There's the flight path, coming in off the Med.
Posted on 07/22/2014 10:07:26 AM PDT by C19fan
The Federal Aviation Administration is telling U.S. airlines they are prohibited from flying to the Tel Aviv airport in Israel after a Hamas rocket exploded nearby.
The FAA said in a statement that the ban on flights is for 24 hours beginning at 12:15 p.m. EST on Tuesday.
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Wondering if have intel that Hamas has some type of SAM
(Surface air missile) - suspect have some shoulder fires
SA7/SA14/SA18 missiles
Possible have something longer range capab;e of hitting planes
from Gaza
US, UN pushing hard for immediate cease-fire in Gaza [Israel]
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/3183454/posts
http://www.jpost.com/Operation-Protective-Edge/US-UN-pushing-hard-for-immediate-cease-fire-368386
“If Hamas really wants a cease-fire, I am sure that we can get to that, but they don’t want one,” Netanyahu tells Sky News Arabic; Arab TV reports say humanitarian cease-fire in Gaza imminent.
Prime Minister Binyamin Netanyahu, in an interview with Sky News Arabic, pointed out that Israel accepted an Egyptian proposal for a ceasefire last week. That proposal called for an immediate end to the violence, followed 48 hours later by negotiations regarding a more lasting agreement. Part of the proposal called for Palestinian Authority security officers, rather than Hamas men, to man the border crossing with Rafah.
In addition to that proposal, Israel – Netanyahu said – also accepted shorter “humanitarian” cease-fires brokered over the last few days first by the UN, and then by the Red Cross. In each case, he said, Hamas violated the cease-fire.
“If Hamas really wants a cease-fire, I am sure that we can get to that,” he said. “But they don’t want one.”
One government official said that while Israel was ready for a cease fire, “Hamas cannot come out of a ceasefire looking like a victor. Israel would be skeptical of any proposal that could be seen as a victory for Hamas.”
UN’s Ban arrives, says no country would allow rockets to rain down on its cities [Israel and Hamas]
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/3183547/posts
No country would accept rockets raining down on its civilians, and all countries and parties have an international obligation to protect civilians, UN Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon said in Tel Aviv on Tuesday.
Ban, who arrived in Israel as part of his effort – together with US Secretary of State John Kerry – to broker a cease-fire, said at a press conference with Prime Minister Binyamin Netanyahu that the UN position was clear: “We condemn strongly the rocket attacks, and these must stop immediately.”
Furthermore, he said, “we condemn the use of civilian sites, schools, hospitals and other civilian facilities for military purposes.”
Ban did not say anything during his brief comments to the press about the status of efforts to forge a cease-fire.
If a civilian airliner were to be shot down by a missile from Gaza (can’t hide the trajectory these days), Israel would announce to the world “We told you so!” and then the gates of Hell would open on Hamas.
There's the flight path, coming in off the Med.
The airlines, at least SOME OF THEM had already announced they were suspending flights into Tel Aviv. THEN the federal bureaucrats announced their unnecessary edict. We do not need a federal government telling companies what to do....the business exists to make a PROFIT. The men who run those businesses determined....ALL WITHOUT OBAMA'S HELP that flights should be suspended.
The FAA is merely interfering with normal market forces and should butt out.
Funny they never issued such a warning for Ukraine
The news just said there was a flight over the Mediterranean on its way to Tel Aviv had to redirect to Paris.
So, the answer is: make other plans.
So in effect Hamas is now flight control in and out of Israel.
Good question. Insurance might, but airlines might have gotten off the hook since the FAA is the one who “forced” them. Had they done it on their own they would probably have to pay out, but you can’t fight Uncle Sam! I bet airlines might have even asked FAA to cover for them. Even though I believe FAA acted on behalf of this admin to put pressure on Israel. The irony is, as Mark Levin pointed out, if Palestinian rockets can halt the Israeli airport it gives Israel all the more reason to never fully surrender the West Bank since all commercial flights fly over West Bank to land in Israel. They could never let the West Bank get militarized and hold the country hostage
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