Israeli planes can't re-fuel in Europe...
This really hurts Israel.
A number of European countries are refusing to allow Israeli planes carrying arms from America to stop over in their airports to refuel, an Israeli union head has claimed.
Itai Regev, head of the El Al Israel Airlines pilots union, said the decisions came from countries considered friendly to Israel, including Italy, Britain and Germany.
The union chief wrote a letter of complaint to Israeli prime minister Ehud Olmert, as well as the finance, tourism and foreign ministries.
Blaming “political reasons” for the decisions, Regev said: "As a result, cargo planes are taking off from the U.S. with much lighter weight, and are reaching Israel with significantly fewer munitions than needed."
El Al’s 747 cargo planes are often used by the Israeli army to transport military supplies to Israel. It has been reported that these new policies mean that because the planes can not refuel in Europe they are forced to carry around half of the 90-tonne capacity.
Regev described this as “a substantial blow to state defence."
posted by GayandRight @ 6:34 PM
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The Eurabians are doing everything in their power to support Iran's nuclear weapons program, including stalling for time with sham 'negotiations'. So of course the Eurabians will try to curtail their enemies ability to defend themselves...
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