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While airlines have had their hands tied in trying to stop possible terrorists because of accusations of racism against Arabs and Muslims they are now discriminating against people whose nationality terrorists may go after-call in the civil libertarians!lefties protest!
Report: Pilot Wouldn't Fly Diplomat
By THE ASSOCIATED PRESS
Filed at 6:30 a.m. ET
CINCINNATI (AP) -- A pilot for a Delta Air Lines subsidiary would not fly Israeli Deputy Foreign Minister Michael Melchior from Cincinnati to Toronto because the pilot thought Melchior posed a security risk, an Israeli radio station reported Sunday.
Melchior, who was being escorted by State Department officials, told Israel Radio that he waited on the plane Friday for more than an hour before the pilot evacuated it, saying there was a security risk.
When Melchior disembarked, he said he was told he was not allowed to get back on the plane.
``The security officials and the company all put pressure on him, and there were negotiations,'' Melchior told the station. ``But the pilot is sovereign on his aircraft, and he is empowered to make such a decision, and he did it in spite of all the pressure from the company and security officials.''
He said he flew out on another Delta plane about a half-hour later. He has since returned to Israel.
The Israeli embassy in Washington had taken the matter up with the State Department, Melchior said.
This is the third time an Israeli official has been pulled from a flight because of a pilot's sense of a security risk, the radio station reported. The others reportedly were Alon Pinkas, the Israeli consul general in New York, and a bodyguard of Israeli Foreign Minister Shimon Peres.
``This singling out of Israeli diplomats ... and removing them from a plane in such a manner, and the very fact that we are Israelis (is deemed) to pose a security risk, is intolerable,'' Melchior said.
Atlanta-based Delta, which has a hub in Cincinnati, is the nation's third-biggest carrier. A message seeking comment was left early Sunday morning at the Delta corporate communications office.
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I hope they become alert to the fascist politics of the US government and stop voting for the two parties that always support Israel, the Democrats and Republicans. At the top of everyone's litmus test list of issues for candidates must be opposing any US funding or verbal support for Israel. That automatically eliminates from consideration all Democrats and all Republicans. If you don't like the candidates for a given position, skip that position or run for office yourself.
Second, the pilot's descion was not in support of the Palestinians as you delusionally took it as. there was noa bold political statement. He was trying to stop Muslim fanatics from targetting the plane by removing someone who was more likely than most to be there target. This makes as much sense as kicking African-Americans off planes if several incidences occur where the KKK blows up planes to terrorize them. Or little ol' ladies- if Al Queda says they are going to go after little old blue hair ladies do we inhibit there ability to go about their lives or do we have a backbone and go after those who are most likely to be in AL-QUeda- and "profile" Saudis, Egyptians, Pakistanis. There is nothing wront with this, right TC, after all they all come from reactionary facist governments too, right?
As to the Reichstag Fire of September 11, 2001 in New York & Washington, that was the CIA's Operation Northwoods realized, carried out by the US military, the CIA, and as their junior helper, Israel. The evidence is massive. Its purpose was, like the Reichstag Fire of the Nazis who are much adored by George War Bush and all his friends, to perpetrate fascism and smash labor at home while promoting blood for oil wars to make the rich richer.
To every stinking Zionist reading this: The world knows the history of collaboration of the Zionists with European imperialism, the Nazis, Mussolini and now US imperialism. From 1947 to today, the Zionists are guilty of not only collaboration with fascists to enrich their own stinking little selves, and during the Holocaust, save their own miserable worthless selves, they are guilty of genocide of Arabs and theft of Arab lands, using every means of terror possible, including suicide bombings. Yes, there were Jewish suicide bombers. So, all you stinking Zionists, stick your Nazi heads up your asses and leave them there. Your whole stinking racket is over. The world now sees you what you are: A gang of murderous thugs doing the bidding of oil imperialism to enrich yourselves. Your racket has ended, stinking parasites. Go work for a living for a change. shit heads. I am one of those Jews Without Money, the title of the classic novel by Michael Gold. We have no use for stinking Zionist shitheads. The class struggle is primary.
I disagree with Zionism as it is a racist ideology. Anyone promoting a state based on race is a racist. The modern world does not accept any longer that governments should represent any particular ethnicity more favourably than others. We learned this in WW2. The UN should establish refugees from around the world, places like Asia, Africa, Central America, into Israel to prevent the establishment of either a Jewish or Arabic racist state in the region. In a 'melting pot' situation it is more difficult for a racist state to proliferate. Thus conflict becomes irrelevant and peace is promoted.
Israel is not based on ethnicity, you ignoramus, it is based or religion, you too can convert to Judaism and be accepted as an Israeli citizen.
What about the Vatican?
I didn't say that Israel should exist because of the Torah, I’m agnostic anyhow. Israel should exist as a safe haven for the Jewish people.
but now i bring up NT and you suddenly turn around and say that Israel is in fact a racial state. Which is it? Please make up your mind.
Something similar happened back in December to an Arab-American Secret Service agent, prompting shrieks of outrage from the Council on American Islamic Relations and others. The sound you hear now is silence.
http://www.jpost.com/servlet/Satellite?pagename=JPost/A/JPArticle/ShowFull&cid=1028814654019
http://abcnews.go.com/wire/US/ap20020812_719.html
I didn't say it is a racial state, and i didn't say it is based on the Torah. It is based on the fact that Jewdaism started in the ancient land of Israel, and the Jews are allowed to return to their homeland. It is based on history. Israel's immigration laws are a totally different matter.
Israel is "believed to sponsor terrorism"? by whom? besides Arabs and clueless radical left activists.
So what is the background for the Zionist state? Zionists deliberately confuse this question because it has no legitimate background. It is a racial state; one for Semites. To claim some right of return to a 2000 year old homeland without religious authority is like saying that Irish Celts should be allowed to own all of northern and central Europe since they lived there 2000 years ago. It is foolishness. It is the Zionist lie. Zionists even assassinated leading proponents of a mixed and secular Jewish/Palestinian state.
Support Neturei Karta in their struggle against the Zionist collaborators.
http://www.netureikarta.org/
http://www.jewsnotzionists.org/
try telling that to Daniel Pearl. Or the Jews in Iran who are routinely framed for being spies for Israel and tortured/imprisoned. No Jew (or Hindu or atheist)can live in safety in Muslim countries although the "evil" west gives them the religious freedom and freedom from percecution no "infidel" is intitled to there.
Also Europe has ceased being a safe have for Jews with the large number of Muslim immigrants who committ hate crimes way out of proportion to their population. The majority of hate crimes against Jews in Europe are committed by Muslim immigrants. Perhaps some bleeding heart lefty can go over there and teach them that racial profiling is bbaaaad. Why shouldn't Europeans being "xenophobic" if immigrants are teaching their children to be prejudice against those of other cultures, relgions, etc?
It is getting increasingly difficult to take you seriously, X2. Read a book will you? The Jewish people were expelled by G-d??? ;-)
What's the problem with that? No borders, dude.
No problem at all. But ruling a place is vastly different than just moving there. And if the Israelis are such virtuous supporters of no borders why do they erect fences to contain Palesitinian areas??