Posted on 07/15/2013 7:10:04 AM PDT by pabianice
Something’s not kosher with this airline.
Saudi Arabian Airlines is discriminating against Israeli citizens by refusing to fly them from US airports — even when passengers are simply looking to transfer in Saudi Arabia to another country, The Post has learned.
The airline’s Web site asks for citizenship to book a ticket but has no option on a drop-down menu for anyone holding an Israeli passport. The oversight doesn’t appear accidental — the drop-down menu is so thorough it even has an option for Antarctica.
“No city in the world has closer ties to Israel than we do, and yet Israeli citizens are being discriminated against right here at JFK. It’s not only illegal; it’s an affront to who we are,” said Public Advocate, and mayoral candidate, Bill de Blasio, who conducted a recent telephone sting on the Mideast nation’s airline.
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It used to be that Israeli immigration would give you an insert to stick in your passport if an Israeli visa stamp might prove inconvenient. A number of U.S. defense contractor personnel are Jewish and visit Israel and Saudi Arabia regularly on business. Most of the Saudis do not mind doing business with Jewish Americans, they feel they are getting the best that money can buy. The Saudis actually have a great deal of respect for the Israelis, and appreciate that they are keeping Iran off their backs, for now. The whole antisemitism shtick is boob-bait for the Arab bubbas.
At first my reaction was, why on earth would any Israeli want to fly on Camel Humper Airlines but then I remembered that 70% of Jews in the USA voted for a known communist American hating, Israel hating, White hating, Great Ape.
why is this news? saudi arabia is at war with israel. was the USA recognizing passports issued by mussolini in 1942?
Savages with petrodollars. Been that way for much too long.
Soon hopefully the U.S. will tell those moving tea towels what they can do with their oil & where.
I’m planning a visit to Israel later this year.
This is disgusting, but...the chances are slim nonexistent that I would try to buy a ticket on a muslim-owned airline if I had an Israeli passport.
It will be at least 3 1/2 years before that can happen.
“...after having to spend time in Riyadh.”
Did you even get to see much of anything outside of the Westerners Housing Compound you were probably living in?
I’ve heard that the Saudis don’t want Westerners interacting with their people. Not only that but I’d find it really hard to believe that, outside of some really nice westernized shopping malls and a couple of museums/historic sites, that there really much to do.
If you’d like to be on or off, please FR mail me.
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There go my vacation plans./s
Yet Saudi rich quietly go to Israel for their medical care and for that of their family members when they get a serious disease. What huge hypocrites the Moslems are. The know the Jewish state is heads taller than they are in every way and they’re just plain jealous.
No doubt about it.
Never forget who paid for “walks like a duck” to get into college either.
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