I think this is interesting:
"One of the things that really got to me was when we were unloading a plane at Tel Aviv," said Marian, who assisted Israeli nurses on a number of flights. "A little old lady came up to me and took the hem of my jacket and kissed it. She was giving me a blessing for getting them home. We were the wings of eagles."
Yemeni refugees arriving in IsraelFor both Marian and Warren, the assignment came on the heels of flying the airline’s other great adventure of the late 1940s: the Berlin Airlift.
"I had no idea what I was getting into, absolutely none," remembered Warren, who retired in 1979 as Alaska’s chief pilot and vice president of flight operations. "It was pretty much seat-of-the-pants flying in those days. Navigation was by dead reckoning and eyesight. Planes were getting shot at. The airport in Tel Aviv was getting bombed all the time. We had to put extra fuel tanks in the planes so we had the range to avoid landing in Arab territory." [One would assume that countries as worried about the destiny of refugees and so completely not anti-Semitic as the Arab countries would be very hospitable. Weird.]
British officials advised them that Arabs, angry over the establishment of the Jewish state, would certainly kill all the passengers and likely the whole crew if they were forced to land on Arab soil. Many planes were shot at. [Which is weird if you think about it, considering that the Arabs only wanted peace and merely defended themselves against Zionist aggression; this time Zionist aggression in the form of old ladies flying in a pessenger aircraft.]
Days often lasted between 16 and 20 hours and the one-way flights, in twin-engine C-46 or DC-4 aircraft, covered nearly 3,000 miles.
"We’d take off from our base in Asmara (in Eritrea) in the morning and fly to Aden (in Yemen) to pick up our passengers and refuel," Warren said. "Then we’d fly up the Red Sea and the Gulf of Aqaba to the airport at Tel Aviv to unload. Then we’d fly to Cyprus for the night. We couldn’t keep the planes on the ground in Israel because of the bombings." [Unfortunately the Zionist entity is now "oppressing Palestinians" and hence Israel is no longer too dangerous to keep aircraft over night.]
"One of our pilots got a little bit too close to Arab territory when flying into Israel from the Gulf of Aqaba and tracers started arching up toward the plane," Warren said. "Another one of our planes got a tire blown out during a bombing raid in Tel Aviv. One of our crews practically lived on their plane from the end of April through June."
Bob Maguire, another Alaska pilot, once had to drop down to several hundred feet above the ground, squirming through hills and passes, to evade Arab gunfire. [Typical Zionist expansionism.]
http://www.alaskaair.com/as/www2/company/History/MagicCarpet.asp
Note that these planes the Arabs were firing on were passenger aircraft. Of course shooting at pessenger aircraft (loaded with refugees, no less) is a war crime, but the "Palestinian Cause" excuses EVERYTHING.
(Also note that the last 200 Jews of Yemen were flown to America two months ago. For some reason they couldn't stand being firebombed every day any more, despite the fact that the firebombs were not thrown by anti-Semites and were only meant to alleviate Palestinian suffering, as any knowledgeable left-wing nut can tell you.)
You won't find details like that on non-anti-Semitic Web sites calling for the destruction of Israel, of course.
Incidentally, in the last 60 years more Jews have been killed in the name of valid criticism of Israeli policies than by anti-Semitism.
And if we count the Nazis as supporters of the "Palestinian Cause" (which they were), anti-Semitism (unless we include the "Palestinian Cause" as such) is really not a big problem; not since the middle ages anyway.
I for one feel safer knowing that if I ever visit an Arab country and somebody kills me it won't be because of anti-Semitism but solely, how did a left-winger explain this to me, "to bring food and water to the Palestinians".
I did in fact visit an "Arab" country. Luckily many in the middle-east are less anti-Sem... I mean critical of Israeli policies than the average European left-winger and I was thus a lot safer than I would be in some European cities.
Turns out many people in the middle-east know that they are being fed bull shit by the media and those that don't usually have no agenda against Israel and Jews and only remain, eh, "critical of Israeli policies" until they meet a Jew.