FAA Extends Travel Ban to Israel for Another 24 Hours

[BeyondGeography]

Source: ABC News

The FAA announced today that they have not lifted their ban against travel to or from Tel Aviv's airport and will prohibit travel to the country for an additional 24 hours.

"The agency is working closely with the Government of Israel to review the significant new information they have provided and determine whether potential risks to U.S. civil aviation are mitigated so the agency can resolve concerns as quickly as possible," the FAA said in a statement.

This comes a day after they barred all American air carriers from flying to or from Ben Gurion International Airport in Tel Aviv following a rocket attack within a mile of the airport.

...The list of airlines that chose to follow the American air agency's guidelines extended past the U.S., with Air Canada, Lufthansa, German Wings and Air France canceling their scheduled flights in addition to US Airways, Delta and United.

British Airways and Russian carrier Rossiya continued their flights to Ben Gurion, as did Israeli's commercial airline El Al, whose planes have their own missile detection programs.


Read more: http://abcnews.go.com/International/faa-extends-travel-ban-israel-24-hours/story?id=24680679

[ChairmanAgnostic]

1. Yo, Bebe.

Are you getting our message?

Sincerely,

that muslin kenyan who you campaigned against.

[BumRushDaShow]

3. ^^^ THIS ^^^

is EXACTLY what it is.



As I mentioned before on your same observation in another thread, this was what immediately came to mind when I saw the NYT breaking news banner indicating the FAA announcement.

To add - Hes about to cross his own line with us.

[leftynyc]

6. I would really hate

to think the President is that petty a person.

[ChairmanAgnostic]

10. yeah, but if there was a worthy target, I think Bebe would top that list.

[BumRushDaShow]

13. It's not a matter of pettiness

it's a tool in the toolbox when an opportunity presents itself. Stick vs carrot. I expect a big juicy carrot is coming soon.

There's been a boatload of disrespect hurled at the President from both Putin and Netanyahu and the spiteful actions that both have promulgated have backfired against them, sadly in the form of mass losses of innocent lives. It's the rough and tumble of politics - and in this case, at the geopolitical level.

[leftynyc]

14. The way it was described in the post

I responded to to was pure pettiness and nothing else. I would hope our President is head and shoulders above that kind of childishness.

[ChairmanAgnostic]

16. boy, are you creative.

That is amazing how you see things that are not there.

You should write more.

[leftynyc]

25. Don't get nasty with me

because you got caught making light of a very serious situation and used it to pretend some kind of childish game of nyah, nyah. It's there for everyone to see.

[Cha]

19. Exactly, BRDS. Someone at the Jerusalem Post described it as an act of Aggression

against Israel. I think it's an act of "Cut the vicious shit against Gaza, Netanyahu."

[question everything]

28. It was not the President. It was Cruz who started the rumors

Nice to know that there are many here who swallow McCarty's, er, Cruz lies without giving him a second though.

[question everything]

8. So you put yourself in the same class as the Russians who shot down

a passenger plan.

Something to be proud about.

No, Hamas has not done it yet but obviously someone thinks that they will and DUers apparently, applaud this.

[ChairmanAgnostic]

9. I am sorry, but I have no clue what point you are trying to make.

What is your point? What are you trying to say? Can you use plain english in the process? Your analogy about Ukraine and a sophisticated Russian antiaircraft missile is simply inane and non-sensical.

What is even more laughable is that Russia, Syria, or Iran could sneak in a surrounded territory like Gaza, ringed by IDF troops, planes, tanks, and sensors, and set up something like a SAM 17. That is insane.

[question everything]

17. OK, s-l-o-w-l-y

The FAA bans flight to Israel because it fears that a Hamas missile may hit a Delta airlines jet the way the Ukrainians downed a Malaysian jet last week.

Clear, so far?

DUers cheer this decision expecting that, yes, Hamas may be able to do so. You see it as a message to Israel, supporting the FAA decision why? Because you think that Hamas can do this?

Perhaps even hoping for Hamas to do so? Now this really will send a message to Israel, right?

This is sick!

Oh, and about Iranians sneaking missiles to Gaza? Here is a hint: Egypt, Morsi and the Muslim Brotherhood.

If this, too, is incomprehensible to you, even after googling, come back and I will explain. Again, s-l-o-w-l-y.

[ChairmanAgnostic]

22. Wow. Talk about cognitive dissonance.

While on the surface, the FAA's decision a can be "splained" away by the danger from Hamas, the real signal has nothing to do with that. It is the US telling Bebe, "Stop this shit, already"

[question everything]

23. And you know this, how?

Any idea how much the U.S. is dependent on Israel? Yes, for military cooperation? For purchasing American made products (assuming there still are)?

Hillary better make sure that she understand this, if we want to keep the White House in 2016.

[ChairmanAgnostic]

24. I understand that you are hampered by willful ignorance of basic facts.

But do you have to rejoice in your lack of logic, understanding and ability to apply a series of events into a cohesive whole? Go ahead, and rejoice. But, dammmm. I would hate to be you.

[question everything]

26. Oh yeah. Cruz spread the idea that this came from the adminstration

Glad that you and Cruz are on the same wave.

[ChairmanAgnostic]

27. Thanks

If you have no rational argument, you aim for insults. Figures.

[harun]

15. GOBAMA!

[question everything]

29. Now why would you cheeer Obama?

Cruz, on Fox, claimed that the President was behind this and many here are so ready to follow this slimeball's lies.

[harun]

30. Hey, Obama throws us about one Progressive bone a year

I'm cheering when I get mine.

[Comrade Grumpy]

2. Israel gets pinched a bit.

[n2doc]

4. Hamas Claims Suspended Flights to Israel as a 'Great Victory'

"The success of Hamas in closing Israeli airspace is a great victory for the resistance, and is the crown of Israel's failure," Hamas spokesman Sami Abu Zuhri said in a statement.

http://www.israelnationalnews.com/News/News.aspx/183259

[groundloop]

5. Headline is a bit misleading, actually it's a ban on U.S. airline flights

If someone wanted to go in on a private jet or some other mode of transportation the FAA can't do anything about that.

[leftynyc]

7. It also only effects US airlines

Foreign based airlines are free to do what they want (as El Al and Michael Bloomberg proved today).

[Purveyor]

11. Good. Hope it lasts for a good while.

[question everything]

18. Of course you do

Israel, however, will survive and then you can cry again.

[alsame]

12. Israeli right wing nut jobs see it as

an 'act of aggression'.

The JE Dyer piece she refers to is chock full of right wing crazy and I won't post a link here, but she refers to the 'FAA-Hamas ban'

[IMG][/IMG]

[Cha]

20. Oh yeah, I was just mentioning that upthread.. you've got the tweets and all.. thanks alsame.

[alsame]

21. These people are as

crazy as our teabaggers, aren't they?