Ted Cruz: The facts suggest President Obama has just used the FAA to launch an ECONOMIC BOYCOTT on Israel?http://therightscoop.com/ted-cruz-the-facts-suggest-president-obama-has-just-used-the-faa-to-launch-an-economic-boycott-on-israel/Sen. Ted Cruz ripped the president today for using a federal agency, the FAA, to launch an economic boycott on Israel in order to force them to comply with his demands. He pointed out that this economic boycott aids Hamas while simultaneously hurting Israel.
What Cruz is calling for is the Obama administration to answer the following questions:
Was this decision a political decision driven by the White House?
If the FAA?s decision was based on airline safety, why was Israel singled out, when flights are still permitted into Afghanistan, Pakistan, and Yemen?
What was the FAA?s ?safety? analysis that led to prohibiting flights to Israel, while still permitting flights to Ukraine?where a commercial airline flight was just shot down with a BUK missile?
What specific communications occurred between the FAA and the White House? And the State Department? Why were any such communications necessary, if this was purely about airline safety?
Was this a safety issue, or was it using a federal regulatory agency to punish Israel to try to force them to comply with Secretary Kerry?s demand that Israel stop their military effort to take out Hamas?s rocket capacity?
His full statement is 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.
