Homeward Bound: From the West Bank to the East Coast
What was your purpose of coming to Israel? To visit my brother for Christmas and New Years What cities did you go to while you were here? Tel-aviv, Haifa, Nazareth, Jerusalem, Bethlehem, and Ramallah- Excuse me, could you wait here for a moment? Sure :) A minute later, a different officer walked up to me. She introduced herself as the head of airport security and started asking me the same questions. What was your purpose... It was like a song on repeat. All the same questions, all the same answers. When I got to the end of my part of the chorus... "Bethlehem, and Ramallah-", Her face displayed a reaction similar to that of biting into a lemon. What is that?! A coffee mug. See it says here לקחת רגע לקפה What about these? Why are you carrying five jackets? This continued for for a while and the next five hours were filled with questions, full body scans, patdowns, and searches through everything. The punchline to this is that ...