Saudi Arabia proves again that there are two laws: One for Israel, and one for the rest of the world.
WASHINGTON – It’s official. Saudi Arabia will not end its boycott of Israel despite its membership in the World Trade Organization, a body that prohibits such trade barriers between member states.
The Saudi ambassador to America told a luncheon at the Brookings Institution on Monday that his country’s primary boycott of Israel is a “matter of national sovereignty,” according to a transcript of the event provided to The New York Sun.
Of course, from here, the question should be “Will the WTO take action on this?”
But we already know the answer.
Prince Turki’s remarks were so contentious that the Saudi Embassy requested that the question-and-answer session following his statement at Brookings be made retroactively off the record, according to a Brookings press assistant who responded to a query for the full transcript.
But you know it doesn’t matter. No action will be taken, regardless of what was said, because the oil ticks have more than enough votes in their pockets.
What time is it, kids? That’s right. It’s Israeli Double Standard Time.
The entire Arab League should have been booted from the UN in 1948 when it sent armies into Israel.
The rules of this game have been in place for longer than you and I have been alive, Meryl.
Israeli Double Standard Time overlaps with Islamic Double Standard Time, under which Islamic countries that openly subordinate the Universal Declaration of Human Rights to Shari’a are nonetheless welcomed to serve on international human rights bodies.
It’s not so much that the Saudi tried to make the exchange “retroactively” off the record. It’s that the Brookings Institute acceede to his request. Phooey on them.
I think every sovereign country should make its own decisions on this without external meddling.
This case, however, is unique in that Saudi is as said, part of the WTO. Before its admission, the Saudis said that the boycott would still continue. Yet, we were admitted anyway.
No action will be taken against Saudi.
It’s not like boycott is severely damaging the Israeli economy. Even if Israeli goods were available in the Kingdom, nobody would buy it.
It’s things like this that make me think perhaps “peak oil” might not be so bad after all, if it does turn out to be true.
A world with completely depleted Saudi oil would have a host of discomforts for all of us. It would however provide some good hearty belly laughs to see the Saudi Entity make a go of it with just their tourism industry, and the worlds best stocked used Rolls Royce dealerships.
If the rulers of teh Wahhabist Entity can no longer hand out bribes, “money favoring” in Pryce-Jones phrase, they will be out on their asses ina month. and if they can no longer hand out bribes there will be a lot fewer State Department jerks carrying water for them.
Not the point, wom. The Saudis signed an agreement that said they would not boycott member nations. Israel is a member nation. Therefore, the Saudis have broken the WTO agreement and should be punished for it.
But of course, they won’t, because nobody cares when the law that is broken goes against Israel.
To me the Ghana Soccer player incident displayed the accepted as normal disgusting Cold War Mindset Israel is subjected to.
I saw a Venezuelan flag at the World Series by the White Sox General Manager who then also sent his regards to “his country” (Venezuela) in interviews. No outcry? Hugo Chavez is an outright enemy of the US?
The Islamic Republic of Saudi Arabia’s flags were waiving at the games as well as the Islamic Republic of Iran’s flags?
But for some reason an Israeli flag is a “political statement” the Ghanan Gov’t had to f***ing apologize for?
WOM –
Israeli sub parts especially electronic and software would sell all over Saudi Arabia don’t kid yourself, just like Chinese parts are in so many things you own you don’t even realize.
And of course the Saudis can go F*** themselves as far as buying Israeli or not, who f***ing cares…. but as Merryl said that’s not the point, just part of the larger point, that it took Israel 58 years to be considered part of the F***ing Red Cross while head chopping, wife killing, fascist Dictatorships are part of it…. but it’s ok that Israeli rescue units help out all over the world including the first to Thailand and Indonesia, offering help to Egypt in the Sinai, and Turkey.