Friday, January 1, 2010
This is just a quick link to follow -- an "aside." These are links to interesting things that, for one reason or another, I didn't place into a full posting. Click the link to visit the full article. Go to the blog index for a regular listing of posts.
CAMERA: After Detroit Terror Attack Fails, Diane Sawyer Profiles Israel - '...contrary to Sawyer and Thomas, Israel does not profile on the basis of religion or ethnicity. This should be obvious if only from the fact that 20 percent of Israel's population is Arab – if Israel profiled Arabs or Muslims the airport would ground to a halt and there would be security lines out the door. Anyone who's been to Ben Gurion knows that's not how it is. Instead Israel profiles for what could be called terrorist behavior. For example, since Gaza is a hotbed of Hamas and Islamic Jihad, anyone from Gaza would probably be subject to heightened scrutiny. But so would, say, a Christian from France who visited Gaza and met with Hamas members. That’s not racial profiling, it’s behavioral profiling...'
