Apartheid 100

Flight Attendants of The Holy Land

"In My Heart, I Am Palestinian"

Diego Maradona

Soran fired his Desert Eagle at a Trump cardboard while Kencho cooked the boys lunch.

Akira: You really are edgy. You should loosen up a bit.

Kencho: Yeah. Look at yourself. Shooting at an American celebrity.

Soran: Trump was no celebrity. He was a con-artist. The Americans had him indicted for the January 6th mishap in Washington. The Zionists want to name Golan Heights after him.

Kencho (putting the food on the table): Maybe this can get your mind off the Israelis and find peace.

Soran: I'm sorry. My people have lost their land.

Kencho looked down from the building they were on and saw the IOF patrolling the streets.

Kencho: WOW. No wonder you're so desperate. It's like that old saying. History repeats itself.

Kencho had a look at Soran's notebook.

Kencho (reading the cover on the notebook): "Our Freedom is Incomplete Without the Freedom of Palestine.- Nelson Mandela"

Soran: Have you read "The Unspoken Alliance"? Our struggle is no different than the apartheid in South Africa.

Kencho (Having a look at Akira's list): "100 Things I Want to Do Before I Go To Jail" huh. "Wine & Dine with a Flight Attendant"? That's real farfetched.

Akira: Quitting my job got me to embrace the freedom.

Kencho: That's creepy the way working at an exploitative company damages your thinking. There's only 33. We're gonna need to work on this list. Mind if I add mine?

Akira: Hey! That's my list!

Kencho (Adding 34 to Akira's list): "Become a stand-up comedian".

Akira: Hey! You don't just take someone's notebook and write something down! It's like saying something FOR them.

Kencho: We can at least share. If you hadn't come, I would've been dead anyway. From now on, it's ride or die.

Akira: Okay then. Why don't we head to the Dome of the Rock. We can observe the Muslim culture at the mosque.

So they took off and headed East to the Dome of the Rock.

Kencho: I don't know about this. This is my first time experiencing the Muslim culture.

Soran: We do take our shoes off in our mosque.

Kencho: So it's like our shrines in Japan.

Soran and Akira hit the breaks on their bikes. They spotted the IOF. Behind them, there was a tank.

Kencho: Is that a Merkava? This is bad, guys! If that thing shells us…What do we do?

Akira, looking back on the girl that saved him, placed the goggles he was wearing on his eyes made a run for it. Soran followed. They rode their bikes onto the car like a ramp. This frightened Kencho.

Kencho: Who sends tanks to kill civilians?!

They stopped at the mall where they could get a TV. Trouble was, there mall was closed. Apparently it was shut down by the Israeli government. The trio opened the door. Inside, there were others hiding in the mall. There were three women and a man.

Woman A (in Japanese): You're not the Mossad.

Kencho: You're Japanese?

Woman A: How do we know they didn't send you to turn us in?

Woman B (crying): Why is Netanyahu doing this?

Soran: What are they saying?

Kencho: She's asking why Netanyahu is sending the IDF all over the city.

Soran: He's after my people. He doesn't recognize the Nakba.

Akira: "The Year of the Catastrophe"

Woman A: I need a drink.

Instead of joining in, Soran moved to the rug section where he could perform his salah in peace. Kencho and Akira along with the women helped themselves to some snacks. They introduced themselves. The first was Reika. The short hair was Maki. The third was Yukari.

Kencho: We're college buddies. What do you do for a living? Are you co-workers?

Reika: Yeah. When we land at Ben Gurion International, we got mixed up with the police.

Akira: So you're saying you're-?

Reika: That's right. We're flight attendants.

It hit Akira. His dream actually came true!

Reika: I'll go get more booze. (Spotting Soran at the rug section) Hey baby come join us.

Soran: I was praying you would let go of your addictions to alcohol and find your god.

Reika: Who needs God when we have what we need here?

Soran: Have you been to al'Aqsa?

Reika: I'm a flight attendant myself, actually. There were times I had been to Mecca where our passengers were on the pilgrimage.

As for Akira, he began thinking about the bet he and Kencho made that he could date a girl.

Akira: So, Yukari, you have a boyfriend?

Yukari: You for real?

Akira: Err…If it's not a personal question.

Akira saw Kencho complimenting Maki on her fingernails and Soran explaining to Reika the alcohol-free environment in the Muslim community.

Akira (angrily taking a bottle of tequila): I rather die than let an opportunity pass me! I worked three years at an exploitative corporation! I got more spirit than anyone! Now I will chug this tequila down!

Kencho: That's my boy!

Akira went into the bathroom to vomit into the toilet.

Akira: Must've chugged too much.

Yukari: Are you alright?

There was another urinal Kencho went in. There were two Israeli settlers.

Settler A (in Hebrew): [Did you hear about the Pali that killed the Shoter?]

Settler B: [You mean Soran?]

Settler A: [Yeah. The Nitzav is offering a 15,000 shekel reward for his capture.]

Kencho (slapping the settler in the buttock): You "dicks" come here often? Get it?

Settler A: Dude, seriously?

Kencho (whistling): I'm gonna sing the pee-pee song. Hadn't drained the ol lizard since my stay at hotel.

Settler A: Hey! Don't talk while I'm peeing!

Kencho: That water's real deep.

Settler A: Dammit! Not the shoes!

Kencho: Hey, buddy, wanna give me a hand with this?

Settler A: Oh god. Not cool, man. Really?

Kencho: Not one to judge, why don't your drapes match the carpet?

Settler A: Dude! Don't look! Trying to go here.

Kencho: Is it hot in here, or is it just me? (Singingly) It's gettin' hot in here, so take off all your clothes!

Settler A: Oh god, really?

Kencho: WOW, that is a whole lotta piss.

Settler B: Yeah.

Kencho: Okay, I get it! Never break the guy code again! (Knocks the settlers unconscious)

Kencho found an M16 on one of the settlers. Maki was outside the bathroom waiting for him.

Maki: What happened in there?

Kencho: Soren is gonna love this.

Reika continued with her time with Soran.

Reika: Is it true women have participated in the protests against the Israelis who were bulldozing the olive fields?

Soran (noticing a man freaking out): What's wrong with him?

Reika: Oh no…he's been bugged!

That was when the police came appeared. This woke up Kencho and Maki from their nap at the mattress section.

Kencho: That noise. It came from downstairs.

Maki: What noise?

Kenchi: Sounded Hebrew. Gotta be the fuzz.

Maki: Who cares? We're safe up here.

Akira finally relieved himself of his vomiting.

Akira: Much better.

Yukari: That's wonderful.

Akira: What got you so concerned about me?

Yukari: You did go overboard. Seeing me worried. And yes, I do have a boyfriend.

Kencho and Maki quietly snuck to the snack section seeing Reika and the man were arrested. They rushed to the rug section and found Soran bleeding from a gun wound.

Kencho: Soran! What happened?

Soran: Those bastards. They took Reika.

Kencho rushed to the first aid section to apply Soran's wound. Maki was so drunk, she was caught by the police as well.

Kencho: We gotta find Akira and Yukari. (Tosses an M16 to Soran)

Akira and Yukari spent their moment at the stairway.

Yukari: Is it true you worked at an exploitative company for three years? This is my third year in the air service. When we got mixed up with the police, they confiscated our phones.

Akira: That's horrible. Sounds like what Soran spoke of. I feel I've made a mistake obsessing over my job. Aside from being committed, there was another girl I fell in love with. She was arrested under the occupation of collaborating with the Hamas. Soran preached about fighting Israeli Apartheid saying Netanyahu is becoming like Hitler. It was his dream to free Palestine from Israeli occupation. Me? I found freedom in quitting my job. Was it not your dream to be a flight attendant? If it is, who cares what an angry old guy thinks.

Yukari: Well…

Before Yukari could answer, the police appeared.

Amalya: Stay where you are.

Akira: What is this? We hadn't done anything!

Yukari: It's fine.

Akira: After what we've talked about?

Yukari: When I was rubbing your back, I remembered my first flight as a kid. I was so airsick. But the flight attendant rubbed my back. That made me so happy, I wanted to be like her. That was my dream. I really did love my job.

Akira: That's wonderful. I hope to find a dream job of my own!

Amalya: Alright, that's enough. (Arrests Yukari)

Akira ran off to find Kencho and Soran at the TV section. Kencho found a widescreen TV. Despite the wound, Soran managed to ride his bike while the boys carried the widescreen.

Kencho: It's sad those flight attendants got nabbed by the police. I'm just glad we've made it in one peace.

Akira crossed out "Wine and Dine with Flight Attendants"