As more details emerge in the international media about the Omani co-pilot who tried Wednesday to crash the flydubai plane headed for Israel, the dimensions of a hair-raising failure that could have ended in disaster are becoming clearer. The failures in identifying the security threat lie with the governments of the relevant Persian Gulf states and the carriers there that employed him. But the final stage in the screening process was supposed to be Israeli, and here the state failed completely (while its citizens excelled, once again).
