Half of those banned countries are (also ?) banned by Israel itself.
As for the rest, do you really want the US to be compared to these ??
16 countries forbid admission to Israeli Passport holders.
In addition, Iran, Kuwait, Lebanon, Libya, Saudi Arabia, Sudan, Syria and Yemen do not allow entry to people with evidence of travel to Israel, or whose passports have either a used or an unused Israeli visa.
As a consequence, many countries will allow for a second passport to be issued to citizens wishing to circumvent this restriction although the Israeli immigration services themselves have now mostly ceased to issue entry or exit stamps to foreign nationals.
Have a look at this list....
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Visa_requirements_for_Israeli_citizens
16 countries refuse admission to Israelis... all of them... and "crickets"... nada, not a peep of outrage.
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Also, President Obama banned Iraq refugees in 2011 for 6 months – media was silent on that...
http://abcnews.go.com/Blotter/al-qa...terrorists-country-refugees/story?id=20931131
As a result of the Kentucky case, the State Department stopped processing Iraq refugees for six months in 2011, federal officials told ABC News – even for many who had heroically helped U.S. forces as interpreters and intelligence assets.
As for the ban...
It isn't racial:
- As you know, countries do no make up a "race"
- If you wish to argue that Middle Eastern is a "race" fine but the majority of Middle Eastern States weren't banned so there was no racial ban.
It isn't a religious ban:
- There are 51 countries in the world that are predominately Muslim. Only 7 of them were banned thus 43 are still welcome in the US
- Roughly 88% of the worlds Muslim Population is still welcome in the US
- When the vast majority of Muslims and "Muslim Countries" are not banned, you cannot accurately call it a Muslim ban
It isn't a Regional Ban:
- Saudi Arabia
- Turkey
- Egypt
- Pakistan
All are predominantly Muslim and all are directly in the region but are not banned...
This is not a Racial, Religious, or Regional Ban...this is a ban of 7 specific countries.
Why these seven countries:
About a year ago, President Obama and Homeland Security identified 7 countries as a terrorist threat to the US based on the growing amount of terror attacks in the world from these regions....And yes it is the exact same 7 countries that Trump banned.
Obama's response to Homeland was to remove the "visa waiver program" in these 7 countries... This meant that anyone coming from these 7 countries would have to be fully vetted.
Trump took these same 7 countries and is banning them all for 90 days
The seven were not picked because of racism, Trump business interests, etc...they were picked because even the previous administration thought they were more "dangerous" than the surrounding countries in the region...
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So it's the same 7 countries. Everyone needs to take a breath here.
