Captain Mahmoud Hilmi, the Egyptian Air Force pilot who startled both Israel and the Arab world last January by defecting to Israel in his plane, told a press conference today that he did so because he opposed Egypt’s participation in the Yemen civil war.
Asked why he chose Israel, he replied: “I had two possibilities, an Arab country or Israel. The Arab countries are unstable, therefore I chose Israel.”
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