Weekly Commentary: What The Police Could Have Done When The Kaplan Dictators
Threatened Ben Gurion Airport
Dr. Aaron Lerner 4 July 2023

"We have a hundred buses already positioned at Ben Gurion Airport", the
Israel Police Spokesman told reporters as he pointed at the buses, "and a
YASAM force ready to keep the airport open," pointing at thirty members of
Israel Police's elite YASAM unit dressed in their black uniforms with their
famous no-nonsense gaze.

"We have so many other security challenges on the plate today, what with the
operation in Jenin, that this is the force we can spare. So our force will
have to be extremely efficient.

We are going to follow some simple rules: step off the sidewalk and you are
in a bus.

Do anything - and I mean anything - inside the terminal and you are in a
bus.

No discussion. No second chance. Nothing.

We have cameras positioned everywhere to document the scene so it will be
relatively easy to match up this documentation with each corresponding
busload of detainees.

Each time a bus is full it will drive to the processing center we have set
up. There is a staff of five officials already positioned at the processing
center to process the detainees.

We have put our cards on the table. Don't test us."

"D E M O C R A T I Y A" shouted the Kaplan dictators.

"We have the right to block any road we want to.

We have the right to close down the airport and block the ports.

We have the right to interfere with any public and private event in the
country.

No one can stop us.

We are D E M O C R A T I Y A .

It doesn't matter who is hurt by our action. Our cause is of overarching
importance and what ever we decide goes.

We know best.

We don't have to waste our time coming up with novel ways to get our message
across.

Because we are D E M O C R A T I Y A ."

And then it started.

The Kaplan dictators weren't deterred because they thought it was just a
bluff.

It took 15 busloads - almost 750 detainees - before the remaining Kaplan
dictators left the scene.

Yes, some of the Kaplan dictators moved on to try and block roads elsewhere.
But each time, the Kaplan dictators found that instead of being, at most,
pulled off the road, they were detained and sent away for processing.

As the day progressed some of the detained Kaplan dictators complained on
live interviews via their mobile phones: "I am here in the processing
center already for hours waiting to be released. I have places to go and
things to do. How can it be in a properly run country that my valuable time
and plans are being interfered with by these processing delays. D E M O C R
A T I Y A."
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Of course this didn't happen.

Yes, the police have in fact used buses in the way I described in the past.
But that was against protestors from the national camp.

Yesterday the police let things go out of control for hours at the airport.

Under normal circumstances literally every person approaching a Terminal 3
door gets a look over. People are stopped and checked out at the slightest
suspicion.

The waves of Kaplan dictators forcing their way into Terminal 3 made this
impossible.

And many of the Kaplan dictators were carrying props.

We are lucky that a team of terrorists didn't take advantage of the complete
and total breakdown of security at Terminal 3.
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