16 countries forbid admission to Israeli passport holders. Where are the protests?

The protests arent just about banning particular states. Trump has a right as POTUS to carry out his own immigration policy. Its a dumb one though with massive holes considering he has conveniently missed out obvious countries whose citizens were involved in 9//11 andincluded ones which were not.

In terms of these restrictions, then it has to do with the conflict between the Arabs and Israel that has been going on since 1948. Several of these countries have been at war, so they are no friends to each other. Its not as though Israelis are interested in going there.

You missed out the fact that Israel has declared several of the countries enemy states and forbids israelis from going there since 1954.

It now designates 9 countries as enemies of Israel: Afghanistan, Iran, Pakistan, Iraq, Lebanon, Libya, Sudan, Somalia, Syria, and Yemen as well as the Hamas-administered Gaza Strip. Hardly surpising they reply in kind. The other countries are all Arab League and continue their boycott, especially as the situation over the occupied territories is unresolved.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Arab_League_boycott_of_Israel

As for protests for these countries paying state visist, then am not sure they are awared that honour? Cant remember any in recent times. the Saudis in 2007 There were protests at the time.

http://www.ft.com/cms/s/0/7ef6371a-881e-11dc-9464-0000779fd2ac.html?ft_site=falcon&desktop=true

It has been pointed out already that they do not respond in kind. They do allow travel from Israel under any circumstances, whereas permission to enter Israel is based on permission (visa) ergo the same as most countries with slightly tighter restrictions.

Let me get this right.

Because Saudi do *****y stuff we should stop selling them arms.

But

Because Saudi do *****y stuff there is no need to protest their ban on Israelis traveling to their country.

See the problem with that?

FYI I support Trumps policy.

Yes, we generally don't protest *****y things that occur on a regular and almost expected basis; because if we started protesting every *****y thing Saudi does we'd have rather little time for anything else - not to mention Saudi policy's global impact <<< US policy's global impact.

Illegitimate*

What about all the other illegal settlements? Israel threw a strop when the UN called them out on it. Are welcome? Have you seen what happens to them? Pure and simple discriminations against black people. So Israel is also a racist state along with the ethnic cleansing of Arabs/Palestinians

Thats one way to explain away the lefts blatant hypocrisy i suppose.

You cannot take individual cases and claim it is national policy. Israel remains the only nation in the Middle East that is a democracy, which gives all its citizens equal rights under the law.

Where are the mass protests in London, etc. in light of this ban on Jews? Where's the huge petition to stop the leaders of these 16 countries paying state visits to Britain?

Since the Oslo Accords and the Camp David Talks, Israel have continued to build illegal settlements on Palestinian land. The old age argument that Israel existed as 'Israel' in the bible is no longer valid.

Israel needs to realise that the reason why they are the most hated country in the Middle East is because they do not have the right to exist as a country, a democracy that not only engages in activities that are illegal (i.e. illegal settlements) but also creating anguish between their communities and the rest of the Middle East with their propaganda. I am not being anti-Semitic - I just believe there are better ways to go about things.

Are you referring to the my reply to @queen-bee?

Again, you have provided no evidence to suggest why Israel, as a nation, has no right to exist. Many nations have abhorrent domestic and foreign policies that breach countless international treaties but the international community does not put their existence into question.

Why then is Israel being cast aside as an exception?

What evidence do you have to support this?



You cannot take individual cases and claim it is national policy. Israel remains the only nation in the Middle East that is a democracy, which gives all its citizens equal rights under the law.

Illegitimate*

What about all the other illegal settlements? Israel threw a strop when the UN called them out on it. Are welcome? Have you seen what happens to them? Pure and simple discriminations against black people. So Israel is also a racist state along with the ethnic cleansing of Arabs/Palestinians

Israel is an illegitimate state. Stop building illegal settlements. Stop ethnic cleansing.stop racism towards Ethiopians and other black migrants.

We sell weapons to several of these countries.

Who in government thinks that it's a good idea, to sell weapons to these countries that obviously hate Israel and Israelis.

Does anybody think these things through or is it a case of "if they will pay, we don't ask questions".

But hey I may be wrong maybe these are peaceful friendly people and they can be trusted not to use these weapons against Israel or the West and will certainly make sure the weapons never fall in to the hands of any terrorist groups.

Again, you have provided no evidence to suggest why Israel, as a nation, has no right to exist. Many nations have abhorrent domestic and foreign policies that breach countless international treaties but the international community does not put their existence into question. Why then is Israel being cast aside as an exception?