OMG: Passengers on Air France flight asked to pay for fuel in Damascus

This, fellow Israelis, is why our government tells us to avoid flights in, to, from or over hostile countries (Hat Tip: Bad Blue). The plane, heading from Paris to Lebanon’s capital, diverted amid tensions near the Beirut airport on Wednesday. Low on fuel, it instead landed in Damascus, the capital of neighboring Syria, where a civil war is raging.An Air France spokesman explained Friday that the