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01.10.07
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'Machsom Watch': Arabs treated cruelly at airport, must protect their rights
By: Ynetnews   
Published: January 10, 2007   
 
The left-wing Machsom Watch organization, along with the New Israel Fund, want to place monitors at the Ben Gurion airport, to prevent any bad treatment of Arab passengers.

According to the request, the monitoring will be undertaken by volunteers from the organization "responsible for protecting human rights." The letter stated that the organizations emphasized that they aren't trying to delegitimize the need for security checks.

However "the organization does not accept generalized suspicion against various populations, primarily minority populations, and certainly does not accept cruelty or humiliation towards any human being under the guise of a security check."


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