Saudi Arabia shamelessly refused Israel’s request for an emergency rescue flight to bring Israeli passengers home, despite proposals from El Al and the Israeli Air Force. Officials even considered sending an unmarked aircraft, but Riyadh said no, i24NEWS reports.
The request was for an emergency flight to return passengers safely, not an attempt to force normalization. The Israelis ultimately returned on a separate FlyDubai flight. A source close to the Saudi royal court said Israel must understand that “normalization cannot be forced.”
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We all know who the Saudis are but we should at least be grateful they didn’t have to land in Iraq or some other uncivilized Terror Hot Zone
Wow. Maybe Trump has some good explanation? Emergency situation is not “normalization”. Obviously “normalization” is not quite possible.
The Saudis are rotten apples. Let them fry all their “French” Fries in their plentiful oil supply! If only Trump can drop our need for their oil. Let them have swimming pools of oil and fry their French Fries in it. We Americans don’t need their oil. We have Alaskan oil and now we’ll have Venezuelan oil. Let them drink their oil.
Why is that “shameless” and why do you reject their characterization of forcing normalization?
The Saudis did not keep the Israelis in their country; they allowed FlyDubai – the same airline that flew them in – to fly them out from their country and through their airspace, back to their original destination, the Zionist paradise. That seems reasonable from a Saudi perspective – and from that of any other nation that has no diplomatic ties with the Zionists, for that matter.
Why not instead be grateful that the Saudis didn’t make them take a multi-hour long bus to Jordan or elsewhere and then let them fly from there?
The total lack of anava and hachnaah that Jews are supposed to have in galus is understandable when coming from Zionist idolaters – but not from a site that claims for itself the lofty title “Yeshiva World”.