Regardless of all the political agreements, on any Arabian map of the world, there is no such country called isreal. Look at any Arabic georaphy book, and you will discover the shocking truth about the Third World
By the way, those books are revised and updated annually

Thanks for the refreshing and inspiring post. I loved it!

Maha Noor Elahi
http://www.saudirevelations.wordpress.com

‘Israeli Muslims wishing to embark on the journey usually contact one of several associations dealing with pilgrims. Non-Muslims cannot take part in the event. The pilgrims register their details and submit passport photos, which are then sent to the Jordanian Ministry of Islamic Trust (Waqf).

Once they cross the border from Israel into Jordan, a local official collects their Israeli passports and they are issued temporary Jordanian passports. The documents are valid for a month or two months, depending on the season.

The Jordanian passports are presented at the border crossing with Saudi Arabia, and the pilgrims then head for Mecca as Jordanian nationals. ‘

Sounds to me like politics trumps God in KSA and creates a ‘tax’ on Israeli Muslims.

I am also seeing the discussion about Israelis, Arab-Israelis, or Palestinian –Israelis are all irrelevant in regard to Hajj. If they are Muslims, they are welcomed to Makkah.

There was even an attempt by the Central Elections Committee to ban the participation of the two Arab parties United Arab List-Ta’al and Balad for alleged disloyalty to the state and support of Israel’s enemies, the ban was, by a vote of 8 to 1, overturned by the Israeli Supreme Court, allowing the parties to participate. One would hope something like this wouldn’t happen in the USA or any other country claiming to be a democracy.

No, they are not equal citizens. They get different fundind for schools, hospitals, education and many other things. Being that they are not Jewish many things are not open to them that are open to Jewish Israelis. Land ownership and purchase is one of the big ones.

Many pro Israelis here in the USA like to say that “Israel is just like us”. I would agree if the “us” they are talking about is a militarised Jim Crow/segregated America, then yeah, they are “just like us”.

The only difference is that we have long since abolished the very things that once made us “just like them”.

I guess the choice is to live on the land where their families have been for 1,000 years and more, or flee. They stay in the hopes one day they will be equal citizens in the country where they have always lived.