Sweden
Refuses Israeli President’s Plane Entry Into its Airspace
Thanks,
Patrick!
I
think the players have pretty much laid their cards out on the table. There’s
nowhere to go from here, and the cabal has to fold—flat broke. They’re going to
find this sort of reception is the norm, rather than the exception. ~ BP
Swedish
authorities refused on Sunday to allow the plane of Israeli President Shimon
Peres to cross into its airspace en route to Norway, causing him to arrive late
to his official reception.
When
Stockholm refused the plane permission to cross, the pilots were forced into a
holding pattern over the Baltic Sea for 20 minutes until they were rerouted via
Denmark’s airspace.
Peres’s
office blamed Stockholm, while the Israeli Foreign Ministry pointed the finger
at the President’s Office and the private airline company responsible for
arranging the trip.
Israel’s
Haartez newspaper reported the ministry saying that Peres’s office had
failed to follow the correct protocols, resulting in its intervention.
The
ministry said that it should have been arranging the flight all along, but
Peres’s office claimed that Sweden had approved it. The Swedish authorities
said they had no knowledge of the flight.
However,
Israel’s Shin Bet intelligence services verified that all permissions had been
granted, but permission was later revoked for unknown reasons.
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