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JohnyCanuck

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4. Those LAX immigration officers were just trying to be nice......

Reply to rachel1 (Original post)

Thu Feb 21, 2013, 12:21 AM

Feb 2013

No doubt they just wanted to make bim feel at home, like he was back in Palestine where,as Burnat points out, the Palestinians have to put up with these types of intrusive interrogations at the numerous Israeli occupier's checkpoints on a regular basis.

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