Promised Land (not for everyone)

Written: 29 march 2011
Travel time: 20 — 28 february 2011
Who does the author recommend the hotel to?: For families with children
Your rating of this hotel:
4.0
from 10
Hotel ratings by criteria:
Rooms: 5.0
Service: 4.0
Cleanliness: 5.0
Food: 5.0
Amenities: 4.0
Rested with a friend at the end of February on the Dead Sea in the Isrotel hotel. The rest itself left only positive memories - the hotel is wonderful - polite staff, very good food, the room is clean, good SPA. And everything would be fine if it were not for the flight from Ovda Airport, which, unfortunately, many have already heard about.
They brought us to the airport in 2 hours (“thank you” to the host), but you need no less than 4, especially if several flights depart at the same time, because. only in order to get to an interview with the security service, we waited 1h. 40 min. Then the humiliating interrogation began - they take special pleasure in mocking women and girls traveling alone or together. I was interrogated for 40 minutes, the most idiotic questions were asked, but the dialogue became the apogee of everything: - What kind of relationship do you have with your girlfriend? , - Good, - What does this mean? Do you have a sexual relationship? I was so taken aback that I asked a counter question - And how will this affect the security of Israel? To which I was asked to shut up and answer, otherwise I might not fly anywhere. I didn't ask any more questions. We were still lucky - they didn’t undress us, didn’t shake things out of our suitcases, we were only 40 minutes late for the plane - thanks, we didn’t fly away without us  ), and we lost taxi-free, we just didn’t have time to get it. But I saw how the suitcases and bags were shaken out, how the girls, who returned in tears, were taken away for a personal search. The feeling that you have arrived in a concentration camp and are being filtered is insulting, humiliating, disgusting. You are standing in a foreign country, your ticket and passport have been taken somewhere, and you are completely dependent on the tyranny of these people.
And the most important question - what does security have to do with it, if at the end of the conversation with me, I was sent for registration, without even checking things (either they forgot, or they “don’t care”), that is. I handed over a bag that was not checked at all.

But our question was answered anyway. The security officer told me to my face: "Your government is pursuing a pro-Arab policy, so you are suffering. " Here is such a story with political geography. So welcome, dear compatriots, to the promised land. True, not for everyone.
Translated automatically from Russian. View original