Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu was quick to seize the opportunity to associate himself with the heroics of Israelis who helped stop a FlyDubai co-pilot from crashing a plane bound for Tel Aviv. As more details emerge about the dramatic events aboard Flight FZ1073 from Dubai, the incident risks backfiring on him as it becomes a key political battleground just three weeks before a tight Israeli election. The attempted hijacker, Hamam al-Hammami, 29, is a citizen of Oman — a country that doesn’t have diplomatic relations with Israel — and had a history of engaging with radical views that saw him dismissed from a previous job, it was reported.
As Israel marks the third anniversary of one of its biggest security failures, the Hamas attack of Oct. 7, 2023, opposition leaders and a broad array of commentators are arguing that there are similarities between the two events.
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