“It’s yet another example of the Wikipedia editors’ anti-Israel bias,” Alyza Lewin of the Combat Antisemitism Movement told JNS.
Wikipedia. Credit: Gerd Altmann/Pixabay.
(Oct. 2, 2026 / JNS)
The main entry on Wikipedia—one of the most visited sites on the internet and one that reportedly feeds into the ways that artificial intelligence tools answer questions from users—essentially blames Israel for being attacked on Oct. 7, the bloodiest day for Jews since the Holocaust.
Jew-hatred watchdogs and pro-Israel groups have long accused the crowdsourced encyclopedia, in which almost anyone can post to the site, of antisemitic bias. But the fact that its main entry on the Hamas-led Oct. 7 attacks states in its first sentence that the terror attacks were “a series of coordinated armed incursions from the blockaded Gaza Strip” adds insult to injury, experts told JNS.
“It’s yet another example of the Wikipedia editors’ anti-Israel bias,” Alyza Lewin, president of U.S. affairs at the Combat Antisemitism Movement, told JNS. “They modify entries to support a distorted narrative that erases Jewish history and the Jewish experience. This time they added the word ‘blockaded’ to try and justify Hamas’s barbaric Oct. 7 massacre.”
The claim on the Wikipedia page recalls statements from anti-Israel protesters, “who claim that ‘resistance is justified’ or U.N. Secretary-General António Guterres’s assertion that Oct. 7 ‘did not happen in a vacuum,’” Lewin said.
The edit to the main Oct. 7 page to include the word “blockaded” took place in February and only got minimal pushback from another editor at the time on the entry’s “talk” page.
Discussion was revived in August, as more editors pushed back, which prompted a formal discussion on Sept. 11 to determine if there was consensus among editors—which can be any active Wikipedia user who has edited for at least 30 days and made at least 500 edits—whether the word “blockaded” should remain in the opening sentence.
“The edit ignores Hamas’s history of diverting humanitarian aid intended for Gaza’s civilian population,” Lewin told JNS. “Indeed, Hamas used pre-Oct. 7 aid to build a massive terror tunnel network under homes, schools and mosques from which it launched its attacks, cynically exploiting civilians as a human shield and then crying ‘genocide’ when Israel defended itself.”
Shortly after the Oct. 7 attacks, Guterres said at the U.N. Security Council that the attacks “did not happen in a vacuum” and that “the Palestinian people have been subjected to 56 years of suffocating occupation.” At the time, Gilad Erdan, the Israeli envoy to the global body, said that the secretary-general’s comment “expressed an understanding for terrorism and murder.”
The Wikipedia user who launched the formal discussion stated that “Israel’s blockade of the Gaza Strip is a defining feature of this topic and necessary context for a non-specialist reader” and that the highest-quality sources support using the word “blockaded” in a neutral voice in the opening sentence.
The editor cited Rashid Khalidi, whom the editor called the “preeminent expert in modern Palestinian history,” to support using the term. Jonathan Schanzer, executive director of the Foundation for Defense of Democracies, has noted that Khalidi was a spokesman for the Palestine Liberation Organization when the PLO was a U.S.-designated terrorist organization. Khalidi has denied that.
The Wikipedia user compared saying Hamas came from a “blockaded” place to noting that the Warsaw Ghetto uprising opposed an oppressive regime. “We must not create an exception to obfuscate through omission here,” the person wrote.
A different editor wrote on Tuesday that “blockaded” should not be used, because “the word suggests justification.”
“To the unedified reader, it may well connote the most extreme version of what ‘blockade’ might mean, like the complete stoppage of all food and supply into a territory,” the editor wrote.
The discussion remained ongoing as of press time.
Max Abrahms, an associate professor of political science at Northeastern University who studies terrorism and the Middle East, told JNS that “the removal of pro-Israel scholars and even Israel-neutral ones” from academia has impacted “Wikipedia and many other forms of discourse influencing the public.”
“Zionist-free higher education reduces balanced scholarship and contributes to Wikipedia’s bias,” he said. “The same is true of podcasts and social media, where almost no pro-Israel scholars can be found.”
“Philanthropists who care about Israel and intellectual pluralism must make targeted investments to ensure there are faculty to teach the younger generation, which will also have all sorts of additional benefits like objectively correct entries on Wikipedia,” he told JNS.
Gaining access to the man who – with the exception of Donald Trump – must be the most heavily protected individual on the planet was never going to be straightforward, but nothing could have prepared me for the ordeal to come.
After being dropped off by taxi just down the road from Israeli prime minister Benjamin Netanyahu's office, my photographer and I headed for the seven-storey building a minute's drive from the Knesset in central Jerusalem.
We negotiated the anti-ramming bollards outside and showed our IDs as we passed through a wrought-iron gate and entered a world of scanners and X-ray machines that would put the most exacting airport screening to shame.
As the security checks got under way, we were surrounded by armed guards carrying MI6 assault rifles and, two hours later, I was still there as the Daily Mail photographer had all of his equipment taken apart to ensure that none of it contained explosives.
No one knows about the lethal potential of electronic devices better than the Israelis, who two years ago killed and injured hundreds of members of Hezbollah by triggering explosives concealed in pagers and walkie-talkies.
My interview with Netanyahu had been arranged for 8.30pm on Thursday, but it was past nine by the time I got to the purpose-built studio where our conversation was to take place. There were more armed men, this time special forces troops, masked up and dressed in black.
The prime minister arrived shortly afterwards and, after a warm handshake, motioned me to a chair opposite him at the long oak table that dominated the room.
For a man who has spent the three years since the October 7 attacks negotiating one crisis after another, not least the Flydubai hijack attempt just 18 hours earlier, he looked surprisingly relaxed. Dressed in a dark suit – with an enamel badge of the Israeli flag on his lapel – and a white shirt with a royal blue tie, it was soon clear he meant business. Britain's Labour Government, he said, was behaving 'like a rogue state' and appeasing an 'Islamist Leftist alliance'.
Benjamin Netanyahu speaks to Natalie Lisbona in an exclusive interview with the Daily Mail
He was referring to its decision last month to ban trade with Israeli settlements on the West Bank, which followed Keir Starmer's decision to withhold some arms licences and to recognise a Palestinian state before all of the October 7 hostages had been freed.
He was particularly incensed by the move because it coincided with Israeli intelligence tipping off our security services about an impending Iran-sponsored 'murderous attack' on RAF Fairford.
'It was stopped. It was prevented,' he said, adding that, without the intelligence Israel provided, 'it would probably have gone through and we don't know how many British lives would have been lost'.
Netanyahu insisted Israel still regarded London as an ally, but then launched an extraordinary broadside against the Government. 'It's mind-blowing hypocrisy, I don't know how many lives we have saved giving Britain information about impending attacks.
'They're appeasing, they're attacking Israel, [the country] that is fighting the terrorists in the terrorist regime that is attacking them. They appease their enemies, and they attack their protectors, really. That's what's happening. But this is a twist of both logic and justice. It doesn't serve Britain well, it doesn't serve the world well.'
'There is a pressure from inside Britain to appease these various Islamist forces in Britain. And once you start appeasing, you don't stop. That's what we learn. Churchill called it the slumber of democracies. And by that he meant the democracy sort of slumbers while their enemies begin to attack them… until they hear the jarring gong of danger.
'Well, it's gonging all the way, and they still haven't woken up.'
Asked how he would characterise relations between the two countries, Netanyahu was equally forthright. 'Well, it's not very good, is it? I mean, when they appease our common enemies and attack us, it doesn't say much.
'Look, we're fighting the battle, I call it the Battle of Britain, the Battle of Western civilisation against these barbarians. And there's so much deception. There's so much propaganda. I mean, trying to glorify Hamas, trying to glorify the Islamists that have killed Britons. It killed Americans, it killed Israelis. It killed nationals of dozens and dozens of countries.
'And Israel is painted as this great devil. We're not the devil. We're a tiny country fighting here in the heart of the Middle East, not only to protect ourselves, but also to protect the modern Arab states against the Iranian domination and these murderous proxies.
'We always consider Britain as an ally, even though we have, on occasion, differences with them.'
Dressed in a dark suit – with an enamel badge of the Israeli flag on his lapel – and a white shirt with a royal blue tie, it was soon clear he meant business
He suggested the relationship was in danger of deteriorating to the point where the British Government, 'in order to ingratiate itself with its political base, has gone rogue. Like a rogue state'.
He argued that Labour should view the 'Islamist Leftist alliance' as 'natural adversaries'.
'What do these people do? They hang gays, you know, they deprive women of any rights. They murder their own people in Gaza, or Lebanon, or Iran. Executing all their enemies. They are the opposite of democracies. And what does the government in Britain do? It turns on the one democracy that is fighting these monstrous regimes in this terrible state, the worst terrorist state on the planet. That's what Britain is doing.'
'I won't get into that, but we just did,' he said, referring to the Fairford incident. 'That's a fact.'
And that was no isolated example, he says, adding that Israeli intelligence has repeatedly helped protect Britain from attacks.
'I don't know how many Britons know how many lives we saved by giving Britain advance information of impending attacks.' Netanyahu argued that the UK Government was targeting Israel while, in his view, failing to confront their common enemies. This catalogue of public rebukes by such a long-time ally highlights how far relations between Israel and Britain have deteriorated.
He also blamed Labour policies towards Israel for fuelling anti-Semitism. 'Look, we've been there before. The Jewish people have suffered these kinds of vilifications that always, always preceded the most violent attacks on our people during our, you know, centuries of our exile and the various diasporas.
'And then, of course, it reached a peak in the Nazi Holocaust, which was also preceded with the same lies and the same vilifications... Apparently, this is something we're going to have to live with in this century, too. The one thing that has changed is that we now have a state. We now have an army. We have security and intelligence agencies that can help us protect ourselves. But in so doing, when we defend ourselves, we also defend our vilifiers. That's the incredible thing that is happening.'
Turning to Iran, Netanyahu offered a message to Iranians opposing the country's leadership. 'This regime will fall. They take time, but they'll fall. Right now, they're very weak. President Trump's blockade is really weakening the IRGC [the Iranian Revolutionary Guard Corps] a lot. So I'd say, don't lose faith. Your day of freedom will come.'
But he quickly turned his attention back to Britain, questioning why demonstrators and the Government were not directing greater anger towards Tehran.
'But what I say to the people in Britain, where are you? Those who are protesting against us? Why aren't you protesting outside the Iranian embassy? Why don't you get the full venom of the British Government? Where is it? Why is it not directed against Iran? Why is it not directed against his proxies?
'Why are you taking this brave, small democracy, fighting as Britain fought against the tyranny that threatened not only Britain, but the entire world. Why are you turning against the one country that is standing in defence of freedom and democracy? Why are you buying all these lies that are perpetrated against us?'
Netanyahu also accused Western governments of focusing their criticism on Israel while failing to recognise the threat posed by Iran. 'This is a regime in Iran that murdered or maimed tens of thousands of its own citizens. They're now choking the economies of the West. They're choking your energy supplies. They're choking your economies. They're choking the international waterways.
'I don't see the railing of, you know, of rage that is directed against Israel directed there. So it's completely misplaced. In Israel, which is the defender of civilisation right now.
'With the help of our American allies, we went against Iran's nuclear programme. What would have happened if Iran had nuclear weapons now? Think of what they're doing without nuclear weapons. Just hitting everybody in sight. And choking the world.'
Netanyahu, who confirmed that he is yet to speak to Andy Burnham despite the fact the former Manchester mayor took office in July, went on to accuse Labour of bowing to domestic pressure over its approach to Israel
Given that we're speaking the day after the dramatic hijack attempt on an airliner flying from Dubai to Tel Aviv, I ask whether he suspects Iranian involvement.
'As time passes, the picture becomes clearer: the attacker had undergone Islamist radicalisation,' he replies. 'He came to crash the plane, along with its passengers. We are investigating whether he was sent, and whoever sent him will pay a very heavy price.'
The incident is all the more poignant for Netanyahu because it occurred around the 50th anniversary of the Entebbe raid, in which his brother Yoni was killed while leading the Israeli operation to rescue hostages from a hijacked Air France airliner in Uganda.
He praised the Israeli passengers who courageously intervened to rescue the Flydubai pilot and regain control of the plane, saying he was 'amazed' by their success in preventing a 9/11-style tragedy.
'If it wasn't for the extraordinary courage and resourcefulness of this Israeli passenger, you know, the sewage plumber. He heard screams from the cockpit. He ran to the cockpit. The plane was already veering out of control. He was thrust to the side.
'He apparently managed to open the door because of the Indian pilot's action, but he still had to move the Indian pilot, this brave pilot, and grab the attacker, the co-pilot, who nearly stabbed this guy to death, and pull him away. He was leaning, actually, he said, on the instrument panel, kicking it. Tried to jam it to make sure that [the plane] goes down.
'He grabbed him, pulled him back, then grabbed the stick, pulled the stick back, and prevented, you know, that continuous slide down. And he was joined by other Israelis and a crew member. They tied the hijacker with the cord of the headphones in the cockpit. Can you imagine?'
He praised the 'extraordinary teamwork' of the plumber and the off-duty pilots who happened to be on board, and described their success in preventing a disaster as 'so improbable that it almost sounds miraculous, and in fact, it is miraculous'. He added: 'I served in our special forces. We said, 'if we have these contingencies, we'll know what to do'. These are civilians. First of all, I'm not sure that had I been there with my team, my soldiers, we would have done better. But these extraordinarily brave Israelis, you know, they organised the matter.'
Netanyahu will soon have to turn his mind to domestic politics as the electorate head to the polls on October 27, with the sitting PM seeking another mandate after three years of war.
Asked why voters should return him to office, he pointed to his government's record against Hamas and Hezbollah and its success in preventing Iran from obtaining nuclear weapons. 'We could have all been incinerated by now,' he said, 'and they are developing long-range missiles.
'They're attacking us from the outside, and they'll attack you from the outside, but from the inside, you have this appeasing the government, that is a very deadly combination.'
In a rare glimpse into the personal toll his political career has taken, Netanyahu admitted that attacks directed at his wife Sara and their children were difficult to endure. 'I'm used to paying the price, being in public office, but the virulent attacks against my wife, the character assassination, and against my kids, is hard to take. That is hard. I won't tell you that it's easy. It's not.'
By now, I've already been warned my 20 minutes are nearly up and, having managed to extract an extra ten, I decide it's time to bring the interview to a close.
But there's still time for Netanyahu to launch one final salvo against Burnham's Britain, this time over the small-boat crisis.
'I think that if Britain doesn't regain control over its borders, you will lose Britain,' he said.
He added that Churchill always thought Britain's status as an island gave it a great ability to defend itself. 'I don't think that's holding now because of the boats, and obviously, it's up to the British Government to control that, or to prevent it. It's possible. But they haven't asked for our advice, and we haven't given it.
'There's still time for Britain to recover, to regain its senses. I hope that it does, because we've had an extraordinary relationship with Britain over the decades, and I'm the first one to regret that it's... that it's gone where it's going.'
Mayor Zohran Mamdani unveiled what he calls “the nation’s first-ever municipal Strategy to Combat Antisemitism” on Tuesday. It is the plan he revoked on his first day in office, reprinted with every page that touches Israel torn out. That is the whole review. The rest is commentary.
The document gives itself away in its verbs. The task force has been “reconvened.” The security working group was “relaunched.” The antisemitism office was “reestablish[ed].” Every “re” is a concession, and each one has a source the strategy declines to name. Eric Adams appears in its 33 pages exactly zero times.
The source is not hard to find. Section 13 of Mamdani’s own Executive Order 2 substantially reproduces Adams’ Executive Order 51, down to the membership of the interagency task force. Section 21 of the same order concedes that provisions which “substantially repromulgate” revoked orders “shall be construed to be continuations.” His own lawyers wrote the citation he left out.
The rest is inherited too. The plan to expand Title VI staffing in public schools was already in Chapter V of the Adams blueprint published Dec. 30. The training the strategy showcases launched in April 2022.
What he did not copy is the point. Adams’ founding order directed the office to “monitor court cases” and to “liaise with the New York City Law Department on appropriate cases to bring or join.” Mamdani’s version keeps the surrounding text and drops that sentence. In the new strategy, the Law Department appears once, in the acknowledgments, and “litigation” appears once, in the legal disclaimer, inside a sentence ensuring nothing in the document can be used in one. He kept the office and cut the explicit instruction to work with city lawyers on cases to bring or join.
Then the definition. Adams adopted the International Holocaust Remembrance Alliance’s working definition of antisemitism. Mamdani rescinded it Jan. 1, after his campaign promised he would instead “approach antisemitism in line with the Biden Administration’s National Strategy to Counter Antisemitism.” His strategy now quotes a paragraph from Biden’s document to explain why New York needs no definition at all. The very next paragraph of Biden’s document, on the same page, calls IHRA “the most prominent” definition, “which the United States has embraced.” The strategy invokes Biden’s authority while omitting his endorsement of the definition Mamdani revoked.
Biden’s strategy also says that “when Israel is singled out because of anti-Jewish hatred, that is antisemitism.” That sentence did not survive the trip from Pennsylvania Avenue to City Hall.
The need for clarity surfaced in April. At a City Council hearing, Councilman Eric Dinowitz asked the NYPD’s deputy commissioner for legal matters whether “Kill the Zionists” graffiti on a kosher restaurant would be charged as a hate crime. The answer: “it’s going to depend” on the investigation, and on whether the motive was “pure political motivation.” And “Kill the Jews” on the same wall? “That’s a hate crime right there.” As Dinowitz put it, “Zionist” is “used as a proxy for ‘Jew.’” The exchange shows exactly why a city strategy needs to address when political labels become proxies for Jewish identity.
Now search the strategy for the words that describe what actually happened to Jewish New Yorkers after Oct. 7. “Intifada”: zero. “Hamas”: zero. “Campus,” “encampment,” “BDS,” “anti-Zionism”: zero. “Protest” appears twice, both in a footnote to the crime statistics, and the footnote defends the protesters.
Adams’ Executive Order 60 directed city contracting officials and mayoral pension trustees against discriminatory targeting of Israel, Israelis and associated entities. Mamdani revoked it on day one. The new strategy says nothing about procurement or pensions. He removed the safeguard, then omitted the subject.
The money follows the same logic. The headline “$26 million” is a general increase for the city’s hate-crimes office, which serves every community. The strategy specifies $1 million in physical-security grants, shared among vulnerable nonprofits, including synagogues. That is under 4 percent of the headline, for a community that Police Commissioner Jessica Tisch says absorbed 330 hate crimes last year, 57 percent of the city’s total, from a tenth of its population.
To be clear, some of what the strategy continues is worth continuing. But the reason it has no definition, no protest section and no word on the economic targeting of Israel is that each would describe the mayor. There is no definition because the City's own witness could not say whether “kill the Zionists” targeted on a kosher restaurant was a hate crime. It cannot address protests because the Mayor vetoed the school-access bill. It cannot address anti-Israel propaganda or discriminatory economic targeting because the Mayor endorses both. A strategy against antisemitism that cannot say “anti-Zionism” was written around its author.
Mamdani could strengthen this strategy immediately: restore the IHRA order and the procurement safeguards, restore the express litigation mandate, and fund the physical protections the earlier blueprint proposed. Those would be concrete reasons for applause. Instead, the administration offers inherited programs alongside omissions that track the mayor’s own political choices. New Yorkers are entitled to judge the package by the protections it delivers and the ones it does not.
For anyone applauding this man: raise your standards. Jewish safety cannot stop where the mayor’s ideology begins.
Mark Goldfeder is CEO of the National Jewish Advocacy Center and a law professor at Touro Law School.
Who Killed DHS Whistleblower Philip Haney and DNC Official Seth Rich?
Do the American people have a right to know?
James Copenhaver, who on July 13, 2024 in Butler, Pennsylvania took two bullets from the gunman targeting Donald Trump has died at age 76. The gunman, Thomas Matthew Crooks, wounded David Dutch, killed Corey Comperatore, and as CNN reported Donald Trump suffered an “injury,” to his ear, language more appropriate for an accident. FBI director Christopher Wray took it to another level.
“Shrapnel” might have accounted for Trump’s wound, claimed the FBI boss, who commands the best ballistics and forensic experts. Nothing about the semiautomatic 5.56 rifle from which Crooks unleashed eight shots. The 20-year-old, with no tactical experience, easily bypassed the US Secret Service and a state police detail to gain an ideal rooftop shooting position. Wray’s FBI did nothing to prevent the attempted assassination, which has now claimed a second victim. That’s hard to top but Secret Service boss Kimberly Cheatle was up to the task.
The Biden appointee refused to tell Congress how many rounds Crooks had been able to fire, which she had to know. Cheatle acknowledged “mistakes” and “gaffes,” and it took 10 days before the obvious incompetent resigned. The Secret Service fired no agents and nearly a year later issued suspensions without pay ranging from 10-42 days for six unnamed agents, all granted the right to appeal.
No word which performance failures earned the time off, and the six reportedly included the special agent in charge of the Pittsburgh field office, tasked with coordinating security for the Trump rally in Butler, Pennsylvania. As the people should know, this is hardly the only assassination attempt still shrouded in mystery.
Islamic terroristsand their protectors in government would be the primary persons of interest, but the Amador County Sheriff’s office (ACSO) announced no suspects and quickly handed the case to the FBI. The bureau announced no suspects, posted no reward, and took control of Haney’s electronic devices and written materials.
According to forensic pathologist Katherine Raven MD, the cause of Haney’s death was a “perforating gunshot wound of torso,” approximately one inch in diameter and “consistent with contact range.” Dr. Raven found an exit wound on the left side of the back and abrasions on both knees. The forensic pathologist signed out “homicide autopsy,” but in 2022 Redman proclaimedHaney’s death a suicideand declared the case officially closed. But it wasn’t.
The Department of Homeland Security charged the dead man with harboring “contraband,” as though the terrorism expert was some sort of smuggler, and also guilty of fraud, illegal disclosure under five U.S. laws. The three binders “said to contain whistleblower documents” were doubtless part of the archive Haney was gathering for the “National Security Meltdown” book he mentioned in 2019.
Six years after Haney’s death by gunshot, the FBI has announced no revelations in the case, which is not a one-off. Consider the case of Seth Rich director of voter expansion data for the Democratic National Committee. On July 10, 2016, the 27-year-old was gunned down in Washington DC. Police called it a street robbery gone wrong, but the shooters did not take Rich’s wallet, watch or phone. Weeks after the murder, as the BBC reported, “Wikileaks published 20,000 emails obtained from Democratic National Committee computers via an anonymous source.”
According to prominent Democrats, that was all part of Trump’s collusion with Russia. With that ploy exposed as a hoax, the people have cause to wonder. With Rich’s personal laptop, the FBI wanted 66 years, a proxy for “never,” to produce data the bureau previously denied it even possessed. This year questions are emerging about the FBI’s handing of records related to Rich, possibly marked for destruction.
For coincidence theorists, there’s nothing to see here, but if anybody thought the deaths of Philip Haney and Seth Rich were straight-up assassinations it would be hard to blame them. It’s long past time to find out.
Back in 1976, Congress established the House Select Committee on Assassinations to investigate the murders of President John F. Kennedy and Martin Luther King. Fifty years later, it’s time to establish a new committee to investigate the shooting deaths of Philip Haney and Seth Rich, and the attempted assassination of Donald Trump in Pennsylvania. The people have a right to know, and this could be the breakthrough against deep state power moving forward.
El Al's evacuation flights from Dubai to Israel canceled after UAE fails to grant landing permits to Israeli airlines, leaving approximately 10,000 Israelis seeking to return home.
El Al's evacuation flights from Dubai to Israel have been canceled after Israeli airlines failed to receive permission to land in the United Arab Emirates.
The cancellation comes after the Transportation Ministry announced earlier on Friday that rescue flights operated by Israeli carriers will begin departing Dubai for Ben Gurion Airport during the day, though departures are expected to face delays due to logistical challenges.
"Following coordination with all relevant parties, it was agreed that flights operated by Israeli airlines from Dubai to Israel will begin on Friday, October 2," the Ministry stated. "However, due to necessary preparations and required security coordination, delays are expected in the departure of repatriation flights from Dubai."
The Transportation Ministry added that it is "continuing to work with all relevant parties, both in Israel and abroad, to enable the flights to operate as soon as possible. Israeli citizens currently in Dubai should remain in contact with their respective airlines and follow their instructions and updates."
The announcement followed a last-minute decision by the United Arab Emirates to revoke landing permits for the evacuation flights.
According to Finance Ministry estimates, approximately 10,000 Israeli citizens are currently trying to return to Israel. These include Israelis staying in Dubai as well as passengers stranded in various countries in the East, including Thailand and India.
In light of the situation, Finance Minister Bezalel Smotrich instructed senior ministry officials on Thursday evening to immediately allocate the full budget required by the Transportation Ministry to finance the rescue operations.
The Finance Ministry is currently completing the necessary arrangements to transfer the funds and ensure the flights can operate without further financial impediment.
