• Tar_Alcaran@sh.itjust.works
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    1 month ago

    Today, they’re not. If you want an evacuation flight form Isreal today, you can’t, you need to book a commercial flight. If you want one from Lebanon, you can’t, you need to book a commercial flight. That’s the same treatment for everyone.

    In 2.5 weeks from today, you can ask for help getting a flight from Israel. Will the same apply to Lebanon in 2.5 weeks? I dunno, they haven’t told anyone either way, though other countries have said they’d organise flights if all commercial flights are full/stopped (I assume the same would apply for the US).

    I mean, if you want me to point out the US is massively unfairly helping Isreal to the massive detriment of the entire region, i’ll gladly do that. But this mostly doesn’t seem like a fair comparison.

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      1 month ago

      The post literally says that Israeli-American’s can have help booking flights from the American government but the American-Lebanese ones will not get the same level of help. How is that the same treatment?

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        1 month ago

        If you read the screenshots, not the braindead text, that’s absolutely not what it says. Try again I guess.

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          1 month ago

          Nowhere in the image does it say Israelis are not able to book flights or that there are no flights. A quick look at the flight status of the tel Aviv airport confirms that there are flights. The US government is offering Israeli-Americans the ability to rely on them if they are facing difficulties. They are not offering the same to Lebanese-Americans.

          https://www.telaviv-airport.com/ben-gurion-departures

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          1 month ago

          I can book flights from both airports. Israel doesn’t have all flights canceled.

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              1 month ago

              In what way do you think Americans in Lebanon are having it easier compared to people in Israel where it warrants this difference of treatment by the US government?