Just another interrogation: My encounter with the Shin Bet
http://972mag.com/just-another-shin-bet-interrogation/68619/
For one Palestinian citizen of Israel, interrogations by the Shin Bet are a routine which include delays and harassment for no apparent reason.
A month ago I went through the humiliating routine on my return from Amman. I find it impossible to let the procedure pass without responding. Possibly, it was this previous, heated exchange that suspended, if only briefly, my expected round of humiliation this week.
On that earlier occasion, as so often before, I ended up in an argument with two “security” men from the Shin Bet. (Similar confrontations occur when I arrive at or leave from Tel Aviv’s Ben Gurion airport.) After an hour of unnecessary delays, the two asked me to put my bag on a raised bench. One of them opened it and roughly began searching the contents: some clothes and two books.
I protested angrily: “Why don’t you do that more gently?”
He answered with a feigned calm: “You must accept everything that happens here in a nice way.”
I responded: “How can I deal with racist treatment and humiliation in a nice way?”
The other man, annoyed by the comment, interrupted loudly: “Tell me, why do you hate us?”
Next, the confrontation developed into a back-and-forth of accusations, with a subtext of politics.
I answered: “Who hates whom, me or you?”
He said: “I read your writings and you hate us.”
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