This is what it takes for US President to go to Jerusalem

[amirm]

Amazing world we live in: http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-4522438/Trump-stay-bomb-proof-Jerusalem-hotel-room.html

Trump 'to stay in $5,700-a-night bullet-proof, bomb-proof, poison gas-proof Jerusalem hotel room that can withstand building collapse' during visit to Israel

• As part of his first foreign trip, President Donald Trump is set to arrive in Israel on Monday for a two-day visit
• US and Israeli security services are undertaking a massive security operation to safeguard the president
• Trump will stay at the presidential suite of the luxurious King David Hotel in Jerusalem on Monday night
• US security operatives have started to outfit the hotel room windows with 'RPG-resistant glass'
• Trump's 'bullet-proof, bomb-proof, poison gas-proof suite' is said to be able to withstand 'a building collapse'

President Donald Trump's first trip abroad will be to the volatile Middle East, so security will be paramount for the commander in chief.

On his second stop, Israel, the president will be staying overnight in one of the safest places on earth – a bomb-proof, bullet-proof, poison gas-proof $5,700-a-night hotel suite that can withstand a rocket-propelled grenade or even a building collapse, NBC News reported on Friday."


http://www.nbcnews.com/storyline/tr...it-major-security-jerusalem-bethlehem-n760761

"JERUSALEM — You've heard of armored vehicles for world leaders and A-list celebrities. Now President Donald Trump is about to get an armored hotel suite.

A huge security operation has been launched that aims to envelop the president and his 1,000-person entourage during his visit to Jerusalem and Bethlehem next week.

Trump's accommodation during the second stop on his trip will be a bomb-proof, poison gas-proof and bulletproof hotel room built to withstand the collapse of the entire building, according to Sheldon Ritz, operations manager for Jerusalem's King David Hotel.

“Nothing is taken for chance so Trump and his family will be very safe”

"The presidential suites have independent air conditioning in case of a gas attack and are built to withstand a RPG [rocket-propelled grenade]," he said of the super-luxurious suites that cost around $5,700 per night. "But still the U.S. is bringing rocket-proof glass to put in front of the window.""

1,000 people are going with him? How about a video conference instead and giving the cost of that trip to charity?

 

[Thomas savage]

I hear this is similar to when @Sal1950 goes back to Chicago... maybe trump could ask sal for some advice .....

 

[Jinjuku]

That's nothing. His suite at Berkeley is $9000 a night

 

[Thomas savage]

That's nothing. His suite at Berkeley is $9000 a night

That's nothing compared to ' the king of audio' ... I hear amir spends more on fresh towels, though why he insists on buying them from Don King is beyond me...

 

[RayDunzl]

How about a video conference instead and giving the cost of that trip to charity?

Same reason you bought a camper.

I just see a slightly different scale.

 

[RayDunzl]

"The hotel — which has been targeted before, most famously in 1946 when militant Zionists
fighting for an independent state bombed the building and killed 91 — is only part of the plan
to safeguard the president.


British soldiers dig their way through the debris in search of survivors after a blast at
the King David Hotel in 1946. Fox Photos / Getty Images

Israel's Operation "Blue Shield" will involve undercover police, special patrols, motorcycle officers,
sniffer dogs and helicopters.

More than 10,000 police officers will be tasked with securing his trip throughout Jerusalem, the
restive holy city that both Israelis and Palestinians claim as their capital.

"The level of security will be at its highest," said Micky Rosenfeld, a spokesman for the Israeli police.
"It is a top priority that there is close coordination with the U.S., making sure the visit goes exactly
according to plan."

Palestinian officials also said they were working with the U.S. on logistics, such as Trump's crossing
from Jerusalem to Bethlehem and meeting with Palestinian leader Mahmoud Abbas.

"All the roads he will be passing through will be secured and emptied of vehicles," said Maj. Gen. Adnan Damiri,
the spokesperson for the Palestinian security forces. "Armored cars and police dogs trained to detect explosive
materials will be used in cooperation with American security."

On Thursday, local media began reporting that a full-blown U.S. airlift had begun. Laden with equipment
and dozens of vehicles, around 30 C-17 military planes arrived in Israel."

The Sand People can be pretty rough. I'd be cautious over there, myself, except I ain't going.

 

[Blumlein 88]

Amir must not have seen that documentary on presidential visits abroad, "London has Fallen". It would all make sense to him then.

 

[Blumlein 88]

Same reason you bought a camper.

I just see a slightly different scale.

If Amir keeps writing Schiit, he may need rocket proof glass on his camper van.

 

[Thomas savage]

If Amir keeps writing Schiit, he may need rocket proof glass on his camper van.

All that Schitt thrown at amir, he needs military grade windscreen wipers on that camper van of his no doubt ..

 

[amirm]

I didn't think about that when I reviewed that schiit....

 

[Sal1950]

Shows you how badly those terrorist SOBs are afraid of Trump!

 

[Sal1950]

How about a video conference instead and giving the cost of that trip to charity?

Way past time we made a show of support to Israel as opposed to the coward of the last 8 years.

 

[Blumlein 88]

For some reason picturing the camper van cross country reminds me of this old 1970's movie. A parody of all the 1970's disaster movies, especially the Airplane movies. Its goofy and its corny and it always cracks me up. The Big Bus, a nuclear powered superbus making a non-stop New York to Denver inaugural voyage befallen by all sorts of disasters. You know the schiit has hit the oscillator when you have to fly the flags of all nations. Here is a 3 minute trailer of it. Maybe this should be in the movies sub-forum:

 

[Sal1950]

For some reason picturing the camper van cross country reminds me of this old 1970's movie.

Ever see the Lucy/Desi movie The Long Long Trailer?

 

[JoeWhip]

Way past time we made a show of support to Israel as opposed to the coward of the last 8 years.

Yeah, sure. US policy hasn't really changed since 1947. Where has it gotten us? Reminds me of Einstein's oft quoted definition of insanity.

 

[Jinjuku]

Yeah, sure. US policy hasn't really changed since 1947. Where has it gotten us? Reminds me of Einstein's oft quoted definition of insanity.

Where has it gotten any of the players involved?

 

[JoeWhip]

Exactly. Which is why a different approach was and is needed. But if you try, you are anti-Israel or a "coward". Absurd really.

 

[Ron Party]

Just a suggestion: keep politics out of ASR. Way too much emotion and animosity.

 

[amirm]

Good suggestion Ron. I post the article as a bit of levity and not as encouragement for discussion of politics.

 

[Blumlein 88]

Ever see the Lucy/Desi movie The Long Long Trailer?

Yes loved the ascent of the Rockies and Lucy's hidden souvenir rocks.