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I lived in Israel for 6 years. I do not want to have an Israel/Palestine debate, I just want to talk about airport security. I go insane at airports in the US because these people do not know what they are doing. In Israel, they hire the best and the brightest just out of their army service to do airport security. They have their pick of applicants because the jobs are well-paid, and offer fantastic benefits, one of which is the chance to live abroad in the various countries served by El Al. Housing and stipend paid for.

I understand that much of what El Al does for security screening amounts to racial profiling. But surely we can take what they have established and work with them to make it better and conform to US laws and civil rights. I am sad because we don't even try.

Instead, we have underpaid dolts who don't know what a bookmark is (happened to me).