Where did I "admit it" care to share that? What "GOVERNMENT" banned Israelis from purchasing food? You keep making a lot of statements but aren't providing any facts to back them up.
So, you are saying that Jews are not tight?
Few years ago, the tourism ministry and people were complaining from Israeli tourists acts and it was all over local media...
Israeli tourists upset Jordanians
Jordanian authorities have recently lodged an official complaint with the Israeli Embassy in Amman, citing the way Israeli tourists have been conducting themselves while visiting the Hashemite Kingdom.
The complaint led the Foreign Ministry to convene a senior panel to discuss the matter, including Israeli Ambassador to Jordan, Yaakov Rosen, head of the ministry's Jordanian bureau, Tuvia Israeli and Amnon Kalmar, head of the Foreign Ministry's department for Israelis abroad; as well as representatives of the Tourism Ministry and the Counter Terrorism Bureau.
But what has the Jordanians so upset? The Israeli tourists, says Amman, keep breaking one of Jordan's basic tourism laws, which calls for any group of six tourists or more to be accompanied by a local guide. Jordan says the Israelis cross the border one by one, and only form a group later on.
Further more, Israeli tourists break protocol by traveling to areas near Jordan's borders with Iraq and Saudi Arabia, and by venturing too close to military facilities.
And as if that was not enough, the Jordanians claim that the Israelis traveling to Petra evade paying the mandatory toll of 25 dinar ($35); they camp illegally in national parks, and that they are rude to local law enforcement officials.
In another case, Jordanian forces were reported to have engaged in a grueling rescue operation of an Israeli woman bitten by a scorpion. However, upon arrival to hospital, the woman reportedly refused to be treated by Jordanian doctors, deeply insulting them.
Jordan banning Israeli tourists from bringing in food
Jordanian authorities have issued an unusual order banning the entry of food through its western border crossings, apparently in an attempt to get Israeli tourists to spend more money during their stay in the kingdom.
According to a new warning published on the Israeli Foreign Ministry website, "For security and safety reasons, the entry of packed cooked food into Jordan through the border crossings has been banned."
What does security have to do with cooked food, you ask? Well, a short inquiry reveals that the Jordanians are not really concerned that Israelis are hiding weapons in their pots and pans.
Officially, Jordan explains that it won't allow the entry of food which has not undergone a veterinary health check and has not received a phytosanitary approval. The Foreign Ministry, for some reason, turned this instruction into a security warning.
But the real reason, apart from the sanitary excuse, is that Jordanians have had enough of seeing Israeli tourists avoiding local restaurants and failing to spend any money during their short visits to Petra.
The neighboring kingdom thinks it's unfair that Israelis tour the country, use tourist infrastructures, enjoy Jordanian treasures but infuse no money into the local economy.
According to a Jordanian source, Israeli tourists arriving for one-day visits usually bring along bottles of water, sandwiches and cooked dishes. Some even enter restaurants with the homemade food.
In order to deal with the situation, the kingdom is also planning to raise the entrance fee to the popular Red Rock site in Petra. As of March, the tariff will climb from 50 Jordanian dinars (about $70) to 80 dinars ($113). This is the second price hike in the past year – up from only 20 dinars ($28).
Some 100,000 Israelis visit Jordan every year, many of them for one-day trips which allow them to bring along homemade food and avoid spending money on a hotel.
This isn't the first time Jordanians come up with creative ways to deal with the Israeli "stinginess". In the past, they enacted a law forcing a group of more than six tourists to hire a local guide and increased the border-crossing fee.
I'm not sure if this was intentional, but combined with Jordan's previous ban on tefillin and yarmulkas, and given that there are no kosher restaurants in Jordan, this means that religious Jews can no longer visit Jordan on even short trips unless they don't eat anything beyond potato chips.
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