The Saudi Embassy in Washington said rumors regarding passenger flight restrictions on Saudi Arabian Airlines were “completely false.” Jews most certainly can go to Saudi Arabia, and Fred Wolfson, who is Jewish, is the only non-Saudi to ever receive their highest medal of honor -- he captured the terrorist who blew up a Saudi passenger plane.
There are several countries that do not allow you to fly to or from Israel for political reasons just as Americans can not fly to Cuba from America.
If you visit cuba, you go via Canada or Mexico and Cuba doesn't stamp your passport ...there are ways around anything --- AND if you have been to Israel you will notice that Jews and Muslims get along just fine there -- just as Catholics and Protestants do even in most parts of Ireland. How often do you hear of inter-religious problems in Haifa, for example? Muslims are directed in the Qur'an to protect Jewish and Christian Holy Places, and the Oath of the Prophet says that interfering with Jews and Christians religious practices is a complete violation of all that Islam represents. So there :-)\
Did you know that Jews are banned from entering Saudi Arabia?
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While all religious minorities (including Muslims) experience religious freedom in Israel, the Muslim country of Saudi Arabia makes it illegal for a Jew to even enter the country in transit! (Jew here is defined as: someone carrying ANY Jewish object, someone having a Jewish sounding name, or someone with an Israeli stamp in their passport.)
While Israel is the home and protectorate of the B'Hai Temple, the Dome of the Rock, the Western Wall, and many Churches, surrounding Arab countries have been known to destroy religious objects or shrines that are Jewish or Christian in nature.
In 2000, following the outbreak of the Intifada, the Palestinians utterly destroyed Joseph's tomb, one of the holiest tombs in Jewish tradition.
How can Israel and the Jewish people trust it's holiest sites to people who have shown time and again that they will not protect them?
While Israel is the home and protectorate of the B'Hai Temple, the Dome of the Rock, the Western Wall, and many Churches, surrounding Arab countries have been known to destroy religious objects or shrines that are Jewish or Christian in nature.
In 2000, following the outbreak of the Intifada, the Palestinians utterly destroyed Joseph's tomb, one of the holiest tombs in Jewish tradition.
How can Israel and the Jewish people trust it's holiest sites to people who have shown time and again that they will not protect them?
Saudi Arabia did join the 19th Century recently making it legal for women to drive in the last year or so.
Huh.