Israel/Palestine
In reply to the discussion: New Israeli search method at West Bank checkpoint worries Palestinians [View all]Ken Burch
(50,254 posts)It would also help to require the troops to treat Palestinians with courtesy, respect, and the presumption of innocence, AND to have medical stations, including cardiac care units, at the checkpoints(if an old man is at the checkpoint and he says his wife is having chest pains, you could take them aside and deal with it medically and quickly WITHOUT compromising anyone's security or safety).
But the part that gets missed is the degree to which these searches, as currently conducted, with people being made to wait for hours, given the "we know your kind" attitude, and collectively humiliated, has a lot to do with some Palestinians being provoked into supporting extreme actions. If you goad a person, ANY person, at some point that person will lose it. Therefore, it goes against any security interest to allow goading and humiliation to be part of the process. There has to be some way of searching people without making it a show of force on the one side's part and a collective humiliation on the other.
And there simply couldn't be any possible justification for forcing people to vomit at the checkpoints.