https://www.timesofisrael.com/liveblog_entry/lufthansa-swiss-air-cancel-flights-...




By Reuters Today, 12:29 pm

Germany’s Lufthansa Group has extended its suspension of flights to Tel Aviv, Tehran, Beirut, Amman and Erbil up to and including Aug. 21, the airline says amid fears of an escalation in conflict in the Middle East.

Lufthansa will not be using Iranian and Iraqi airspace during that period, it adds in an emailed statement.

At the same time, Swiss International Air Lines says it has also extended the suspension of its flights to and from Tel Aviv and Beirut up to and including August 21.

It adds that it will avoid airspace over Iran, Iraq and Israel until that date.

Serious question.

The Arabs in "Palestine" gained the land originally through conquest in 636–637 AD.

But they call themselves the indigenous people of the land, to the point they have appropriated the Aboriginal flag and tried to insert themselves into that struggle to gain equivalence.

But they conquered the land.

Shouldn't they be repaying the people who they stole the land from?

At what point do the conquering people become indigenous?

I'm thinking the closer the American carrier battle group gets the further away the impeding attack from Iran gets.

Funny that

Quote:

Talk is cheap, eh Iran?
Being completely wiped out is nothing but humiliation

https://www.timesofisrael.com/rattling-sabers-idf-drills-for-long-range-strike-a...



as Hezbollah touts advanced missiles
Threatening messages come amid ongoing fighting along border with Lebanon,
including surveillance drone thought to belong to terror group crashing in northern town


By Emanuel Fabian
16 August 2024,




An IAF Boeing 707 refueling plane and several F-35 and F-15 fighter jets
carry out a drill just off the coast of Israel, August 15, 2024.

Israeli jets recently practiced mid-air refueling to prepare for long-range sorties, the military announced Friday in what was seen as a stark warning to Iran, as the Hezbollah terror group in Lebanon sought to flex its own muscle by showing off an underground silo for precision missiles.

The region has been bracing for a major escalation in violence for more than two weeks, since Israel killed Hezbollah’s military chief Fuad Shukr and was blamed for the assassination of Hamas political leader Ismail Haniyeh in Tehran, drawing promises to retaliate from both Iran and its Lebanese proxy.

Israel has been on high alert and has warned that it would respond if Iran or Hezbollah attack, even as low-level clashes with the Lebanese group continued Friday along Israel’s northern border.

The Israeli Air Force’s drill on Thursday “simulated a long-range flight deep in enemy territory, while conducting aerial refueling several times in short periods,” the IDF said, in an apparent reference to a potential strike in Iran or deep in Lebanon. Both strikes would likely involve the use of air-to-air refuelers.