Trump’s visit to Israel fell through because welcoming him into any self-respecting country at this point would be a disgrace. It’s very sad that the US is making a laughing stock out of itself on the world arena because of this buffoon. There are many pressing issues to discuss, yet everybody is fixating on strange antics of a reality TV star with lousy hair.
Trump Won’t Go to Israel
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Trump (not Netanyahu) “postponed” the trip to Israel.Trump stated that
Here’s a link to an interesting article by David Horowitz titled “Who’s the crazy one?”
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Here’s a link to what is probably the best article I have read on the reactions to Trump’s “racist” proposal.
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Dan, I can’t believe you are pro-Trump. I totally had you pegged for a Rubio supporter.
“Rosenberg pointed out that there are currently 16 countries in the world which completely ban the entry of Israelis. No one is permitted to enter the following nations with an Israeli passport: Algeria, Bangladesh, Brunei, Iran, Iraq, Kuwait, Lebanon, Libya, Malaysia, Oman, Pakistan, Saudi Arabia, Sudan, Syria, the United Arab Emirates and Yemen.”
“This is the already declared position of Mahmoud Abbas, the acting president of the Palestinian Authority, who has unequivocally announced that there will be no Jews – not one, not ever – in the nation he hopes will arise: Palestine.”
Thank you, I learned something new from this article.
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Relatedly:
What really shouldn’t be surprising is this: the plans he’s proposing are already policy — not just in the US, but worldwide, particularly in Western/Anglosphere/Five-Eyes countries.
Post 9/11, visa and immigration policy to the US has been targeted directly against Muslims by targeting countries with a significant Muslim population. Muslim countries saw their requirements for getting US visas tightened, in some cases to impossible standards. If you were a 18–30 Muslim male with a passport from a relatively “underdeveloped” country, God help you try and get to the States….
The United States wasn’t the only one that tightened up immigration regulations for Muslims following 9/11. In 2003, Canada suddenly decided that Malaysians now need visas to enter the country (they didn’t previously), yet shut down their offices in KL — so any Malaysians hoping to head to Canada have to go to Singapore. Australia is tightening immigration and social services as a direct response to ISIL. Visas for Europe, including the UK, have also been harder.
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I can’t say about other countries, but this is signally untrue in what concerns Canada.
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Yeah, that seems like something she should have links to, since most people don’t know how to find this information:
announcement
April 30, 2012 — Effective April 30, 2012, the Visa and Immigration Sections at the Canadian Embassies in Germany (Berlin) and Japan (Tokyo) and the Canadian High Commissions in Malaysia (Kuala Lumpur) and Bangladesh (Dhaka) are closed to the public….
Applicants previously serviced by the visa office in Kuala Lumpur should now submit their application to the visa office in Singapore.
I don’t know if “submit the application” is the effectively the same as “travel to Singapore to get a visa.” The paragraph from that article seems misleading as it gives the impression they shut down the visa office in 2003.
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Malaysians might have difficulties entering Canada. But Muslims most certainly don’t.
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It seems that those who are in charge of “vetting” prospective entrants are confused.
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As an immigrant, I can say that honest people who enter the country in good faith and refuse to lie find the process difficult. But people who are willing to lie, falsify papers and come under false pretenses find it quite easy to enter the country. This happens because the customs and border officials are not allowed to bring any initiative and any human touch to the process. They just ask rote questions from a form and are not allowed to deviate from it. And that’s not a way to sift out the crooks and the criminals.
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“This happens because the customs and border officials are not allowed to bring any initiative and any human touch to the process …”
Which of course would be lovely if it weren’t for the unsubtle matter of “pretexting”, in addition to practised attempts to harass people the inspectors simply don’t like for personal “reasons”, which includes doing it for “reasons” of social class and plainly ugly envy.
Canada does this and then has to use taxpayer money to pay for its abuses — here’s the story of a man whose business was destroyed by Canadian border services agents:
http://www.vancouversun.com/news/Wrongly+accused+Metro+Vancouver+collects+millions+from+Ottawa/10777527/story.html
I have no doubt that the United States does this sort of thing as well.
So I disagree about that point entirely — I believe there is far too much “human touch” in the process, and that the judgements “on the line” usually wind up putting people who have done nothing wrong through an ugly, dehumanising process at the least.
The victims aren’t always helpless, and after all, this story does have a happy ending.
Like many Canadians who would be better off somewhere else, now he should have the funds in hand to enjoy living elsewhere …
Why stick around when “the process is the punishment”?
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I offered my views on America, Trump and the rest of the gang back on September 14th. They have changed very little — for better or worse — despite ill-informed or emotion-based mockery by both parties, the media and foreign observers.
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This position has always been openly stated by the Palestinian Authority. The “two-state solution” that all the “progressive” pro-Palestinian haters-of-Israel in academia, feminist circles, and the left in general are condemning Israel for not accepting immediately on Palestinian terms would result in these two states:
An Israel reduced geographically to militarily indefensible borders and forced to accept the “return” of millions of so-called Palestinians who never even lived in Israel (They’re the descendants of Palestinians who left Israel after it became a state in 1948) and who from a demographic standpoint would destroy Israel as a Jewish nation.
A “Palestine” that has not a single Jew within its borders, has leaders who favor the death penalty for homosexuals, would be allowed a powerful standing military, and has in its charter the stated total destruction of Israel as a nation-state.
How can Israel be so uncivilized that it refuses to willingly commit suicide like much of the world demands?
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My god, you genocidal maniacs are so fond of collective punishment, aren’t you? Isis kills gays so we’ll punish Palestinian civilians by keeping them in cages.
It’s scary that a person like you could be my neighbor.
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Every scarier, Stringer Boy — I used to live in Riverside and Work in San Bernadino, which IS your neighborhood!
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According to an article today at Alegmeiner titled Israelis Refused Entry Into Jordan With ‘Jewish Paraphernalia’ in Luggage,
Phylacteries are
But, of course, Jordan has had multiple terrorist attacks by Jews so that’s different and Trump is a scumbag.
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Tangentially An Israeli passport collector talks about his collection of passports
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“There are many pressing issues to discuss, yet everybody is fixating on strange antics of a reality TV star with lousy hair.”
That’s as maybe, but of course this “reality TV star” is running for President of the United States and has a real-estate business which is not afraid of tearing up the Scottish coastline to make golf courses out of (see: Menie Estate).
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It feels like everybody and their uncle is running for president on the Republican side.
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