Newsgroup: it.politica.internazionale
Titolo: Israeliano 'umiliato ' nell' aereoporto di Auckland...

E non un israeliano qualunque...ma un 'senior israeli juwish agency
official'...
Dopo la magra figura fatta qualche settimana fa dove due agenti del mossad
sono stati arrestati per la storia dei passaporti, e' chiaro che ora agli
israeliani vengono applicate attenti controlli...
Quello che piu mi piace e' che per una volta sono gli israeliani ad ricevere
le dovute 'attenzioni' in un 'checkpoint'...<g>
http://www.nzherald.co.nz/storydisplay.cfm?storyID=3565481&thesection=news&thesubsection=general
 Israeli official wants NZ Customs staff disciplined over search and
interrogation
10.05.2004
1.00pm - By YEHONATHAN TOMMER
JERUSALEM - A senior Israeli Jewish Agency official has protested to Israeli
Foreign Minister Silvan Shalom after claiming he was subjected to a
humiliating search and interrogation by New Zealand customs officials at
Auckland Airport last week.
A spokesman for the minister confirmed today that he had received a letter
from Jewish Agency Treasurer Shay Hermesh and "is aware of the situation",
but declined to indicate what action would be taken.
A copy of the letter was also forwarded to Canberra to the embassy's acting
Ambassador non-resident and non-resident envoy in Wellington, Orna Segev.
In his sharply-worded complaint to the minister detailing his three-hour
ordeal, Mr Hermesh said he was treated like a suspected drug dealer.
Mr Hermesh said he and his aide, Yigal Selah, were taken aside to a huge
auditorium where the contents of their suitcases were stripped to their
minutest items.
"Each tie and every sock was examined by detection devices for dangerous
chemicals. My diary aroused special interest.
"What business is it of theirs who I meet with and when?"
Mr Hermesh said that Mr Selah's mobile phone was seized as he attempted to
make contact with their hosts, representing Auckland's 4000-strong Jewish
community.
He said the phone was dismantled in search of suspected wiretapping and
other spying devices.
A junior customs official conducting the interrogation asked whether Mr
Hermesh had been dispatched to New Zealand as an "opium dealer".
Mr Hermesh said that to add insult to injury, a senior airport official
arriving on the scene in response to their protests, declined to give
assistance.
To their astonishment, he told them that all Israelis were suspects.
Mr Hermesh said that the pair was told "only drug smugglers, criminals and
murderers come from your country".
Mr Hermesh, whose status in the World Zionist Organisation ranks with a
senior Israeli Cabinet Minister, was travelling on a "government service"
issued passport, internationally recognised as a diplomatic equivalent. Mr
Hermesh and Mr Selah were allowed to leave the airport only after they had
shown the officials their return airline tickets to Israel.
The incident was widely reported on Sunday in the Israeli media, and linked
as fall-out to the two arrested Israelis, Elisha Kara and Uri Kelman, who
are awaiting trial in Auckland as suspected Mossad agents charged with
forging New Zealand passports.
Speaking today with NZPA by telephone from his hotel in Melbourne, where he
is a guest of the local Jewish community, Mr Hermesh said that he expected
disciplinary action against the two airport customs officials, who could be
identified by the signed reports they had presumably filed of the incident.
"They exercised a total lack of judgment, like officials of a terrorist
state. I am sure their individual behaviour does not reflect government
policy and hope my experience does not augur bad times for Israeli visitors
in New Zealand.
"But I expect Wellington to assure Israelis that they are as welcome in New
Zealand as the citizens of other countries."
Customs and Ministry of Foreign Affairs and Trade officials said yesterday
they had not received a complaint from Mr Hermesh.
A Customs spokeswoman said there were differences in diplomatic passports.
To gain exemptions an individual had to be diplomatically accredited to New
Zealand or have a special visa.
"If you have a diplomatic passport and no accreditation you are subject to
normal process."
- NZPA


http://www.nzherald.co.nz/storydisplay.cfm?storyID=3565481&thesection=news&thesubsection=general
Ma la parte piu' bella e':
"To their astonishment, he told them that all Israelis were suspects.
Mr Hermesh said that the pair was told "only drug smugglers, criminals and
murderers come from your country".
Morale della favola: I love NZ...now even more...
K

and murderers come from your country".
Azz... Un bel gruppetto di antisemiti quindi.  Beh, visto che e' la
patria del Kiwi non ci si poteva aspettare qualcosa di tanto diverso :)
-Stefano

 Morale della favola: I love NZ...now even more...
Infatti :)  Tu con gli antisemiti come quelli ci vivi benissimo e si era
sempre capito :)
-Stefano