> If you mean to imply that Europe is somehow going to shoot down their planes if they fly over that’s obviously absurd.
Shoot down? No.
Force them down? There's precedent. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Evo_Morales_grounding_incident
Shoot down? No.
Force them down? There's precedent. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Evo_Morales_grounding_incident
One can also fly from Israel to NY over international waters only adding some 400km to the route.
No, you can't. You'd go through either Spanish or Moroccan airspace; the strait is 7.7 nautical miles across.