Delta's Incredible No-Jew Fly Policy

"This can't be right," I said to myself when I heard about Delta Air Lines' agreement to enforce a "no-Jew" policy as part of its new deal with Saudi Arabia. "If this were correct, every major news organization would be reporting it."

Even I thought that — the guy who founded the first independent news agency on the Internet because he recognized the abject failure of the media. But I was wrong.

Apparently, I overestimated the integrity of the U.S. media and the willingness of major U.S. corporations to sell out American values of fairness, equality and civil rights for petrodollars.

I don't know about you, but I'm tired of being shocked by the media's myopia and selective concern for human rights abuses. Here's the latest one they, er, overlooked .

Delta Air Lines plans to add Saudi Arabian Airlines to its SkyTeam Alliance of partnering companies. This requires the American carrier to ban Jews and holders of Israeli passports from boarding flights from New York or Washington bound for Jeddah. In other words, Delta has voluntarily chosen to serve as an enforcement agent for Saudi Arabia's disgusting bias against Jews.

I trust that every person with a moral compass will never look at Delta Air Lines the same way again. This is, after all, how holocausts happen.

They don't happen overnight. It doesn't start with a Kristallnacht. It doesn't start with the burning of the Reichstag. It starts with ordinary people who should know better accepting the idea that it's in their best interests to discriminate against Jews — maybe even rationalizing that they don't have a choice.

That's what is happening in the corporate boardrooms of Delta Air Lines. It will be Delta agents who say, "Your papers, please." But they will just be doing the bidding of the anti-Semitic Saudi princes.

Imagine this: A decade after a group of Saudis hijacked four American planes, flying two of them into the World Trade Center and another into the Pentagon, it is considered unthinkable to give a Saudi airline passenger a second look at the security gate.

Amazing. You don't think Shariah law is coming to America in bits and pieces?

Consider the fact that it is against U.S. law to discriminate on the basis of religion. But Delta is doing just that at the bidding of Saudi Arabia. In fact, it is doing the discriminating on behalf of Saudi Arabia. As for me, I don't understand why Saudi Arabia Airlines is even permitted to land and take off at U.S. airports.

Would we allow Nazi Germany's airlines to land and take off here? Would it have been appropriate for American companies to cooperate with their viciously anti-Semitic policies in the interest of commerce? If Saudi Arabia can leverage its wealth in this way, where do we draw the line? Is there anything Americans and American companies and the American government won't do when the sheikhs beckon?

I am literally sick to my stomach because of this news. I am sickened even more by the lack of attention this story has received from the rest of the media. It shows, again, how deep the Saudi influence goes.

There's a myth still perpetrated in some circles that the media are controlled by "the Jews." The reality is that the Saudis are buying more influence in the U.S. news media, corporate America, Washington law firms and dozens of other spheres of American life than Jews could ever imagine.

And don't make the mistake of equating Saudi values with Jewish values. Jewish values are the values of Western civilization, the Bible, Moses and a rabbi named Yeshua. Saudi values are the values of Muhammad, the very antithesis of American values.

I don't know about you, but I'm not flying Delta. If that airline is willing to enforce Shariah law on behalf of its partners in the Wahabbi lobby at the expense of the Jews, they'll have to do without my business, too.

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