Friday, September 17, 2010

Zionism

"After a long wait we reached the security inspection. A military policeman named Tal closed off the road - one of the two traffic lanes - and motioned with his hand to wait. He then took pizza from a delivery man who had arrived and went to the soldiers' room, ignoring the dozens of waiting cars with scores, if not hundreds, of people in them.   Finally the soldier emerged, approached us and asked for ID cards. After handing them to him and identifying ourselves as journalists, we asked how they could close one of the checkpoint's two lanes for pizza.
Yoni, another soldier on the shift, said he was keeping our cards and told us to wait on the side of the road as he was calling the police to question us because we came from the direction of the Palestinian Authority area."