My Trip To The Ramallah Checkpoint

1:11 pm: Arrive at the Checkpoint. Queue up for the First Turnstile. Roughly fifteenth in line.

1:28 pm: Allowed through the First Turnstile. Make my way to Gate 2. Again, roughly 20th in line.

1:38 pm: Gate 2 is arbitrarily closed. Gate 1 is opened. When the dust settles, I am once again about 20th in line.

1:48 pm: Now first in line, but the three gentlemen who just went through are being yelled at and coming back out.

1:51 pm: Informed that Gate 1 has now been closed, and Gate 2 is open. I go from being next in line to (you guessed it) somewhere around 20th.

2:02 pm: Make it through the checkpoint.

Multiple Choice Quiz:

1. I was trying to get from:
(a) A Palestinian territory to an Israeli territory.
(b) A Palestinian territory to a Palestinian territory.

Correct answer: B

2. I am a:
(a) Terrorist
(b) Filthy Terrorist
(c) Devil
(d) Citizen of the one country currently keeping Israel from being "reclaimed" by the rest of the Middle East

Correct answer: D

3) If the United States subjected its own citizens to this kind of treatment, there would be:
(a) Rejoicing
(b) Riots in the street
(c) Revolution

Correct answer: B and/or C

4) If the United States subjected Israeli citizens to arbitrary checkpoints and baggage searches when they visited our country, Israel would:

(a) Thank us
(b) Be indifferent
(c) Accuse us of being anti-Semetic, anti-Jewish, and probably find some reason why we were responsible for the Holocaust

Correct Answer: C

5) The Ramallah Checkpoint is strategically placed so as to stop:

(a) Terrorists from blowing up Israeli towns
(b) Palestinians from traveling in Palestine

Correct Answer: B

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