Lifting of the blockade?
Israel has said it will lift its air and sea blockade of Lebanon on Thursday, at 1800 Beirut time.
How kind. Three weeks after the ceasefire.
The blockade was ostensibly in place to ensure no more arms reach Hezbollah, and all flights coming into and out of Beirut International Airport had to seek Israeli permission to do so first. Only Middle East Airlines and Royal Jordanian, received permission from Israel to resume commercial flights, on condition they stopped at Amman. Why? Jordan (along with Egypt) has signed a peace agreement with Israel, and Jordanian and Israeli authorities and quasi-authorities (if you know what I mean) search the planes and passengers on the ground in Amman. A friend of mine flew to Istanbul from Beirut on Monday on Royal Jordanian and told me the seach in Amman took 5 hours.
Why? If the rationale for the searches is to stop weapons coming INTO Lebanon, why detain a passenger flight OUT of Lebanon? The search procedure and the blockade generally seems to me to be designed to humiliate. The blockade is just one of many spiteful exercises by Israel following its failure to achieve its objectives on the ground in Lebanon.
How kind. Three weeks after the ceasefire.
The blockade was ostensibly in place to ensure no more arms reach Hezbollah, and all flights coming into and out of Beirut International Airport had to seek Israeli permission to do so first. Only Middle East Airlines and Royal Jordanian, received permission from Israel to resume commercial flights, on condition they stopped at Amman. Why? Jordan (along with Egypt) has signed a peace agreement with Israel, and Jordanian and Israeli authorities and quasi-authorities (if you know what I mean) search the planes and passengers on the ground in Amman. A friend of mine flew to Istanbul from Beirut on Monday on Royal Jordanian and told me the seach in Amman took 5 hours.
Why? If the rationale for the searches is to stop weapons coming INTO Lebanon, why detain a passenger flight OUT of Lebanon? The search procedure and the blockade generally seems to me to be designed to humiliate. The blockade is just one of many spiteful exercises by Israel following its failure to achieve its objectives on the ground in Lebanon.
posted by John @ 10:32 AM
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