(CAMERA) A Checkpoint Checkup

"Just as the United States imposed far tighter security at airport checkpoints after the 9/11 terrorist attacks, Israel set up more stringent security checkpoints on West Bank roads after Palestinian terrorists, including many suicide bombers, were able to use those roads to launch deadly attacks.

No doubt US airport checkpoints are usually more pleasant than Israel's road checkpoints, but what Americans have faced in airports is often inconvenient, time consuming, and even sometimes humiliating. While the aggravations of US security lines are usually ignored by the media, it is standard fare for journalists and opinion writers to refer to the Israeli checkpoints as 'humiliating' terminals at which Palestinians are forced to endure hours-long waits at the hands of snarling (or sleeping — take your pick) Israeli soldiers."

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