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UAE airline receives US funds, won’t serve Israelis

Mar 4, 2014 12:06 pm By Robert Spencer

etihadWhy is the U.S. funding Etihad Airways? Don’t the super-rich sheikhs of Dubai have enough money to take care of it themselves? And why is the U.S. funding an entity that follows Nazi policies regarding Israel? Surely that is a make-or-break issue, or would be if Barack Obama weren’t President.

“UAE airline receives US funds, won’t serve Israelis,” from the JTA, March 4 (thanks to Blazing Cat Fur):

An airline owned by the United Arab Emirates that is a partner of American Airlines removed Israel from its flight map and refuses to transport Israelis.

Etihad Airways’ travel-route map shows all countries in the Middle East with the exception of Israel and its major cities, the New York Post reported Monday. The airline also refuses to allow Israeli passengers, who are not permitted into the UAE, to fly with the airline. The two countries do not have diplomatic relations.

The airline, the only one providing direct service between the United States and Abu Dhabi, receives $425,000 annually from the Department of Homeland Security, the New York Post reported on Monday. The money pays for a facility that allows Abu Dhabi citizens traveling to the United States to clear customs more quickly.

The airline also has obtained six loan guarantees worth some $1.3 billion since 2009 from the Export-Import Bank, a US federal agency
, the Washington Free Beacon reported.

A low-cost British airline, BMI, was found in 2009 to be using an in-flight map that did not include Israel for its flights destined for Arab countries.

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  1. Tom Rkid Wilson says

    Mar 4, 2014 at 12:15 pm

    Thats all wrong .. what can be done about it ?

    • Salah says

      Mar 4, 2014 at 12:39 pm

      Remove Obama and his gang from the W.H.

  2. Cody Chadwick says

    Mar 4, 2014 at 12:31 pm

    should start a petition to end funding and boycott american airlines

    • Elizabeth C. O'Connor says

      Mar 4, 2014 at 3:11 pm

      UAE is the United Arab Emirates.

    • Cody Chadwick says

      Mar 4, 2014 at 3:16 pm

      if you bothered to read the article….it states that they are partners with american airlines…i know what UAE stands for…i ve been to that shit hole at least four times while in the navy…

  3. Shy Guy says

    Mar 4, 2014 at 1:08 pm

    ‘Most pro-Israel administration evah’ systematically bars Shin Bet and Mossad agents, IDF representatives and defense industry execs from visiting US

  4. mortimer says

    Mar 4, 2014 at 1:08 pm

    America needs many different kinds of services. They are costly.

  5. Alarmed Pig Farmer says

    Mar 4, 2014 at 1:36 pm

    Don’t let them land on U.S. soil. Levy an excise tax on airlines that do let them land in their countries.

  6. mortimer says

    Mar 4, 2014 at 1:48 pm

    Change the ‘t’ to ‘j’ and you have E-Jihad…the jihad.

  7. Diann Vail says

    Mar 4, 2014 at 2:19 pm

    whaaaat??? we give these people money? AND they refuse to serve Israelis? The USA has lots it’s mind – no kidding.

  8. Buraq says

    Mar 4, 2014 at 2:35 pm

    @watcher1

    You wrote, bizarrely, that ‘Zionists refuse citizenship to any non-Jew’.

    But anyone can become Israeli via a naturalization process, which involves residency, or they can get it through marriage to an Israeli.

    You’re a wire-wigged, baggy-trousered, red-nosed clown! And a liar.

  9. PRCS says

    Mar 4, 2014 at 2:46 pm

    Test

  10. boakai ngombu says

    Mar 4, 2014 at 3:29 pm

    “… The money pays for a facility that allows Abu Dhabi citizens traveling to the United States to clear customs more quickly….”

    why? more trustworthy are they? are these some of the wonderful people who mentor others and seem impressive to even more others, appearing to be getting close to the Allah god (unknowable; the best of all deceivers)?

  11. Reality Check says

    Mar 4, 2014 at 4:12 pm

    Why is America supporting a UAE airline? I have been asking this and similar questions for a long time. Shouldn’t this money go towards the improvement of American lives? Why should America help a rich country that can take care not only of itself but also of others?

    This is as baffling as the fact that the Syrian refugees in Europe are fed and clothed from the budgets of much poorer European states while the oil-rich sheikhs of the Gulf haven’t spent a penny to help their Muslim brothers and sisters from war-torn Syria.

    This and other observations have always made me think that Muslims are incredibly, inherently selfish and tight-fisted even towards the people of their own faith, let alone any other. They’d rather let the much-hated infidels take care of their own people than do something themselves. Doesn’t the suffering of Syrians strike a chord in their hearts?

  12. Gary Woods says

    Mar 4, 2014 at 5:41 pm

    No shocker here because the Saudi Airline ORDERED Canada to only have men deal with their Planes and Customs agents. Saudi’s imposed Shariah Law on Canadian soil and you would think that the gay lobby and Blacks would be outraged since the Saudi freely spew hatred for both groups. But alas , in the West it seems like the Leftist/Liberal/Progressives give a pass to oppressors when they have a Shared-Hatred for Jews which they disguise as being Anti-Israel and Pro-Palestine. Canada should have given the boot to those pro-pedophilia yahoos in Ottawa along with the other misogynistic/homophobic losers from other Islamic hell-holes. It’s NOT a human Right to have a Airline land in any Nation you want, and if these islamists hate the West so much, then don’t come here and push your neo-Slavery and child-bride obsessions.

  13. Charles Martel says

    Mar 4, 2014 at 9:01 pm

    At the immigration counter at Istanbul airport in Turkey, male immigration inspectors require niqab-wearing women from Saudi Arabia and other “devout” countries to lift their veils. This happens in full view of the entire hall, and nobody has any problem with it.

    Of course, the Ottomans/Turks look back on centuries of experience in dealing with subversion by “fundamentalist” Muslims.

  14. dumbledoresarmy says

    Mar 4, 2014 at 10:02 pm

    Australia’s national airline, QANTAS is now in bed with Emirates. And so now Aussies flying to Europe with QANTAS *have* to stopover in ghastly Dubai.

    If ever I go overseas, no way will I fly QANTAS – I would never never never want to stopover in Dubai, where a thin sheet of gold foil is laid across the top of a bottomless pit filled with rottenness.

    • Brian C. Hoff says

      Mar 5, 2014 at 1:36 pm

      It seem like you might never travel to Europe again since you hate Islam so much.

      • Defcon 4 says

        Mar 5, 2014 at 3:55 pm

        What najjis kaffir in their right mind wouldn’t hate your damned, dumb death cult Hajji?

        • JIMJFOX says

          Mar 5, 2014 at 6:22 pm

          Exactly.

          And who but a lunatic or simpleton would believe Muhammad’s psychotic ravings?

  15. veer says

    Mar 4, 2014 at 11:13 pm

    Folks, lets start emailing American Airlines (as they are partners with Etihad) and Etihad airways directly. i emailed AA the following:

    ” I am very disappointed to know that American Airlines is partners with Etihad Airways, an international airline that follows a policy of discrimination against Israel and does not allow any Israeli citizen to fly. It doesn’t recognize Israel as a nation and has wiped off Israel on its maps. America stands for freedom and equality. Its a shame that an American airline would partner with such a business that practices discrimination. I request American Airlines to look seriously into their partnership.
    I and my family will never fly American Airlines if American Airlines continues it association with businesses that practice discrimination.”

    Please email them from as many accounts as possible. I bet American Airlines will be forced to think about it if they start losing $$$. Its all about $$$.

    • Brian C. Hoff says

      Mar 5, 2014 at 1:38 pm

      Those loans are to help our airliner maker get forgin orders to built airliner you fool.

      • Defcon 4 says

        Mar 6, 2014 at 11:35 am

        How do you figure that? Or was that just the most convenient lie you could come up with?

  16. jeffpresidentlo says

    Mar 4, 2014 at 11:42 pm

    Some blatant discrimination that often goes unnoticed and overlooked.

    On the other hand, within Israel, Arabic is inscribed as an official language, Arabs & Muslims are legal citizens and enjoy full rights.

    Sympathizers to the Palestinian cause have to realize that it is this sort of enmity that hinders all the efforts in the peace process.

  17. moshe says

    Mar 5, 2014 at 9:14 am

    Etihad first class suites are amazing, I’m.an orthdox jew and flew with them using american airlines points.

    • gravenimage says

      Mar 6, 2014 at 9:01 pm

      “moshe” wrote:

      Etihad first class suites are amazing, I’m.an orthdox jew and flew with them using american airlines points.
      ……………………………

      Izzat so? Good thing you were not trying to fly “United” (Etihad) to Israel—or with an Israeli passport.

      How “amazing” would their accommodations be then?

  18. Larry Shapiro says

    Mar 5, 2014 at 10:00 am

    The loan guarantees are probably to assist the airline to buy American made planes. Obama’s administration is carrying on a long tradition of providing loan guarantees to foreign countries to enable them to buy U.S. made weapons systems and airplanes. The U.S. government always assists its industries. To somehow twist this into Obama hates Israel or the Jews is nonsense.

  19. Sumit says

    Mar 5, 2014 at 10:28 am

    Now which is an apartheid state? Israel or Saudi Arabia?

  20. gravenimage says

    Mar 6, 2014 at 8:58 pm

    The airline, the only one providing direct service between the United States and Abu Dhabi, receives $425,000 annually from the Department of Homeland Security
    ……………………………

    That the money for discriminating against our allies comes from the *Department of Homeland Security* makes this all the more surreal…

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