Cruz Charges FAA’s Ban Is An Economic Boycott of Israel By Obama

[Purveyor]

Today 4:41 PM by JP Newsroom

Ted CruzU.S. Sen. Ted Cruz (R-TX) on Wednesday questioned the FAA’s decision to ban flights to Israel on behalf of the Obama Administration while, at the same time, announcing continuing aid that will be funneled to Hamas.

“Aiding Hamas while simultaneously isolating Israel does two things. One, it helps our enemy. Two, it hurts our ally,” said Sen. Cruz.

He charged, “The facts suggest that President Obama has just used a federal regulatory agency to launch an economic boycott on Israel, in order to try to force our ally to comply with his foreign-policy demands.”.

Read Cruz’s full statement below:

“Today, the Federal Aviation Administration (FAA) announced that it was extending its ban on flights by U.S. carriers into Israel. The rationale was that because one Hamas-launch rocket had landed in a field one mile from Ben Gurion International Airport, the ‘potentially hazardous security situation created by the armed conflict between Israel and Gaza’ necessitated this extreme action that has so far cancelled some 160 flights and left tens of thousands stranded.

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[Cali_Democrat]

1. I've seen this talking point come from GOPers since the FAA put these restrictions in place.

Republicans think there is some sort of conspiracy to hurt Israel on the part of the Obama admin.

They're crazy.

[indepat]

2. When oh when will our President come grips with the fact that foreign policy affairs rest with

Republicans in the Senate of the ilk of the likes of Herr Cruz who have a fine grasp of all things international: to wit, the
Democratic President needs to tend to his own knitting and stay off Senator Cruz's turf?

[sufrommich]

3. No president can use the FAA for political purposes,Sen.Dumbass. nt

[Hekate]

4. Oh, FFS. And if Obama didn't, and a plane got nicked by shrapnel...

...or something even worse, Cruz and the rest would spin in the other direction. With them it's always damned if he does and damned if he doesn't.


Up yours, Ted Cruz.

[gratuitous]

8. Yep

And that elementary point completely escapes the stenographers of the Fourth Estate. You'd think that just one of them would ask Sen. Cruz, "So, if a plane flying into Tel Aviv gets shot down, Senator, you'd call that part of the price we have to pay for freedom? Yes or no."

[babylonsister]

13. That's it-ad nauseum. nt

[fadedrose]

5. If it's strategy, it's brilliant

As soon as I heard the news yesterday, I thought what a wonderful way to get these two parties to sit down and make an agreement...other countries have banned flights too, which means the world is tiring of this lack of peace, and also of planes being shot down and innocent people being killed.

I wonder if this idea was spawned by the UN Security Council behind closed doors, the one that I wanted to hear so badly.

And nothing else seemed to be working - terrifying the Israelis, killing the Palestinians, nothing.

This affects people in their pocketbooks. Surgery on purses rather than on bodies.

[sufrommich]

9. The FAA is a non-political agency. It isn't

allowed to be used as a political weapon by any administration.

[fadedrose]

12. "Allowed" is a word

US Aid has not been appreciated too much, and our coaxing and pleading for a peace agreement has done no good.

Money, money, money. Money makes things appear to be allowed.

The FAA is people, probably regular people, and people have more sense, as a rule, than bankers. The FAA is always criticized when something bad happens, so maybe it's sense, not cents that is closing the airports. (How come we can't afford domes for OUR airports?)

Whatever, if peace talks start, if what I think is strategy works, the FAA has my blessing and gratitude...as does the UN Security Council who is sending in people to compile reports. and the other countries whose planes are banned from flying over Israel (who have no FAA) - something is cooking.

And the dear President is attending 7 campaign affairs to raise money surely doesn't have time to arrange or work on this stuff with the rest of the world....

May the Force be with you, Mr. President. Hope the peace talks start, and succeed, and work for you and John Kerry, a new hero of mine, so that we win some seats and get SINGLE PAYER....

[Ilsa]

6. I wish Cruz and Gohmert and the rest of their

Crazy fans and friends would charter a flight and fly into Tel Aviv to defy the ban.

[n2doc]

7. Ted "Grandstand" Cruz- No matter what, Blame Obama

I fully expect that he as a team of interns pouring over every news story that comes up, working on how to spin it as something bad about Obama.

One can only hope this continued behavior causes the majority of voters to completely tune him out as a crackpot.

[Aerows]

10. The FAA bans flights because it is dangerous

and we already had MH17 taken down, blame Obama. A flight goes in and a bunch of Americans get killed, blame Obama. Allow some flights in, blame Obama because it is too few, too many, you get the picture.

[MohRokTah]

11. Cruz would be the first to blame Obama if a plane went down. eom