I try to guess her heritage. Maybe she is from the Netherlands or Russia. She's not an Arab. She smiles and she starts to take the objects out of my bag, slowly. I understand some of this, I say to myself.
Security is tight when two countries are at war.
But I have passed through security checks in many other cities, and this is different. But they also did that to everyone who boarded the plane. Today, I am honored by these soldiers because of my race. Both of my parents are Palestinian. The Israelis did not stop any of the other passenger who accompanied me on the bus from Amman, Jordan.