Yesterday, Glenn Beck got very upset by a decision by the FAA to prohibit U.S. airlines from “flying to or from Israel’s Ben Gurion International Airport for a period of up to 24 hours” after a Hamas rocket hit a home approximately a mile from the airport.
On his radio show, Beck bizarrely fumed that this move was an effort to punish and blame Israel for the current conflict and was all part of the Obama administration’s ongoing “anti-Israel actions.” Beck went so far as to even apologize to Israel on America’s behalf, saying “forgive us, for we know not what we do.”
Beck returned to this crazy theory last night on his television program where he asserted that if a commercial airplane traveling to Israel were to be shot down by Hamas, the entire world would immediately blame Israel, which would then rapidly descend into vicious anti-Semitic attacks about how all Jews are “greedy, capitalist Zionists” who only care about money.
“That is what it would turn into,” Beck said. “And that is exactly the situation this administration has now put Israel in”:
