You'll read something like this on any site that covers travel to the middle east: "Note that if your passport shows evidence of travel to Israel you will be denied entry to the UAE
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if customs and the coast guard handles the security, then tell me why longshoreman have colluded with drug smugglers before. that would be completely pointless if security is completely out of their hands. but the fact is the customs and the coast guard aren't completely responsible for security. the company and the employees can provide aid for getting around the system. and with the system in the us that already offers almost no protection at all from bringing in.... anything... (which is a much bigger problem clearly) why hand it over to one of only a handful of countries that recognized the taliban, and clearly has a 'no jews' policy even after the holocaust, even after munich, even after 9/11--doesn't that conflict with the ideas of being free trade/anti-terror?
i doubt anybody handles their ports without incident. nuclear materials made their way through dubai to pakistan. that sounds like an incident. maybe dubai ports world is the best, safest port operator in the world but the policies of their parent company suggest we are tempting fate.
if the uae wants ME to take them seriously as a modern country, why would i be rejected entry into the country if i happened to have spent the previous day in tel aviv? isn't that completely fucking silly? the country is too immature to be given this much responsibility. they're still under a mindset from the dark ages. that really bugs me. if the usa is going to let the uae have this contract, is it too much to ask them in return to remove one of their most eyebrow raising policies? egypt did... LONG AGO.
i doubt anybody handles their ports without incident. nuclear materials made their way through dubai to pakistan. that sounds like an incident. maybe dubai ports world is the best, safest port operator in the world but the policies of their parent company suggest we are tempting fate.
if the uae wants ME to take them seriously as a modern country, why would i be rejected entry into the country if i happened to have spent the previous day in tel aviv? isn't that completely fucking silly? the country is too immature to be given this much responsibility. they're still under a mindset from the dark ages. that really bugs me. if the usa is going to let the uae have this contract, is it too much to ask them in return to remove one of their most eyebrow raising policies? egypt did... LONG AGO.
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