Only Lasting Palestinian To World Culture: Need For Airport Security

While hijacking was not a Palestinian invention, Palestinians hijacked the phenomenon and made it their own.

Brussels, September 12 – Travelers around the world continued to marvel today at the sole lasting significant phenomena produced by the movement to deny Jews sovereignty in their ancestral homeland: the drudgery of airport screening measures, invasive rifling through bags, emptying of pockets, Barring of liquids from carry-on bags, annoying swipes with security wands, and other exasperating, expensive, and time-consuming experiences developed to counter the tactics of the movement’s pioneers.

The Palestinian national movement, which came into being as a response to Zionism, in an effort to undo the unacceptable existence of Jews not under Islamic domination, has employed numerous stratagems to further its aims. These have included shooting at Jews, stabbing Jews, bombing Jews, boycotting Jews, inciting violence against Jews, slandering Jews, and in general fomenting mistreatment of Jews. None of those measures, however, are unique to the Islamic world. The one that does stand out as uniquely Palestinian in the popular consciousness will forever remain the hijacking of aircraft as a tool for blackmail.

Palestinians and their allies were not the first to hijack airplanes. Their chief exploits as remembered nevertheless do not include any characteristic constructive or beautiful contributions to mankind, in contrast to what humans have come to expect of any other culture, certainly one as ancient and indigenous as Palestinians claim to be to the Levant. Still, while hijacking was not a Palestinian invention, Palestinians hijacked the phenomenon and made it their own. The spate of Palestinian and pro-Palestinian hijackings of international airliners in the 1960’s and 70’s may have failed to achieve the stated goals of each operation, but they did inspire 9/11, the shoe bomber, and of course the underwear bomber, possibly the most suitable metaphor for the entire Palestinian nationalist movement’s leadership decisions, all the more because he was not Palestinian in origin, like the Palestinian flag, or indeed Palestinian nationalism itself.

Despite the non-Palestinian origins of airplane hijacking, the phenomenon has attained immortality as the sine qua non of Palestinian “resistance’ operations – representing not only the only significant lasting Palestinian contribution to world culture, but the only successful instance of Palestinians asserting dominance over something and have it become theirs in the mind of the rest of humanity.

General public sentiment toward the Palestinian cause has not followed the path of other reactions to cultural contributions, which in general produce at least some positive feelings toward the society and people that made the contribution. Oddly, even the societies that profess support in public for Palestinian aspirations, in private or on other occasions express exasperation, even hate, for the group that enjoys far more per capita international assistance than any other recipients, yet has failed for more than a century to oust the weak, dhimmi Jew.

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