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Source: http://www.jpost.com/Israel-News/Analysis-What-Europe-has-to-learn-from-Israel-on-security-448885?
What Europe Has to Learn from Israel on Security
(Jerusalem Post) Yossi Melman - There are 11 visible security and inspection points at Ben-Gurion Airport - from a roadblock at the airport entrance to the airplane gates. For decades, security experts from international airlines, police forces and security agencies have come here to learn Israeli know-how and doctrines. Unfortunately, this happens only after spectacular terrorist attacks, such as the 1988 Pan Am bombing and 9/11. It took Western democracies a while to reach the conclusion that human life is no less important than human rights. According to media reports, Belgian authorities had advance warning about an "imminent terror attack." Yet neither the country's police nor its security forces increased their presence in the streets or deployed checkpoints at the entrances to the airport.