansa and British Airways. The service is not particularly great, one has to show up atrociously early, the security procedcures are more labyrintian, and there's good chance of being seated next to some unpleasant hairy religious fellow in heavy polish garb in summer who'll be unfriendly and a bore. Clearly anyone with an Arab name is a target for discrimination in israel, because that's what an apartheid states do. Why expect any different? The israeli arabs are second class citizens, on land and in air, but they should fight the discrimination on the world's stage not with yet another haaretz article. And though it is not possible to avoid crazy security procedures in a country that is hardly a poster child for humanity, at least people can avoid taking religiously zealous airlines. Let those who see bombs everywhere fly El Al. I'd rather have civility and courtesy.

...at least I am not suicidal. IF the Moslem-passengers don't understand the security checks, too bad....after all it is caused by your killing sprees all over the world. Maybe the best solution for all parties is to have separate transport for Moslems and the rest of the people. Call it apartheid, that is what you, the Moslems brought back to our world! I want to live....and as long as Moslems use the same transportation with the rest of us, me TOO feel "humiliated" by the security checks.....yet I prefer them to dying.

They are presumed to be carrying money to terrorist organizations and intelligence to enemy states, make sure you frisk them thoroughly...

If she and her daughters feel hard done by,she can always go and join Azmi Bishara,in one of the numerous Arab countries that surround us. I'm sure that we won't miss her.

(Stockholm and Copenhagen airports) Dozens of complaints every day,security checks women's brassiers by "gliding a finger on top of it" Authentic.Explanation :things might be hidden beneath.

Someone should break it gently to this lady who has two daughters who were humiliated. That these searches are very necessary for theirs and our own security. We would not need these searches if these Islamists weren't hell bent on blowing everything up and killing everyone(her daughters included)It shouldn't be too hard for her and her highly educated daughters to understand this.Israel didn't invent suicide bombers,the Palestinians did.Therefore her complaints are meaningless.

I flew out of Kennedy Airport on El Al and had my luggage searched in front of everybody. The only difference was that I am a Kippa wearing Jew and my interview was conducted largely in Hebrew. I was also travelling on an Israeli solidarity trip and was wearing a nametag stating as much with a folder from our group. It happens, I dealt with it, and had a lovely trip to Israel. When I flew to Israel on another airline, I was appalled that I was not searched, not questioned, but just handed a boarding pass as though I was flying to Toledo.

All the Arabs who don't like Israeli security checks are free to cross into Jordan and fly from Amman. When the Arabs stop terrorism maybe airports will treat them more sympathetically. Until then they will be viewed as a potential terrorist until proven, through a thorough and possibly invasive search and screening, otherwise.

Now you are implying that the lady herself is playing a role in a farce. She is adult enough and outspoken enough to say that for herself, Natallie. The very fact that someone as militant as Ms Dilou does not object to her public role should make it clear to you that her role is serious. Or do you think that she is a liar too?

Her kids will be more respected there I prefer her kids to be humiliated than charred corpses from a airliner after taking off from ben gurion airport

This complaint begs the question-- so Why fly from that particular airport if it is an unacceptable humiliating experience? So is being murdered by a homicidal lunatic you would prefer to let board the aircraft in a dignified manner.

I just came back from Canada and the USA. Leaving Canada the same happened to me in front of all passengers including a physical pat down and the swabbing of my suitcases by a sniffer. From the USA to Amsterdam I was again subject to the same. If there were no terroists we would all be better off but because of them, I would rather go through the "humiliation?" and be safe

On my last trip to Israel this past winter I was searched while flying El-Al coming and going to Israel from JFK. I am Jewish and I was even flying in a Jewish group on a solidarity mission to Israel. Even after the security guard spoke to me in Hebrew and asked me a dozen or more questions did he hand me over to search for a key chain I received from the group I attended which was at the bottom of my luggage. Even the girls forced to search it told me to go on and told me it was amusing to the guy to have me searched for no reason. I did not appreciate this but it was not because I was an Arab it was because he was an Israeli.

MK Hilou: "Israeli Arabs are subjected to humiliating treatment at Ben-Gurion International Airport just because of their ethnicity." Israel Airports Authority: the treatment the two women received "was according to protocol." They each just said the same thing. Humiliating treatment for Arabs IS the protocol in Israel.

Luggage is not frisked, people are. Luggage is searched. But using the word 'frisked' in proximity to the phrase 'two women' gives those readers who skim the article the impression that the women were frisked in front of everyone. And that result is not unintentional. But what can we do -- folks at Haaretz.com are required as a condition of their employment to turn every page on their site into verbal weapons to be used against the evil zionist entity, hopefully to lead to its destruction or dismemberment and replacement by the People's Democratic Republic of Palestine.

On our return from Amsterdam, Holland, me and my 10 year old granddaughter had been very thoroughly questioned and searched. Only us - not the passangers before or after us. So what? If this is the only way (and this is!) to ensure safe flights, so be it. Please, remember who are the people blowing up planes!!

Being blown to pieces in Mike's Place pr Maxim's restaurant was a much worse form of humiliation.

Or you are just an opportunistic faker like alot of Israel-bashers here? http://www.haaretz.com/hasen/spages/908093.html One classic illustration of the dismal situation is London's Heathrow Airport. London Mayor Ken Livingstone has accused Heathrow of keeping people "as prisoners" in its "ghastly shopping mall." The line-ups for security checks became intolerable after August 2006, when a terrorist plan targeting planes flying from Britain to the United States was uncovered. Similar situations can be found at most of Europe's major airports.

My parents (non jewish) came to visit here once and were humiliated and insulted by the ELAL ground crew to the point my mother ended up crying and they have never set foot in this country again. We all understand and appreciate security concerns. I for one would never fly ELAL ever again.

She sounds hostile and unpredictable. She should probably be searched twice as thoroughly next time. If the humiliation is too great to bear, she can always move to an Arab country.

I went through the same checking as these twins, already for several times, although I'm no Israeli Arab. I consider this behaviour as a legal security check which happens in other countries, too, and which serves everybody's security. The complaining about alleged discrimination of Israeli Arabis is exaggerating. Actually it's more than exaggerating, it's somehow paranoid!

MK Hilou was humiliated when she participated in the charade which is Israeli "domocracy". Anything that happened after that is simply just desserts.

Israel airport security is one of the most efficient I've encoutered. The worse in my experience is at San Francisco. I am a white blue eyed American, and I am still always subject to the extra security at American airports, where you get an SSSSS on your boarding pass. Always. Even when with my family. Yes, it is humiliating, but what can you do? I guess if you are an MK, you can make news.

You may be upset but I am relieved that our security is so good. By the way I have had similar investigation in Spain and didn't think I was being investigated unduly and I am an old lady. This is the world we live in and it is a fact that some Arabs living in Israel have become fundamentalists so I for one am pleased with the strict security and so should you be. I haven't heard one mother of a suicide bomber say that she knew her daughter or son was bent on that mission.

MK Nadia Hilou probably thinks that the security people should practice reverse discrimination and only subject non Arabs to stringent checks. I have many friends coming from the US and Europe who have told me how tough the security people were. I am a Jewish Israeli and was pulled out of a line a few months ago and told to open my case. Apart from Arabs that occasionally winge, people believe that that airport security people do a great job!

Yes, but other European airlines are less invasive and just as safe, which is why I will fly with them. The last time (and it will be the last time) I flew El Al, with three small children, I had to have someone accompany me until I boarded simply because I am married to a Bedouin doctor. Even she admitted it was ridiculous. At the very least Arabs and anyone else concerned about protesting discrimination must boycott El Al, whose service anyone is no where near the level of many European airlines.

I see no reason why this member of parliament should expect special treatment.Recently I was strip searched in Budapest before being allowed to board a plane.We live in troubled times and the reality of the situation is that Arabs and Muslims,for whatever reasons,are at present more likely to be involved with terrorism than other groups.I am glad that security is thorough at Ben Gurion and the complainant should be glad too.Arabs cannot expect to receive special treatment they should co-operate like the rest of us.

that you might have been leaving the country taking secrets with you as Bishara did, concealing the documents and materials in your daughter's possession...

ONLY PEACE WILL SET YOU FREE! NOT ROCKETS AND SUISDE BOMBERS

Which people were involved in using planes as missles and attempting to blow up planes ?? oh yeahs arabs. You are lucky you are allowed to use israeli airports and airlines. Drive to jordan or egpyt and take an arab airline if you dont like it. Otherwise shush your mouth and deal with it.

HG speaks with fork tongue! You made it to the USA safely? How, by train from the middle east? Tell us your mind did not think of arab terror during your flight. Then we must be suspicious of you too! Only Terrorist's are not worryed about being terrorized!

HG, We see you have moved your family to Texas too! Even you are suspicious of and afraid of Arab suiside bombers! People in glass houses should not throw stones,HUH??

As long as Arabs continue to blow up and kill Israeli's and others in the world, people will be suspicious of them! TELL ALL YOUR PALESTINIAN AND ARAB FRIENDS TO CHOOSE PEACE NOW! AND NOT BOMBS,ROCKETS, AND BULLETS! ONLY THIS THIS WILL SET YOU FREE!

nchilo@knesset.gov.il Well I see MK Nadia Hilou's children fly El-Al airways perhaps like the rest of us, for the safe and sound security that allows us to get where we are going in one piece Unlike other airlines around the world that find their planes flying into towers! If security was not so great MK Nadia Hilou, you might be protesting the lack of it for fear of your daughters safety, from terrorists hijackers and suicide bombers! Can you imagine your daughters on a plane with Hamas, or Hezballah,or Al-qida bombers! So stop complaining and be a responsible mother!

YOU COULD REACH THE MOON IN ACCOMPLISHMENT BUT ONCE WE RETURN HOME WE BECOME AGAIN DIRTY AND SUSPICIOUS ARABS, THAT WILL NEVER CHANGE.