Tel Aviv – Airlines Cancel Pro-Palestinian Activists’ Flights to Israel

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    An Israeli Security guard rides an escalator at the arrival terminal in Ben Gurion Air Port in Tel Aviv, Saturday, April 14, 2012. A coordinator of a mass fly-in of pro-Palestinian activists into Israel's main airport say airlines have canceled flights for at least 100 people. (AP Photo/Dan Balilty)Tel Aviv – A coordinator of a mass fly-in of pro-Palestinian activists into Israel’s main airport say airlines have canceled flights for at least 100 people.

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    Amira Musallam said Saturday that activists notified her via email that Lufthansa, EasyJet and Air France canceled the flight reservations of some suspected activists.

    Musallam says she still expects hundreds to arrive, beginning Saturday evening and continuing through Sunday.

    The “Welcome to Palestine” project seeks to raise attention to how Israel controls access into Palestinian areas. Unless travelers give false information about their intention to visit such places, they risk being detained and questioned, sometimes for hours.

    Israel sees the move as a provocation and is vowing to deport the activists.


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    BubbyB
    BubbyB
    11 years ago

    B”H, the Israeli government is exhibiting some good common sense. It’s about time the US government followed suit and did not allow suspected terrorists or suspicious criminals into this country – It hurts when we think of the quotas and restrictions placed on Jews running for their lives, seeking entry to this country during World War II, and denied entry, when they were no threat to the country, and today terrorists are allowed in and using our country and draining our resources.