'I was put in a gas chamber,' says Israeli doctor

[zgrams at zgrams.zundelsite.org]

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Two versions of the same tale!

The Germans have a saying - I believe it is part of a poem by Goethe:

"Herr, die Not ist gross,
Die ich rief, die Geister,
werd' ich nun nicht los."

Which, loosely translated, means "Lord, my pain is great, for the 
phantoms that I roused I cannot get rid of again!"

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'I was put in a gas chamber,' says Israeli doctor

US airport security check leaves Dr Dorit Zilberman distraught, after 
reportedly being humiliated only because of her nationality. 'My 
family perished in Europe's gas chambers, I never thought 65 years 
later I would be marked, isolated, and put in a gas chamber'

An Israeli doctor who underwent tight security checks at San 
Francisco International claims that she was humiliated only because 
of her nationality.

Dr Dorit Zilberman, a senior urologist at the Chaim Sheba Medical 
Center at Tel Hashomer who was visiting the United States for the 
first time for a professional conference, claimed that airport 
security officials led her to what she called a sort of "gas 
chamber", where she was sprayed with a strong current of air for two 
minutes, which caused her great pain.

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Zilberman filed a complaint with the Foreign Ministry on the matter, 
and sources at the ministry said they would discuss the subject with 
the Americans, while adding that the number of Israeli complaints of 
treatment at American airports has recently been on the rise.

After her handbag passed the standard airport screening, Zilberman 
was told she had to undergo further security checks and was asked to 
step aside.

"They took me aside, examined me scrupulously. It was a pretty 
humiliating situation," Zilberman wrote in her complaint.

The doctor claimed that once she presented her Israeli passport she 
was told to walk on a different path than the other passengers. "It 
was a dead end path that led to a kind of corner," she told Ynet.

"I thought I misheard the instructions and I tried to retrace my 
steps, another woman from the security crew ordered me to stop in a 
tone as if she was talking to a retard. She told me 'You don't 
understand, it says here that you should stop and wait for a crew 
member to approach you.'"

'I have never experienced such humiliation'

Zilberman then asked another crew member why this was being done to 
her, and if it was because she was Israeli. The crew member simply 
answered, "I don't know."

Zilberman said she was then lead to a sealed chamber and asked to get 
in, she was told that she would feel "a flow like in the shower".

"When I walked in, barrages of compressed gas - probably air - were 
fired at me. Since I am thin, it was very painful. I was then taken 
out of that 'gas chamber' and taken to another corner where I was 
asked to take off my shoes, my hand bag was taken from me and my 
belongings were taken out one by one and scanned along with my shoes 
in special paper for tracing dangerous substances.

"At that point I started to cry and told the man that in my country I 
am a respected doctor, and that I had never experienced such a chain 
of humiliations. He told me that if I didn't like it, I could call 
the supervisor."

Zilberman said that in all the countries she had visited, she had 
never experienced such humiliation just because she was Israeli.

"My family perished in the gas chambers in Europe. I never believed 
that 65 years later, I would be marked, isolated and taken into a gas 
chamber."

An examination by Yedioth Ahronoth reporter Aryeh Egozi showed that 
the so-called "gas chamber" Zilberman spoke of is meant to track 
traces of explosive materials on passengers' clothing.

Air currents meant to release particles of explosives are sprayed at 
the passenger, and sensors in the chamber examine these particles.

The examination method was authorized by all relevant bodies in the 
United States and poses no damage whatsoever to the examinee. 
European airport authorities are considering applying a similar 
search method as well.