"usual routine task"

Balázs in Hungary sent me this (I cite with his permission): "you might be interested in this piece. I'm pretty sure it's not covered outside of Hungary. Two israeli planes (or drones) were spotted on the 17th of march in the vicinity of the international airport of Budapest. They approached the airport two times, and then buzzed off. Somehow it was immediately apparent that these planes were Israeli, and that turned out to be true. A picture is published here (), this is in the newspaper that came out with the story, a shitty, rightish news outlet. I'm quite sure the picture was not taken during the incursion. The type of the planes is said to be "Nahshon Shavit" which is a transport aircraft based on gulfstream(?). And now the interesting part: the Foreign ministry immediately said it had only passed down the israeli request to the National Transportation Authority. WTF??? Israel is neither a NATO member nor a military ally of Hungary, as far as I (and most other Hungarians) know. The NTA is a very low level authority in this regard. The Hungarian PM (Gordon Bajnai, a ruling class hitman) ordered an immediate investigation at the Foreign, Defense and Transportation ministries. The Defense didn't have any information about this. (Hungarian military is like Lebanese military :) ) Now they know that the planes were conducting "approach and overfly" practice at the airport, and that it was the Foreign that had given them diplomatic clearance. WTF??? According to the israeli ambassador, Aliza Bin-Noun, the planes were doing a "usual routine task", that's why only the Foreign and the NTA were involved. WTF??? Of course she right away accused the newspaper with anti israel bias for publishing this news(!!!). This is an implicit allegation of anti semitism in Hungarian context but it is unjust int his case. True this paper is sometimes at the edges of anti semitism. The explicit question whether there is a military alliance or accord or whatever between Hungary and Israel wasn't answered. The PM, concluding the investigation, "couldn't remember". again: WTF??? The investigation anyway didn't find anything problematic :)The israeli ambassador later "clarified" that these planes weren't spy planes but military planes. What a relief. She accused the "far right media" of stirring this case. "Far right" in Hungary is more or less equivalent to "anti-semitic" (at least in the mainstream media language), but the major rightish media is simply rightish, not far right. She also said that the planes visited Bulgaria and Rumania. They practiced in Varna too. My private thoughts about the case is that we have a puppet regime here in Hungary :) and that the distance and terrain en route to Iran is similar to this. Varna, on the other hand is similar to the seaports of the Levant and North Africa."