{"id":8139,"date":"2014-03-07T12:53:22","date_gmt":"2014-03-07T12:53:22","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/wilayah.info\/en\/?p=8139"},"modified":"2014-03-07T12:56:22","modified_gmt":"2014-03-07T12:56:22","slug":"us-denying-visas-to-israeli-military-and-intelligence-officials","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/wilayah.info\/en\/us-denying-visas-to-israeli-military-and-intelligence-officials\/","title":{"rendered":"US denying visas to Israeli military and intelligence officials"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"divLead2\">\n<p><strong>The United States has denied visa requests from hundreds of Israeli military and intelligence officials over the past year, a report in an Israeli newspaper says.<\/strong><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p>According to the report published in the Hebrew-language daily Maariv, Washington is also giving short-term visas to Israeli army officials who are already in the US or making some of them leave for Canada to get their visas renewed after weeks.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;In the last 20 years, I have been to the US dozens of times as part of my job and have never encountered a problem,&#8221; one Israeli military official told Maariv.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;During the past year, everything has changed: I&#8217;ve heard many stories of defense [sic] establishment people who weren&#8217;t able to renew their visas, and it didn\u2019t make sense to me until I tried to renew my own \u2013 and failed,&#8221; the official said.<\/p>\n<p>The report also says that at least 26 high-ranking Israeli military officers and officials from the Mossad or Shin Bet could not obtain US visas.<\/p>\n<p>Israeli officials have not provided any explanations for the matter. Some analysts say the move might be due to Washington&#8217;s fear of industrial espionage by Israeli agents.<\/p>\n<p>Source &#8211; <a href=\"http:\/\/www.presstv.ir\/detail\/2014\/03\/06\/353423\/us-denies-visas-to-israeli-officials\/\" target=\"_blank\">Press TV<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The United States has denied visa requests from hundreds of Israeli military and intelligence officials over the past year, a report in an Israeli newspaper says. According to the report published in the Hebrew-language daily Maariv, Washington is also giving short-term visas to Israeli army officials who are already in the US or making some &hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":8140,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"iawp_total_views":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[136,163,274,273],"class_list":["post-8139","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","","category-news-and-analysis","tag-israel","tag-ticker","tag-usa","tag-visa"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/wilayah.info\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8139","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/wilayah.info\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/wilayah.info\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wilayah.info\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wilayah.info\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=8139"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/wilayah.info\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8139\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":8144,"href":"https:\/\/wilayah.info\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8139\/revisions\/8144"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wilayah.info\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/8140"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/wilayah.info\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=8139"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wilayah.info\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=8139"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wilayah.info\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=8139"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}