Israeli air security is easy on most, intrusive for a few

The Washington Post ^ | Nov. 27, 2010 | Janine Zacharia

[UniqueViews]

Israel has long held the reputation as home to the world's most stringent airport security procedures. But most passengers aren't frisked, there are no intimately revealing body-imaging scanners, and security experts dismiss as misguided the new, more intrusive American approach that requires pat-downs or highly detailed scans of every passenger.

"Taking the bottle of water from the 87-year-old woman at JFK, you will never find an explosive material that is coming from bin Laden," said Shlomo Harnoy, head of the Sdema Group, an Israeli security consultancy that advises airports abroad. "You are concentrating on the wrong thing."

[EagleUSA]

Israel cannot afford incompetence, and a government that does not care about its national security.

Maybe we could sell them the TSA? (satire)

[kbennkc]

Just let the airlines know there will be no more immunity for their negligence.

Invisible hand of the market will be better than a dirty TSA glove on my special purpose parts.

Common carriers should be held to the standard of insurers for the safe delivery of their cargo.

[Joyell]

We need to put the Israelis in charge of our airport security. They know what they’re doing.

[WoofDog123]

unfortunately israeli security is not scalable to the US, with thousands of flights a day. I think any number of major US airports have more flights a day than israeli does in months or longer.

[goldstategop]

For Israelis, it really comes down to whether saving lives is worth hurting the feelings of a handful of passengers. The answer is "yes." Hurt feelings will go away. A human life once lost can never be restored. On the whole profiling is about looking for a likely threat. And the few people questioned more intensively understand why its done. It saves time and you look for the right people rather than just mindlessly ban objects that might be used by terrorists once. The American approach is stupid, invasive and doesn't a catch a single terrorist.

[JerseyHighlander]

Israeli airport security is but a small cog in the very large machine of Israel’s national security apparatus that contains many systems of surveillance that would be considered unconstitutional in the United States.

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[AnalogReigns]

Just let the airlines know there will be no more immunity for their negligence.

You'd also though, want to give BLANKET immunity to airline's private security for lawsuits claiming discrimination. Especially when it comes to these Somali Muslims, I could see Al Sharpton, Jesse Jackson et al. having a field day claiming racial profiling....

[kbennkc]

You'd also though, want to give BLANKET immunity to airline's private security for lawsuits claiming discrimination.

Exactly. The fiction that the commerce clause is without limit must be curbed .