TRAVEL MONITOR
Lift of bizarre visa requirement to help promote palestine tourism
- Published: 26/09/2011 at 08:35 AM
- Newspaper section: Business
The Palestinian bid for statehood has opened the way for the international travel & tourism industry to demand the right to visit Palestine without undergoing the humiliating and intrusive process of applying for a visa at an Israeli embassy.
The Israeli occupation of Palestine has forced millions of people all over the world, especially Christian pilgrims seeking to visit Bethlehem and Muslims seeking to pray at the Al-Aqsa mosque, the third holiest shrine in Islam, to seek a visa from a country they "do not want" to visit in order to visit a country they "do want" to visit.
By any standards of international relations, this should be totally unacceptable. Due to the wave of global support emerging for an independent Palestine, the people of all the countries backing the Palestinian bid are now well placed to demand that their governments take all necessary diplomatic steps to remove this bizarre requirement.
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About the author
- Writer: Imtiaz Muqbil
- Position: Executive editor of Travel Impact Newswire
