Who do you think? Maybe you need to buy your own bridges.
Well, either the pilot or Corp made the decision. Does it matter who exactly? No. The law of God was Broken. The law of Israel was broken. A group of 70+ passengers representing 15% of Israeli society was thoroughly besmirched in the Israeli and Global media. But CM, you came today to buy some bridges.
CM, I have no idea who you are or what your background is. I can only surmise that you are Jewish and was/is observant to some level.
We Chareidim do not impose the Torah on anyone in Israel or the diaspora. If a Jew decides to turn on his TV at home on Shabbos, then we can only ache, but that is between him and the Ribbono Shel Olam.
But, as inscribed in the laws of the democratically elected secular state, the Shabbos is a national day of rest. The elected government of the people has decided that the airline of the flag must keep this day of rest in a manner which appeases the chief rabbis and the religious courts.
(How can Israeli society expect the chareidim to heed the yet-unwritten-IDF-draft-law, while they are silent about ElAl breaking the law?)
CM, many American Jews can trace back 2-3-4 generations to the grandparent on the Lower East Side who was fired every Monday for not desecrating the holy Shabbos. Many recount annually at the Seder Table the story of a patriarch or matriarch who managed to keep one Shabbos or more during the harsh years of Hitlers Ghettos or Stalins Gulag. Many DDF'ers have spent years and even lifetimes handing out Shabbos Candles and making Kiddush in old age homes, hospitals and the countless Chabad houses that dot the globe. Shabbos, at least to 95% of the readers of these forums, is the single most important aspect of our lives.
Does it not bother you, deep down, CM, that the only country in the world today which does not respect the holy Shabbos is the "Jewish" state of Israel?
Does it not bother you, deep down, CM, that the only group opposed to the Shabbos today are our fellow (secular) Jews drinking Kool-Aid and buying bridges?
Did you have an ancestor who cared about the holy Shabbos? Who sacrificed something for it?
We don't ask for anything from the Jew haters in our midst. Go and transgress 612 of God's commandments, and do so in your own conscience. But never, for no reason, should you trample the holy Shabbos in public, the most recognizable bond between Jew and his creator.