The Israelis were on a French plane.

Air France Flight 139 to be precise.

I agree with you about ‘profiling’ and the same goes for “political correctness”.

דקדקנות פוליטית (political meticulousness) exists but it doesn’t have the same connotation ..

I just added a footnote to the article relating to political correctness.

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Daniel just pointed out ..

The plane departed from Ben Gurion airport and received the same security checks as El Al flights. The only difference is that El Al places all had armed sky marshals, there was no difference in passenger screening.

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He is correct, and I will amend my article, but the several armed sky marshals that traveled on all El Al flights, might well have prevented the skyjacking, but we will never know the answer to that.

Interestingly, there is no word in Hebrew for racial profiling. It is viewed as self evident that almost all terrorists are Muslims and they should be subjected to extra scrutiny. When Hebrew speakers talk about the debate over racial profiling in the West, they actually use the English “racial profiling.” They think we are out of our minds.