His point is that the broad argument that damaging all of society a little is OK falls down when generalized. And, on top of that, even this intrusive, pervasive, broadly damaging surveillance doesn't actually prevent what it claims to prevent.

There is a problem with trying to analogize from the Israeli point of view. Almost no place on Earth is enough like Israel, and is in a sufficiently similar condition, for those analogies to work. As the TSA's behavioral screening fiasco shows, it is also, for the same reasons, very difficult to transplant Israeli practices in security.