200 pro-Palestinian activists stopped from entering IsraelBy JPOST.COM STAFF
08/07/2011
Paris activists refuse to leave terminal after airline blocks them from boarding flight; "flightilla" leader: "Charles de Gaulle Airport is under Israeli occupation"; police preparing for further arrivals at B-G airport.
Around 200 pro-Palestinian activists were denied entry to Israel or were prevented from boarding flights to the country as part of an "air flotilla," Israel Radio said on Friday.
Earlier Friday, fifty pro-Palestinian activists arrived at the Lufthansa terminal at Paris's Charles de Gaulle Airport hoping to board a flight to Israel, and then refused to leave the terminal after they were denied from boarding the plane, according to Israel Radio.
The German airline refused to let them board the flight to Israel via Frankfurt after the activits' names appeard on a blacklist submitted by the Interior Ministry. The list detailed the names of activists which may potentially attempt to cause provocations.
Olivia Zemour, leader of the EuroPalestine organization that is arranging the "air flotilla," said that the blacklist includes names of 347 activists.
"Charles de Gaulle Airport is under Israeli occupation. We are peaceful people and have no interest in causing disorder at Ben Gurion Airport," Zemour was quoted by Israel Radio as saying.
Another activist at Paris's airport said that the activists will remain there until Lufthansa agrees to give them a signed documnet saying the airline refused to let them board flights to Israel.
In Geneva, EasyJet also refused to let 30 acitivists on board a flight to Israel.
Overnight Thursday, two pro-Palestinian American activists were denied entry to Israel after they landed at Ben Gurion Airport from Athens.
The two told border officials that they had originally planned to take part in the Gaza sea flotilla, but due to delays, they opted to join the "air flotilla."
As a result, authorities refused to grant them entry and the two were forced to return to Greece.
Authorities had decreased the amount of forces operating at the airport overnight Thursday after being notified that the number of pro-Palestinian activists set to arrive in the flotilla was smaller than initially expected. However, security forces were again increased early Friday morning in preparation for further arrivals expected throughout the day.
The Interior Ministry had told foreign airlines they were required under Israeli law to remove “pro-Palestinian radicals” from flights bound for Israel.
The ministry sent the letter in advance of the anticipated “Flightilla,” in which about 700 pro-Palestinian activists, mostly from Europe, were expected to arrive at Ben-Gurion Airport on Friday on routine flights throughout the day.
Already on Thursday, Malev Hungarian Airlines barred around 20 activists from boarding a flight from Paris to Budapest on the first leg of their journey to Tel Aviv, according to French activists involved in the “Welcome to Palestine” event on Friday.
A letter from the Interior Ministry to the airlines provided to The Jerusalem Post by the activists said that “due to statements of pro-Palestinian radicals to arrive on commercial flights from abroad to disrupt the order and confront security forces at friction points, it was decided to refuse their entry in accordance with our authority according to the Law of Entry to Israel 1952... In light of the above-mentioned, you are required not to board them on your flights to Israel. Failure to comply with this directive would result in a delay on the flight and their return on the same flight.”
Tovah Lazaroff, Herb Keinon, and Yaakov Lappin contributed to this report.
http://www.jpost.com/DiplomacyAndPolitics/Article.aspx?id=228474
Friday, July 8, 2011
Another Attempt At Provocation Against Israel Stopped
It must be frustrating for the Jew-hating jihadists and leftists this summer. Plans to provoke Israel into a violent confrontation causing worldwide outrage against the Jewish state have failed to materialize. First the jihad flotilla fizzled thanks to the efforts of Greece and now attempts on the part of Israel-hating agitators from Europe to board planes flying into Ben Gurion airport have been thwarted. Israel not only has the right but the responsibility to keep out any foreigners who are only going there to cause trouble.
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We should remember the plight of the Turkey. All year round he feels honored to be treated so well by the Farmer. He is fed well and is nurtured. The turkey states to all that the farmer really loves him and certainly will always love him. (You see where this is going). As we approach thanksgiving day his treatment is especially good.His food portions are doubled and then tripled.
On Thanksgiving day the axe falls.
Israel is the turkey.
The farmer is America.
We ought not to be tricked into complacency. If America sees a benefit in axing Israel, it will surely do so. It happened on several occasions in the past and I am certain it can happen again. You know what, it is happening now as I write these deathless words.
It matters little who is in power, or what party controls the congress.
Obama is merely following in the footsteps of his predecessors.
Ideology does not count.
So long as Israel remains the largest recipient of America's largess, Israel will remain the TURKEY.
I'm tired of having to make the point over and over again that that money is provided to Israel on the condition that Israel buys American military equipment. So it is mutually beneficial. It is not a favor or simply a handout to Israel. Why does this always fall on deaf ears?
Frank
So If Israel does not wish to be the Turkey, why not just renounce any U.S. assitance and be proudly independant. You cannot have it every which way. Just walk away. Then you would be spared the task of repeating yourself endlessly.
Frank
So If Israel does not wish to be the Turkey, why not just renounce any U.S. assitance and be proudly independant. You cannot have it every which way. Just walk away. Then you would be spared the task of repeating yourself endlessly.
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