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Karen Martin was the first of the flight attendants to be attacked by Islamic terrorists on September 11. While the head flight attendant on American Airlines Flight 11 lay bleeding after being stabbed, the rest of her team, Betty Ong and Amy Sweeney, remained collected and provided the first reports about the hijacking. By the time the 9/11 attacks were over, 25 flight attendants would be among the nearly 3,000 killed by Arab Muslim terrorists.
Airline passengers however recently noted the shocking images of some flight attendants wearing PLO pins. Islamic terrorists claiming to represent the cause of the Arab Muslim colonists in Israel who called themselves ‘Palestinians’ had innovated the practice of the mass hijacking of airplanes. There was a direct line between the Dawson’s Field hijacking of four airplanes in 1970 and the hijacking of four airplanes by Al Qaeda on September 11.
In 1970, a plane headed to New York City was hijacked by a terrorist holding a gun to a flight attendant’s head. While an Israeli steward helped end a hijacking attempt on one of the planes, the captured terrorists were traded in exchange for the hostages. And one of the terrorists, Leila Khaled, would go on to become a popular figure in the campus anti-Israel movement.
Flight attendants supporting Islamic terrorists would seem to be suicidal, but they’re not alone.
The Association of Flight Attendants CWA recently announced that it had joined other radical unions in bailing out Hamas by calling for an end to Israeli attacks on the Islamic terrorist group.
The AFA-CWA has taken to trying to ‘organize’ Delta workers into joining its radical union and has championed the wearing of PLO flag pins as a sign of what it can do for flight attendants..
When Delta reacted by banning any pins other than the American flag, an AFA-CWA video furiously blasted the airline for taking a stand for America and against support for terrorists.
The video claimed that opposing terrorist flag pins was “racist” and urged flight attendants to join the union which would protect them from “harassment” by passengers opposed to terrorism.
Other flight attendants wearing terrorist flag pins were seen on Spirit and JetBlue: whose flight attendants are represented by AFA-CWA. JetBlue was accused of “blatant antisemitism” after calling the police on a Jewish passenger after he objected to a terrorist flag pin.
The AFA-CWA may be ‘ground zero’ for the explosion of terrorist flag pins on planes.
Sara Nelson, the president of AFA CWA, had previously weaponized the union for partisan attacks, but this is the first time a union of flight attendants is working to help terrorists.
Some of the same Islamic terrorists who butchered flight attendants on September 11.
Hamas, which the AFA CWA is trying to save as part of the so-called National Labor Network for Ceasefire (NLNC), is an arm of the Muslim Brotherhood. As was Al Qaeda whose core emerged out of a splinter group of the Muslim Brotherhood. Osama bin Laden had been a member of the Brotherhood. Intervening to save Hamas in Gaza is the same thing as saving Al Qaeda.
The AFA-CWA press release described President Sara Nelson as a “a consistent social justice supporter” and claimed that the union was trying to stop Israel’s attacks on Hamas because “aviation’s first responders bring people together around the world. Saving lives comes first.”
As Americans found out on September 11, saving lives in the air requires fighting terrorists, not surrendering to them. The AFA-CWA’s attempt to save terrorists will only cost more lives.
Including those of flight attendants.
Unlike the Association of Professional Flight Attendants, which is an independent union that represents American Airlines flight attendants and maintains a memorial to the heroic flight attendants killed on 9/11, the AFA CWA is an extremist organization linked to the far left.
While the AFA part stands for the Association of Flight Attendants, the CWA part means that the union is actually a subset of the Communications Workers of America. The CWA had already issued its own demand that Israel stop attacking Hamas. As has the AFL-CIO that the CWA is affiliated with. Rather than representing flight attendants, the AFA-CWA is part of a larger leftist political machine whose roots are not in the workplace, but in the government-union complex.
AFA-CWA President Sara Nelson, who was being considered for a ‘labor’ cabinet position in the Biden administration, has done quite well at the expense of actual labor. Records show that while the average flight attendant earns less than $70,000, Nelson made nearly $180,000.
Nelson is married to fellow union honcho, David Borer, who is the general counsel for the American Federation of Government Employees. Borer’s salary has been estimated at $290,000. Together this ‘union household’ pulls down nearly half a million dollars a year.
That may explain how Sara Nelson and David Borer’, whose unions are both under the AFL-CIO umbrella, can afford to live in Chevy Chase, an extremely wealthy D.C. area neighborhood where the elite reside and other political government operatives make their home.
Nelson is an ally of Sen. Bernie Sanders who has repeatedly attacked Israel for defending itself. And like Sanders, Nelson has learned to live quite well while shouting about class warfare.
The AFA CWA’s efforts to save Islamic terrorists, who murder flight attendants, show that the union no longer represents flight attendants or Americans, but a class of radical activists who hate America and support its enemies. And they want to fly the colors of those enemies.
Flight attendants, like all of us, have a choice. We can be like Betty Ong and Amy Sweeney who resisted the Islamic terrorists on September 11, or like Sara Nelson who defends them.
On September 11, Arab Muslim had to hijack planes to fly them into buildings. But now there are radical flight attendants who don’t even need to be hijacked to support airline hijackers.
SPURWING PLOVER says
Time fora a total cleaning out of the FAA and Dept of Transportation and all those who would have Terrorists loading Passenger Planes and return all violent minded Islamic Extremists to their Nation o Birh and those Islamic Converts/Ham-A** as well
Cat says
I had no idea! Thank you for letting us know.
Don’t mind me, I’m still amazed American elected Barak Hussein Obama in 2008. Now we can fly terror supporting airlines. Groovy.
Freed says
Elected? No way. John Brennan scrubbed his records but did not do a good job
as some leaked out showing Barry Sotero to be illegal. Bathhouse Barry was selected not
elected. The fix was in.
Allan Goldstein says
I grew up in the days of “skyjacking” by homesick Cuban expats desperate to go back home.
“Please let me back in, Fidel. Here is a gift of a plane!”
(Recommended film for conservatives under 65: “The Out-Of-Towners” starring Jack Lennon & Sandy Dennis. After a series of messy NYC misadventures, the couple fly back home to the Midwest…..only to have their plane skyjacked by Cubans and redirected towards Havana. THAT is the film’s punchline/coda!)
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Airlines started profiling hispanic-looking folk in response to all the skyjackings.
The Hispanic community didn’t like it, but neither did they raise a ruckus about it. Rather, they cooperated with the newly emplaced “air marshalls”.
The result: the skyjackings stopped, AND no-one under 65 seems to know that Cubans ever even had a BAD REP for skyjacking.
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Muslims who protest increased scrutiny after 9/11 are short-sighted.
Lefties who support them, or otherwise get with their program because they feel sorry for them, are ignoramuses.
…And flight attendants who wear pro-terrorism badges are just begging for it…and many of them will get theirs…and they will become the cry-bullies of tomorrow.
Tionico says
There is only one tatic that would have any real hope of ending these hijackings… allow normal passengers to be armed on the airplanes just like they are on the ground wherever they go.
Had even ONE passenger been armed on that fourth plane of Sept Eleven, that plane would never have been overtaken.
johninohio1 says
They’re supposed to have armed air marshals on board now.
Maynard G Hirsch says
Hope they are better at their jobs than the secret service.
George says
The air Marshall’s have all been taken off our planes to assist moving illegal aliens at the border. That’s the truth.
Anacleto Mitraglia says
Are you sure Kareem Abdul Jabbar was not at the helm? Did they check the Autopilot?
Allan Goldstein says
Leave the autopilot to Monica Lewinsky. ~
Billy Bones says
This just goes to show how effective groups like CAIR and assorted Muslim Brotherhood affiliated groups are at burrowing into key parts of our overall infrastructure.
Susan Haines says
As a former AA IOR-based flight attendant and a past member of the AFPA, I am horrified at this insanity. When I was earlier LAX-based, I used to fly the BOS flight 11,/12 and the IAD (Dulles) flight 77/76 turnaround, both of which were the target flights on 9/11. It could have been me.
Daniel Greenfield says
Thank you for speaking out and sharing your experiences.
Alix Brit says
flight attendants – they have turned into some of the dumbest people in the world! I do remember the flight attendants on 9/11 fighting back – now they would be separating the Jewish passengers from the other passengers.
Mike Larkin says
Right down there with Queers for Palestine.
Lightringer says
The flight attendants will be the first useful idiots to die in the next high jacking/suicide-bombing-by-plane effort. Do they think their pro-“palestinian” pins will save them? They will just be easier to identify.
johninohio1 says
They expect to go to paradise and collect 70 (what?)
Mitzi Alvin says
According to the Brits, the Jews were wrong to attempt any kind of self-defense during WWII. And they are wrong, according to world opinion, to try it now. Jews need to understand, the Jewish mission is, first and foremost, to be the world’s scapegoat. But, too bad for them, they just don’t get it.
Alkflaeda says
As a Briton, I’m not doubting that some of my countrymen could be sufficiently stupid and bigoted to say something like this, but they don’t speak for me. As far as I am concerned, Jewish people generally, and Israel in particular, have every right to defend themselves.
Richard Craycroft says
I guess it could get stupider. Some of them could be Lesbians.