The Transparent Agenda

President Obama promised us transparency when he was running for election in 2008. It is apparent that once again, he is living up to his promise.

Obama has been anti-Israel for a long time. Longer than he has been president. One needs only to look at his associations and appointments over the years and see that the quality they all have in common is their anti-Israel sentiment. Coupled with his public remarks about Israel returning to its '67 borders, about Israel showing restraint when they are being showered with rockets onto civilian neighborhoods, about Israel making more efforts at peace with an enemy which merely wants its destruction, one can easily see where he true heart lies.

So a rocket falls a mile away from Ben-Gurion Airport in Tel Aviv. Due to the Malaysian airplane that was downed over Ukraine recently, some U.S. airlines began suspending flights to Israel, as a precautionary measure. It wasn't too long before other European airlines suspended flights as well. When our own FAA issued a ban on ALL airline flights to Israel for 24 hours, it seemed questionable. Not surprisingly, this ban has now been extended for another 24 hours. According to former U.S. Dept. of Transportation inspector general Mary Schiavo, "it's very unusual for the FAA to prohibit U.S. carriers from flying to a particular airport. In the past, when the FAA has done it there have been diplomatic consequences."

Meanwhile, Israel has maintained that their airport, which has been under security threat for many years, is safe to travel through. Now Israel would be the last country to risk the lives of travelers wanting to come to its country. So, one would think  if they are feeling confident in their ability to protect people, that would be sufficient. Said Gloria Romm, director of the Civil Aviation Authority of Israel, "it is not a miracle and it is not a trick. We know how to defend Ben-Gurion, period," referring to the thousands of rockets that have been fired into the country while thousands more flights have landed and taken off at the airport.

This brings us back to the FAA, an agency working under the Executive Branch of the government. Sure, they can 'justify' the banning of flights to Israel to maintain the safety and security of its passengers. But let's remember who gets hurt by this ban. It hurts Israel. Only Israel. In fact, Hamas has declared this flight ban as a victory for them. And predictably, nothing has been done about Hamas firing the rocket towards the airport. On the contrary, they continue to get lots of financial aid from this administration, they get treated as an equal player in all this, despite the fact that they are an official terrorist group, and they get the sympathy of the left-wing media here and abroad. Our President is being very transparent now.