Saudi car spotted in Jaffa

[Solomon2]

Saudi car spotted in Jaffa
Businessman apparently drives from conservative kingdom to Israel
BY ELHANAN MILLER July 26, 2015, 4:39 pm

A Saudi car viewed in Jaffa, Friday, July 24, 2015 (Jacky Hugi Twitter account)

Elhanan Miller is the Arab affairs reporter for The Times of Israel

Cars with foreign license plates are rare enough in Israel, but the one spotted in Jaffa on Friday caused quite a stir.

Army Radio’s Arab Affairs reporter Jacky Hugi spotted a silver Mercedes parked near Jaffa’s Clock Tower bearing a Saudi license plate — a highly unusual, if not unprecedented sight in Israel. He quickly pulled out his camera, sharing the image on Twitter.

“The nuclear deal with Iran is starting to prove itself,” he wrote, in ironic reference to the shared concern over Iran’s nuclear project that has made unlikely private allies of Israel and Saudi Arabia.

Later, a Facebook friend notified Hugi that he had struck up a conversation with the driver in Jerusalem, and had learned that he was a Saudi businessman.

Hugi told the Times of Israel on Sunday that he had no further information on the car, but said that if the driver were given an exceptional entry visa to Israel, there’d be no reason for his car to be banned.

No response was available from the Transportation Ministry at time of publication.

 

[Pakistanisage]

Saudis have been in bed with Israelis since the assassination of King Faisal bin Abdulaziz...

 

[Solomon2]

Saudis have been in bed with Israelis since the assassination of King Faisal bin Abdulaziz...

Is that the "sage" thing to do - accuse people you despise of sleeping together, then sticking out your tongue? Are you still in elementary school?

 

[Nefarious]

Hope he gets out alive!

I know i'm terrible,

Thanks

 

[Falcon29]

How retarded, he could be a Palestinian who was a refugee in Saudi Arabia and got his vehicle there.

 

[OTTOMAN]

How retarded, he could be a Palestinian who was a refugee in Saudi Arabia and got his vehicle there.

or this could be a Saudi Car in Saudi Arabia or Saudi registration plate smuggled to Israel.
I would simply be reluctant to trust the news from unreliable source.

 

[Falcon29]

or this could be a Saudi Car in Saudi Arabia or Saudi registration plate smuggled to Israel.
I would simply be reluctant to trust the news from unreliable source.

The poor guy is a normal Palestinian whos family was expelled from Palestine and took refugee in Saudi Arabia. But these Israeli's will do anything to cause division in Arab world by projecting nonsense that this is Saudi official or saudi Israeli cooperation. Israelis will get all the cooperation they want once they go back to 67 borders. Palestinians will disarm if NATO protects Palestinian borders in an event of two state solution.

 

[Solomon2]

How retarded, he could be a Palestinian who was a refugee in Saudi Arabia and got his vehicle there.

The poor guy is a normal Palestinian whos family was expelled from Palestine and took refugee in Saudi Arabia...

Looks like Falcon29 is giving us a lesson in "Palestinian" thinking here: speculation not adequately squashed or given the slightest endorsement is forever after asserted to be absolute fact. (Mods please confirm Falcon29 is NOT my sock puppet.)

 

[Natan]

That's a rare sight around here.

 

[Pakistanisage]

Is that the "sage" thing to do - accuse people you despise of sleeping together, then sticking out your tongue? Are you still in elementary school?

Sage has to speak the " TRUTH " and let the chips fall where they may...

Truth hurts.....

 

[Metanoia]

It belongs to an American working in Saudi. He is there on a vacation.

 

[Saif al-Arab]

Saudis have been in bed with Israelis since the assassination of King Faisal bin Abdulaziz...

What does "in bed" mean here?

Does that mean not having official diplomatic relations, not recognizing Israel, not allowing Israelis to enter KSA, being at war with Israel (1948 Arab-Israeli war) etc.

What has Israel ever done for KSA or vice versa?

The position of KSA and the Arab world is crystal clear. Israel needs to fully recognize Palestine and return to the pre-1967 borders etc.

Arab Peace Initiative - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

If that occurs the Arab world will be ready to embrace Israel and initiate diplomatic relations (official). Right now only Jordan, Egypt and Morocco have that if I recall.

It would be a good thing as Arabs and Jews are neighbors, cousins and could easily benefit from each other. More importantly a declaration of peace would be the best news for Palestinians in a very long time.

Whether it happens depends on the regimes in place and the people. It's their choice.

In any case, this is thread number 1 billion about KSA on PDF (what a thread, a car with Saudi Arabian license plates has been spotted in Jaffa!) and the businessman might be a Palestinian Saudi Arabian as there are well over 300.000 of such people in KSA. Or he might be a local Saudi Arabian with ancestral ties to Palestine. There are many, many of such people too.

Or it could belong to someone else entirely. You know, foreigners in KSA are allowed to rent cars, lol.

Sage has to speak the " TRUTH " and let the chips fall where they may...

Truth hurts.....

What hurts? Nobody is hurt by anything here. I have nothing against establishing diplomatic and cordial relations with Israel once the Palestinian question gets settled. 21% of Israel's population is Arab and well over 50% of the Israeli Jews are Arab Jews. The hostility is bound in politics and fairly recent. Arab-Jewish relations have mostly been cordial throughout history outside of a few periods of tensions in history. All this changed less than 100 years ago for reasons that we are all aware of.

In fact I tend to believe that the Arab world and the morons ruling it should establish official ties with Israel as official dialogue/mutual recognition is the only step to take if you want to solve a conflict like the one in place.

If the brightest heads among the 30-40 million big Arab diaspora in Latin America (alone) were to rule the Arab world tomorrow it would improve tenfold within a few years. Sadly the morons ruling it are hellbent on destroying pretty much everything.

It belongs to an American working in Saudi. He is there on a vacation.

Link bro? I have not researched anything on my own. Just seen this "breaking news" thread on PDF.

 

[Pakistanisage]

What does "in bed means" here?

Does that mean not having official diplomatic relations, not recognizing Israel, not allowing Israelis to enter KSA, being at war with Israel (1948 Arab-Israeli war) etc.

What has Israel ever done for KSA or vice versa?

The position of KSA and the Arab world is crystal clear. Israel needs to fully recognize Palestine and return to the pre-1967 borders etc.

Arab Peace Initiative - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

If that occurs the Arab world will be ready to embrace Israel and initiate diplomatic relations (official). Right now only Jordan, Egypt and Morocco have that if I recall.

It would be a good thing as Arabs and Jews are neighbors, cousins and could easily benefit from each other. More importantly a declaration of peace would be the best news for Palestinians in a very long time.

Whether it happens depends on the regimes in place and the people. It's their choice.

In any case, this is thread number 1 billion about KSA on PDF (what a thread, a car with Saudi Arabian license plates has been spotted in Jaffa!) and the businessman might be a Palestinian Saudi Arabian as there are well over 300.000 of such people in KSA. Or he might be a local Saudi Arabian with ancestral ties to Palestine. There are many, many of such people too.

Or it could belong to someone else entirely. You know, foreigners in KSA are allowed to rent cars, lol.



What hurts? Nobody is hurt by anything here. I have nothing against establishing diplomatic and cordial relations with Israel once the Palestinian question gets settled. 21% of Israel's population is Arab and well over 50% of the Israeli Jews are Arab Jews. The hostility is bound in politics and fairly recent. Arab-Jewish relations have mostly been cordial throughout history outside of a few periods of tensions in history. All this changed less than 100 years ago for reasons that we are all aware of.

In fact I tend to believe that the Arab world and the morons ruling it should establish official ties with Israel as official dialogue/mutual recognition is the only step to take if you want to solve a conflict like the one in place.

If the brightest heads among the 30-40 million big Arab diaspora in Latin America (alone) were to rule the Arab world tomorrow it would improve tenfold within a few years. Sadly the morons ruling it are hellbent on destroying pretty much everything.



Link bro? I have not researched anything on my own. Just seen this thread.

Bro, I have no issues with KSA having a cordial diplomatic relationship with Israel.

What I do find distasteful is to have one Policy that is Public and another that is Private and diametrically opposite of the Public stance.

Heck, if you read my previous Posts, you will find that I am the biggest proponent and supporter of Pakistan having a Diplomatic relationship with Israel with embassies of both countries in Islamabad and Tel Aviv.

Israel is not an enemy of Pakistan , directly.

If Pakistan can have a full Diplomatic relationship with our Arch Enemy India then there is no legal justification for Pakistan to not recognize Israel.

Sorry if my previous comments offended you. I was just trying to yank @Solomon2 's Chain....

Is that the "sage" thing to do - accuse people you despise of sleeping together, then sticking out your tongue? Are you still in elementary school?

Who says I despise Israel or its Citizens. Disagreeing with a Country's Foreign Policy does not amount to hatred of their Citizens. And I certainly have NO reason to despise my SAUDI BROTHERS. Au Contraire, I love my Brothers/Sisters from KSA...

 

[Saif al-Arab]

Bro, I have no issues with KSA having a cordial diplomatic relationship with Israel.

What I do find distasteful is to have one Policy that is Public and another that is Private and diametrically opposite of the Public stance.

Heck, if you read my previous Posts, you will find that I am the biggest proponent and supporter of Pakistan having a Diplomatic relationship with Israel with embassies of both countries in Islamabad and Tel Aviv.

Israel is not an enemy of Pakistan , directly.

If Pakistan can have a full Diplomatic relationship with our Arch Enemy India then there is no legal justification for Pakistan to not recognize Israel.

Sorry if my previous comments offended you. I was just trying to yank @Solomon2 's Chain....

The thing is that there are no official diplomatic relations between KSA and Israel nor are the "ties" cordial by any means. Don't let the common concern for the "Arab" Mullah's ruling Iran fool you here.

Also I am not offended by anything on the internet. No worries here.

Anyway I am pretty sure that even countries that have no official diplomatic relations with country x or y have ties to some extend. Just using other "channels" or middlemen to get their messages across. It's pretty much impossible nowadays to ignore any country completely. Look at North Korea for instance.

Not sure if you speak Arabic but here a Saudi Arabian woman (official) rebukes absurd Israeli claims in the UN for all to see earlier this year.

People who say that the relations are cordial or even close are fooling nobody but themselves.

@Pakistanisage

My friend in the case of the Arab world, MENA region and the Muslim world it's very important to distinguish between the people and the regime. In KSA the common man and woman is not responsible for any government policies. I am by no means a fan of the rulers in the Arab world (overall) or systems in place. Just remember to make the distinction between 450 million Arabs and a few select ruling families and their policies.

That's a rare sight around here.

Can Saudi Arabian citizens or Arab citizens not from Egypt, Jordan and Morocco visit Israel? For instance the Haram al-Sharif? The old city of Jerusalem is de facto controlled by the Israeli regime but internationally it is recognized as occupied Palestinian territory.

Or do they have to travel to the West Bank and from there enter Jerusalem? I could easily visit using my French passport but I am just curious here. I remember reading about this topic some time ago but I forgot the exact rules.

My impression is that Israel has not banned Arabs or people from states that do not recognize Israel from traveling to Israel. Is that right?

 

[bsruzm]

I feel sorry for this Yolomon guy...