Tuesday, July 22, 2014

An unarmed Palestinian man received a sentence today by an Israeli sniper.

Because he was Palestinian he was sentenced to death. No other reason. 

July 22, 2014
By Chris Hughes, Martin Bagot

A young Palestinian (click here) has allegedly been killed by an Israeli sniper as he searched through rubble for his family after heavy shelling.


The man had been rescuing casualties and was hunting for his own relatives when he was shot twice in Gaza City, according to a TV crew from activists the pro-Palestine International Solidarity Movement.
Member Muhammad Abdellah said: “Israeli soldier sniper hit him in his hip, so he laid down. And I started to ask him ‘can you move?’ But he said ‘no, I cannot move, my blood is going everywhere’.’’
Moments later, with the activists unable to reach him for fear of being shot themselves, the man was seen taking a second bullet.
Mr Abdellah said: “I guess it was in his heart or almost there, because he was dying in front of our eyes.”
The unverified footage was taken in the Shijaiyah neighbourhood which Israel claims has been the source of rocket attacks.
The deadliest conflict in five years between Israel and the Palestinians has now killed more than 600 Palestinians, many of them civilians, including 120 children....
Who needs it? If El Al wants to take enemy fire, more power to 'em.

July 22, 2014
By Patrick McCarron, Stephen Rex Brown

Major American airlines (click here) were banned Tuesday from flying to Israel for 24 hours after a Hamas rocket landed near Tel Aviv’s Ben Gurion Airport. 
The Federal Aviation Administration order that halts Delta, U.S. Airways and United Airlines flights into Israel’s main international airport went into effect at 12:15 p.m. 
“Due to the potentially hazardous situation created by the armed conflict in Israel and Gaza, all flight operations to/from Ben-Gurion International Airport by U.S. operators are prohibited until further advised,” the FAA said. 
The rocket landed about one mile from the airport.

November 29, 2002

Lod Air Force Base, Israel (Reuters) (click here)
Secret on-board defenses, not pure luck, may have saved an Israeli airliner from being shot down over Kenya by two missiles, intelligence and arms experts said Friday....

As for me? No, thank you.

January 20, 2014

By Stephen Trimble
Passengers on a possibly (click here) imminent flight by a particular El Al Boeing 737-800 – with registration 4X-EKA – may not realise it, but they will be flying onboard arguably the safest commercial aircraft in the skies.
That’s because in addition to the airworthiness criteria observed by all commercial aircraft, this particular 737-800 could be the first commercial aircraft protected by a directional infrared countermeasure (DIRCM) system in the El Al fleet. For the first time, a commercial aircraft will be both airworthy and missile-safe.
The Elbit Systems C-MUSIC pod was shown installed on 4X-EKA last June, but the DIRCM system still had not been activated in commercial service as of mid-December.
“We are very close,” says Mike Yanoov, director of business development and marketing for Elop, the division of Elbit producing DIRCM systems.
The first flight with a working C-MUSIC pod will not be announced for obvious reasons. “I’m sure the security will not allow it,” Yanoov says....

See, El Al is the one sure way anyone in Israel can come and go from within it's borders. I am sure they have taken great pains to be sure El Al fleet is quite safe.