An Article That Will Forever Change Your View of Airport Security

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By Barry Rubin

This is an awesome article about Israel's security methods and the new technologies being developed. If you think that airport security in Europe and North America is inefficient and unnecessarily intrusive now, after you read this article you will know that for sure. Basically the new technologies are quick, accurate, and don't require profiling in the sense that is barred by Political Correctness. The tests focus on identifying individuals likely to be terrorists rather than confiscating their shampoo and toothpaste, taking x-ray photographs, or requiring objectionable body searches.

Barry Rubin is director of the Global Research in International Affairs (GLORIA) Center and editor of the Middle East Review of International Affairs (MERIA) Journal. His latest books are The Israel-Arab Reader (seventh edition), The Long War for Freedom: The Arab Struggle for Democracy in the Middle East (Wiley), and The Truth About Syria (Palgrave-Macmillan). The website of the GLORIA Center is at http://www.gloria-center.org and of his blog, Rubin Reports, http://www.rubinreports.blogspot.com.