How many stories of bomb carrying terrorists dressed up as Hareidim do we have read to not understand that the latest travel “innovation” coming from Israel is laden with a terrible potential.
Now, during a time when would-be killers are trying to detonate bombs in their shoes and underwear, we seemingly come up with an idea that would let them hide onboard in plain sight.
A young man a couple of months ago was putting on his tefillin, and that action alone, motivate an airline pilot to land the plane for fear of the safety of his passengers.
Along comes something called the personal mechitza, according to reports in the Jerusalem Post.
It allows its user to set up a white nylon protective shield and keep wandering eyes from seeing in-flight movies or a person deemed un-modest.
This is added to separate seating on certain bus lines and separate gender sidewalks in certain areas of Israel that is causing its own difficult conversation.
The last thing I want to see when I am 30,000 feet in the air is someone not in view of sky marshals, flight attendants and other airline authorities.
It’s difficult enough that the Hareidim are choosing to push their separation to uncomfortable extremes, but in this day of post 9-11, this idea should be a non-starter.
If I were to say to you in August of 2001, that planes would be hijacked, commandeered and flown into the World Trade Center towers and the Pentagon, you would have looked at me askance. But the seemingly impossible was made possible.
Security is real and needs to be taken seriously and is for the protection of the man with the beard and the woman in the tank top on the same plane. Both their security and their lives are compromised by the desire of one group to not have to see the other.
At the very least, this is something that should be discussed further. It’s a dangerous cover-up.
Yes, flights can be long and boring.
But they have to be safe and secure and public.

http://muqata.blogspot.com/2010/02/exclusive-muqata-photos-personal.html

Personally, I think they should be arrested (or at least fined) for wearing 7-Mile supermarket bags on their heads in public….

I have to agree on this one Phil. There are many things you might not want to see on an airplane, and I’ll admit that the in-flight movie is a nuisance, but it can’t be at the risk of security. Rather, if you have glasses, take them off. If you don’t have glasses, get dark sunglasses and something interesting to listen to on your portable player.

Sam