Problems for Israeli nuke scientists traveling to US not new
Last week, I reported on the problems Israeli nuclear scientists were having with obtaining visas to visit the United States for conferences and the like. Roger Simon reports that those problems did not start recently. This morning (Pacific time) I was able to reach Dr. Alfassi in his office at Ben Gurion University in the Negev. Apparently, my report — and the newspaper’s — was inaccurate. The professor informed me that while it was extremely difficult for scientists who worked at Dimona to obtain U.S. visas, this was not a new policy of the Obama administration. This problem has been going on since 9/11.Okay, one thing we can't blame on Obama.
Alfassi explained that formerly he and other scientists were able to go through travel agents to obtain visas to the U.S. Now they have to go personally to the U.S. embassy in Tel Aviv. He knows of at least one case of a scientist who was not able to attend a conference in this country because of this system. European scientists, he said, did not have this problem.
Dr. Alfassi was quite cordial in answering my questions and I thank him.
posted by Carl in Jerusalem @ 2:45 PM
2 Comments:
Obama could've rescind or lighten up the policy. It's still old-fashioned double standard time.
Obtaining visa's to the U.S. for Israelis (period)is nothing new.
This is a little trick by successive administrations to tighten the noose.
The formula to bring Israel to her knees by friends who spew BS about how Israel is such a special ally makes me sick. Terrorist nations fill our college campuses and the streets of our cities and in their pockets contain a visa.
I have said it before and I will say it again, there are many ways to stick it to a Jew to which Jews have had to endure throughout time. When we begin to think we are embarking on an era where we can finally take a sigh and a breath, the world takes that leash and shortens it just a little more.
Those that do it because they truly disdain our very existence is understandable. However, those that claim to be friends who jerk the leash for reasons they rationalize are the ones who deep down way back in their subconscious are the ones we really need to worry about.
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