Israeli peace treaties with Jordan and Egypt have allowed Arab terrorists the opportunity to exploit open air spaces to attack airplanes, according to a study by Air Force Lt. Col. Ron Tuegeman. "It will be enough if the Palestinians acquire an anti-aircraft missile system--shoulder-fired missiles such as SA-7--to shut down Ben Gurion Airport and effectively halt the majority of Israeli air traffic," Tuegeman concluded.

"In any political-security agreement, Israel will not be able to concede sovereignty over its airspace to any neighboring Palestinian entity that will be established," he wrote in his research at Haifa University, the Fisher Brothers Institute for Air and Space Strategic Studies and Israel's National Defense College.