Amen a thousand times over to this article (read the whole thing):

While North America’s airports groan under the weight of another sea-change in security protocols, one word keeps popping out of the mouths of experts: Israelification.

That is, how can we make our airports more like Israel’s, which deal with far greater terror threat with far less inconvenience.

“It is mindboggling for us Israelis to look at what happens in North America, because we went through this 50 years ago,” said Rafi Sela, the president of AR Challenges, a global transportation security consultancy. He’s worked with the RCMP, the U.S. Navy Seals and airports around the world.

“Israelis, unlike Canadians and Americans, don’t take s— from anybody. When the security agency in Israel (the ISA) started to tighten security and we had to wait in line for — not for hours — but 30 or 40 minutes, all hell broke loose here. We said, ‘We’re not going to do this. You’re going to find a way that will take care of security without touching the efficiency of the airport.”

That, in a nutshell is “Israelification” – a system that protects life and limb without annoying you to death.

But no, of course we’ll never do anything so sane. Because we are a fragile, delicate people among whom tens of millions would be happy to shred our laws and constitution in the hopes of just a tiny improvement in security.

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  1. schu says:

    But it is not security that they are interested in but profits from the security system. Standard scanning and sky marshals would cover the rest. And please do not arm the pilots! They do not have the training or the temperment for law enforcement. Their job and training id to pilot the aircraft, not ingage in firefits with terrorists!

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