If this is true, it's a very interesting development. i searched around and could not find any other reference to it, which struck me as odd.
On Sun, Mar 23, 2014 at 5:45 PM, Joseph Catron <[email protected]> wrote: > Interesting: > > As the United States begins implementing travel restrictions on Russian > officials involved in the military occupation and annexation of Crimea, > there are signs that the State Department has been quietly denying visas to > Israeli military and intelligence officials in accordance with a separate > set of U.S. laws. > > In recent weeks, a number of Israeli news publications have reported an > increase in the denial of visa requests to Israeli youth, military, and > intelligence officials. Much of the reporting has focused on speculation > that the restrictions are a move by the Obama administration to thwart > Israel's entry into the Visa Waiver Program ... > > > http://mondoweiss.net/2014/03/imposing-sanctions-officials.html > > That's a broad overview, which covers a couple of different categories of > travelers (defense and security personnel, versus young tourists and/or > petty con artists). Here's something specifically on the former: > > Ironically, some of the defense officials who were denied entry to the > United States during the last few weeks were supposed to discuss with > American companies on exports from the US to Israel (funded by the military > aid money), and defense sources said that if the US does not allow their > entry they would cancel planned transactions. > > > http://www.israeldefense.com/?CategoryID=475&ArticleID=2786 > > Yeah, send back our damn money. That'll show us. > > -- > "Hige sceal þe heardra, heorte þe cenre, mod sceal þe mare, þe ure mægen > lytlað." > > _______________________________________________ > pen-l mailing list > [email protected] > https://lists.csuchico.edu/mailman/listinfo/pen-l > > -- Robert Naiman Policy Director Just Foreign Policy www.justforeignpolicy.org [email protected] (202) 448-2898, extension 1.
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