{"id":880,"date":"2010-01-18T21:06:45","date_gmt":"2010-01-18T19:06:45","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.ofcourseimright.com\/?p=880"},"modified":"2010-01-18T21:06:45","modified_gmt":"2010-01-18T19:06:45","slug":"can-america-use-israels-security-model","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ofcourseimright.com\/?p=880","title":{"rendered":"Can America use Israel’s Security model?"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"\"So now I’ve ranted about just how awful the TSA is.\u00a0 A friend says that we should throw them away and start doing airport security the way the Israelis do it.\u00a0 CNN recently carried an interview<\/a> with Isaac Yeffet, the former chief of security for El Al<\/a>.\u00a0 In the interview, Mr. Yeffet points out any number of failures, and he is particularly damning when it comes to Richard Reid, the Shoe Bomber, because our security system missed many warning signs that Mr. Reid wasn’t planning to come home, and he wasn’t planning to stay in America.\u00a0 In those circumstances, either you’re having a very short visit, or you don’t plan on landing.\u00a0 He goes on to point out how making people take off their shoes is \u201ca patch on top of a patch.\u201d\u00a0 He’s 100% right<\/strong>.\u00a0 Mr. Yeffet goes on to describe his view of strong security, the key message simply being: you have to have smart and observant people scrutinizing travelers.\u00a0 Of course this model could work in America, but would we get the exact same results?<\/p>\n

Possibly, but the length of the interviews will vary.\u00a0 For one, while Mr. Yeffet claims that they can easily determine a \u201cbona fide\u201d in a few minutes, the truth is that there is a clearer profile of what such a person is in Israel. Israel is a small country.\u00a0 They don’t need to profile Arabs or other muslims or anyone else, because they have profiled the small number of types of legitimate travelers.\u00a0 America is far more diverse, and hence far more difficult to determine who is a legitimate traveler.<\/p>\n

As an example, the last time I traveled on El Al, I was asked point blank why I was going to Israel, and if I am Jewish.\u00a0 I was going on business, I am Jewish, and I could name my temple.\u00a0 I think I produced a business card.\u00a0 That was the end of my interview.\u00a0 I can also say it wasn’t so easy for others who spent quite a bit more time being interviewed.<\/p>\n

What do you think?<\/p>\n

And so in answer to my friend, yes.\u00a0 I agree with should disband the TSA and start again, with properly trained professionals who are able to better manage threats.\u00a0 But I do not believe that simply applying Israel’s approach will yield perfect results.\u00a0 The law of numbers is playing against us.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

So now I’ve ranted about just how awful the TSA is.\u00a0 A friend says that we should throw them away and start doing airport security the way the Israelis do it.\u00a0 CNN recently carried an interview with Isaac Yeffet, the former chief of security for El Al.\u00a0 In the interview, Mr. Yeffet points out any … Continue reading “Can America use Israel’s Security model?”<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":172,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[30,4,9],"tags":[303,304,137],"class_list":["post-880","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-humanity","category-politics","category-security","tag-airport-security","tag-israel","tag-tsa"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/ofcourseimright.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/880","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/ofcourseimright.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/ofcourseimright.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ofcourseimright.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/172"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ofcourseimright.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=880"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/ofcourseimright.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/880\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":882,"href":"https:\/\/ofcourseimright.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/880\/revisions\/882"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/ofcourseimright.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=880"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ofcourseimright.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=880"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ofcourseimright.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=880"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}