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The Arab boycott is reverberating throughout the United States, but the reason for the boycott — US sympathy and support to Israel — appears to continue to be ignored.The terrorism attacks of Sept. 11 also deeply effected US-Arab tourism, education and trade, which once strengthened ties between the US and the Arab world, despite quarrels over US support for Israel and other foreign affair disputes.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...

With due respect to all that has been recently said about Arab economic power and demands that they assume an international political role, it is important for us to realize that emotional words are one thing and cold reality something else. Though we may have manufactured for ourselves the impressive motto, "Glory, Glory to the Arabs," it only feeds the illusion of non-existent power and a role of no importance. I have had the opportunity to look closely at the statement issued by the United Nation's Economic and Social Committee for Western Asia (ESCWA), following its conference in Beirut last...

ABU DHABI, April 12 (IslamOnline) - The call for boycotting American products is spreading all over the Arab countries responding to American’s unfairly supporting the Israeli atrocities against Palestinians. It has been clearly noticed that great numbers of Arabs refuse to purchase any American product or to have anything to do with American restaurants. In the United Arab Emirates there is a serious call for boycotting American products, IslamOnline correspondent reported. The boycott is the least thing one can do to support his fellow Palestinians, Mahmoud Al-Ali, an Emirati civil servant, told IslamOnline Correspondent. He added that all Arab countries...