First, I was sad, and now I am angry. Israeli airline did not want to allow my friend Lamis to return to Acre after all. This is the crux of the Palestinian issue; this is why Zionism is racism-always. Somebody deeply rooted in Chicago or Warsaw is deciding whether somebody who is deeply rooted in Palestine can return home for burial. "Balad Chairman Azmi Bishara on Tuesday asked El AL General Manager Haim Romano to clarify why his company allegedly refused to fly the corpse of an Israeli Muslim woman on one of its flights. The woman's family asked Bisahra to intervene after their request to transport her body from the U.S., where she died last weekend, was allegedly turned down by company representatives. The deceased, Acre-born Lamis Jerrar, worked as a lecturer at Howard University in Washington D.C. and held dual Israeli and American citizenship. After she passed away, her family tried to bring her to burial in her hometown." (thanks Eyas and Marian)