Arab boycott affecting US, though its cause is not understood

Arab News ^ | 9 jul 02 | Barbara Ferguson

[pabianice]

The Arab boycott is reverberating throughout the United States

I know. I have been unable to buy any more deseased camels at WalMart. Sigh.

[LenS]

That being said, the Arab world is an economic joke outside of oil. A boycott by them of US goods is beyond trivial.

[Psycho_Bunny]

The Saudis, for example, used to flock to Disney World on Saudi Arabia Airlines’ weekly flights from Jeddah to Orlando. Now demand has evaporated and the flights have been canceled.

If Arabs truly stopped coming to the US...

and that fact hurt Disney in any way...

I'd consider two birds having been killed with one stone.

[Minnesoootan]

Less we get to fingerprint and document,I suppose?

The State Department is working to change the US image in the Arab world

that's the part of the Arab news article I don't like,should be the other way around?

[tomkat]

The Arab boycott is reverberating throughout the United States yadayadayada ...

foflmao !

to quote some of our resident joooooos:

Let's Rollowitz !

[Always Right]

My camel grooming business is down 90% since this boycott. We must give in to the Arabs demands, it is killing me.

[Don Myers]

And, we need to stop buying their oil.

[Gaston]

I thought at first that we should boycott the Arabs. But after giving it some thought I realize that except for oil their technological advances stopped at the weaver's loom. I wasn't going to buy any Persian rugs, but now I know I won't.

[Redcloak]

There's a boycott? I hadn't noticed. Let's hope that they don't try harder to get our attention; maybe doing something like ordering all Saudi nationals to return home from the US. Yeah... That might do it. If there's any Saudis lurking, don't suggest that to your government. Ordering all of your people to leave the US would cripple the us. Please don't suggest that! I hope that I didn't lay it on too thick.

[Salgak]

I suspect our oil supplies will last longer. . .(evil grin)

[Anamensis]

There's a boycott? I didn't even notice! LOL!!

[He Rides A White Horse]

The Saudis, for example, used to flock to Disney World on Saudi Arabia Airlines’ weekly flights from Jeddah to Orlando. Now demand has evaporated and the flights have been canceled.

Visa applications to the US have also fallen, especially after stringent background checks that take up to three weeks were introduced for visa applicants from certain Muslim countries, including Saudi Arabia.

...and this is bad, how?

[He Rides A White Horse]

And, we need to stop buying their oil.

....or just take it. Let them finance the War on Terror.