Is Dubai Travel Kosher?
The game of tit for tat continues in the Middle East. This time United Arab Emirates officials barred Israeli tennis players from competing in Dubai's Tennis Championships. Their rationalization is based on "recent events in the region" that potentially could "put at risk the players and the many tennis fans of different nationalities that we have here in the UAE."
The Simon Wiesenthal Center, an international Jewish human rights organization, has fired back with an e-mail asking its 400,000 members and the international Jewish community to nix any vacay plans to Dubai. SWC officials say the travel advisory will lift when the government of Dubai drops its security concerns. This could be sooner than we think. Apparently today, the UAE has given a permit entry to Israeli tennis player, Andy Ram.
Our only question is, uhh when hasn't there been any "recent events in the region?" We're of the Jewish persuasion and spent a long weekend in the city otherwise known as "Las Vegas on Crack" and came back safely in one piece. Dubai is a "don't ask, don't tell" kind of place. Truthfully, we never found ourselves late night in a hookah bar debating the intifada.
The only time we gave pause was upon entering the country when our passports were seized for almost an hour, but then again everyone's passports were collected and we're pretty sure we weren't flying El Al. Everyone play some tennis already and go on and overpay for everything!
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