This is all a part of the ridiculous knee jerk reaction to 9/11.
Everyone outside of the US is now viewed as a potential terrorist.
Anything with a hint of electronics or technology is viewed as a
potential weapon. The American security agencies are so inept that it is
simpler to ban everyone and everything. Al Qaeda has already won.
American is a land of shit scared pussy politicians. So shit scared
anything might happen they've effectively locked themselves off. The
recent debacles with international airlines was typical, I hope the US
government gets its arse sued off. They (and our governemnt) have
instituted ridiculous 'security' policies that provide no real
protection, rather than sit down, study the problem, which, after all
has been a fact of european life for the last 40 years, and come up with
genuine solutions.
Q1. Why aren't El Al planes hijacked regularly? they are the #1 target
for Arab terrorists. In fact I can't rememeber the last one that was
hijacked.
Q2. How do the Israelis do that without imposing massive inconvenience
on passengers, as the US and AUs has done? ( I travelled El Al a lot,
and the inconveniience was always trivial, it was less inconvenience to
fly from London to Tel Aviv than it is to fly from Adelaide to
Melbourne. What a joke the banned items are.
Q3. Why haven't terrorists managed to fly a plane into any Israeli
buildings?
Israel has been fighting this sort of terrorism for years, it knows what
works and what doesn't, hire them to advise you on security, the CIA,
NSA, NRO, FBI have all failed.
Venting,
Al