Israel Transportation Minister: Cancellation of Flights to Israel Gives a ‘Prize to Terror’
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Israel’s Transportation Minister Yisrael Katz said on Tuesday that the just announced cancellation of European and U.S. flights to Israel handed a victory to terrorism.
“There is no reason for the American companies to stop their flight and give a prize to terror,” Katz said, according to Jerusalem Post correspondent Niv Elis.
On Tuesday, four major U.S. airline carriers announced their decision to cancel flights heading to Israel indefinitely, one specifically citing the danger of Gaza rocket attacks near Israel’s Ben Gurion airport.
Shortly after the airlines announced their decision, the Federal Aviation Administration (FAA) said it told all U.S. airlines that flights to the airport are prohibited for 24 hours, according to The Associated Press. German carrier Lufthansa nixed all flights to and from Tel Aviv for the next two days, according to an ABC News correspondent, and Air France also suspended its flights to Israel.
U.S. flight ban could be Hamas’ biggest success in latest clash with Israel
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Several airlines already had suspended operations or diverted flights.
The ban comes less than a week after a Malaysia Airlines Boeing 777 was shot down over Ukraine. For Hamas, it could be the biggest break the Islamist group has had since the most recent fighting started — potentially increasing Israeli’s physical and psychological isolation from the rest of the world. The airport handles about 14 million travelers a year.
Smells like Obama.
:-) El Al is the best..more expensive but worth it..you will never get on a safer airline than El Al
Dang man. I love Israel. The only sane country right now.
If you ever notice an El Al jet parked at any U.S. airport, you might notice they have around-the-clock armed security in place.
El Al is safer because, among other defensive measures, they have missile defense systems on their aircraft.
And we will too, sometime after the first American airliner is shot down.
Love it.
There is a difference between the leader of Israel and the leaders of the US and Europe.
Strong, fearless, determined versus the 1930’s whimps, whusses, cowards, yellow-bellies, spineless jellyfish.
Who would you want to be our leader today, Netanyahu or Obama/Kerry/Hagel, Merkel, Hollande?, etc.?
I will fly El Al when I go, I have been wanting to go
Aww. Don’t they understand? The only reason there are rockets landing near Ben Gurion is because the stubborn Jooos! won’t give back the entire West Bank for piece. If only they did, then the Mujaahidoon would be able to lob mortar shells at the airport from Itamar, thereby making funds available to feed poor hungry Palis via Hamas./s
If I were going to Israel, I would ;-).
Israel and El Al get some things right. They have a history of experience that the US didn’t have up to 9/11. It’s a shame that the US got all politically correct and didn’t follow Israel’s lead after 9/11. We basically waste million upon millions of dollars on fake security while making it more difficult for honest, law abiding Americans to travel. It’s the nanny state at its worst.
Rocket lands ‘near’ an airport in Israel, ALL FLIGHTS MUST BE CANCELED!
Two military planes shot down in Eastern Ukraine, no problems at all
I love El Al (Hebrew for God’s Airline?)
I Love Israel.
their jets have anti-missile countermeasures.
If the leaders of the U.S. and European countries consider Hamas evil enough to target innocent people on airliners, why don’t they support Israel in its effort to destroy the evil Hamas?
If Israel doesn’t win the current war, Hamas will be empowered to expand its evil ways. How much harder would it be for Hamas to send a rocket into a plane landing in New York or Paris than one landing in Israel? In fact, it would be easier in other countries, since Ben Gurion Airport is protected with advanced technology such as the Iron Dome.
If a group of ragtag separatists in Eastern Ukraine can blow up a commercial airliner with 298 people aboard, why can’t a group of ragtag Hamas terrorists do the same in any country in the world they want to? Certainly, if thousands of illegal immigrants can cross our borders undetected, so can terrorists carrying missile launchers to set up near American airports.
Yet the world is howling that the Israelis are the bad guys when the Israelis are the only guys good enough to fight against terrorists so they won’t be able to expand their operations and end up blowing airliners out of the sky at an airport near you.