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Re:Is Saudi money becoming radioactive? by throw34583945 on Thursday October 11, 2018 @06:12PM (#18197444)
Isn't being jewish (like most of YC) an even bigger issue to the saudis?
Re:Is Saudi money becoming radioactive? by stevenjohns on Thursday October 11, 2018 @06:38PM (#18197589)
No. Neither is being Israeli. The two find lots of mutual ground in their opposition to Iranian and Muslim Brotherhood (Turkey, Qatar) strength/control.
Re:Is Saudi money becoming radioactive? by acjohnson55 on Thursday October 11, 2018 @06:17PM (#18197466)
Maybe 30+ years ago. Not these days.
Re:Is Saudi money becoming radioactive? by throw34583945 on Thursday October 11, 2018 @06:24PM (#18197506)
According to https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Israel%E2%80%93Saudi_Arabia_re..., Saudia Arabia forbids aircraft traveling to Israel from overflying Saudi airspace. Doesn't seem very friendly to me.
Re:Is Saudi money becoming radioactive? by JumpCrisscross on Thursday October 11, 2018 @06:27PM (#18197515)
> Saudia Arabia forbids aircraft traveling to Israel from overflying Saudi airspace

Anti-Israel, not (as) anti-Judaism. Saudi Arabia and Israel have a rough history. I know plenty of Jews who safely do business in the KSA. That said, they tend to stay within the larger cities of Riyadh and the more-liberal Jeddah.

Re:Is Saudi money becoming radioactive? by throw34583945 on Thursday October 11, 2018 @06:31PM (#18197540)
That's interesting, thanks for sharing. I guess pragmatic commerce finds a way. I thought it was more black and white.
Re:Is Saudi money becoming radioactive? by ethbro on Thursday October 11, 2018 @10:51PM (#18198782)
A friend from Bahrain put Middle East politics this way: 'Look at the Palestinians. Every country's government decries how poorly they've been treated, but none of them lift a finger to do anything about it.'

In other words, money and business >> beliefs.

Re:Is Saudi money becoming radioactive? by forapurpose on Thursday October 11, 2018 @11:59PM (#18199105)
> Anti-Israel, not (as) anti-Judaism

I think you are kidding yourself if you think religion doesn't play a major part in Israel's relations with the rest of the Mideast, on both sides.

And elsewhere it's a complicated issue: Anti-Semites use that claim (anti-Israel, not anti-Jewish) as cover for and a dog-whistle for acting and talking against Jewish people; on the other hand. people criticizing Israel's behavior have been unfairly accused of being anti-Semitic. It's often very hard to separate the two motives based on objective fact. (And to make it more complex, anti-Semitic race nationalists, including at least some Nazis, have supported Israel because it fits their concept of national racial purity - 'Israel for Jews, the country I live in for <their racial self-identification>'.)

Re:Is Saudi money becoming radioactive? by kingofpandora on Thursday October 11, 2018 @11:37PM (#18199006)
A commercial El-Al flight landed in Saudi a few years ago for emergency repairs.

Israel and KSA both benefit from people thinking they hate one another. But they don't.

Re:Is Saudi money becoming radioactive? by rapsey on Friday October 12, 2018 @01:32AM (#18199446)
Exactly. It's pretty much an open secret Israel and SA even cooperate in an intelligence capacity. They do have a common enemy after all (Iran).

The world is just full of contradictions with regards to what is common public knowledge and actual reality.

Re:Is Saudi money becoming radioactive? by myth_drannon on Thursday October 11, 2018 @06:32PM (#18197545)
Doesn't apply to military aircraft. Both countries have some sort of military co-operation related to Iranian threat. Enemy of my enemy is my friend.
Re:Is Saudi money becoming radioactive? by acjohnson55 on Thursday October 11, 2018 @06:54PM (#18197683)
Read the lede.

I would agree they're not "friendly", but I didn't use that word.