Friday, May 14, 2021

RIYADH the Saudi Arabia capital

When going to India in 2011 once I bought a plane ticket that placed me to Riyadh the Saudi Arabia capital as a stop inbetween 2 planes that transferred me to India from Israel.The thing is that Israeli citizens are strictly forbidden to be inside of almost all arab countries or they face problems none wants as most arab countries are in the state of war with Israel.Its a wonder that ticket was ever sold to me,but small tourist companies only watch how to earn cash,forgetting about the rest,and i bought my ticket then in such a small opportunistic company.I simply did not know the amount of problems this would bring me at that moment.When in Riyadh we the passengers were awaiting our next plane to Delhi and my mistake was to start making problems with airfield workers about the plane that was still not on while we were waiting for it longer than normally people do;so i started making pretty loud and noisy complaints to the authorities.Most every local I saw in Riyadh was behaving extremely organized and seemed completely under his own will control without any unexpected moves or unpredictable behaviour,the way mechanisms like tractors or computers would behave if coming to us in a human body form.But I got too nervous with time passing and people around me behaving way too differently and our plane not coming yet without any signs of pacifying us the passengers at all and started inquiring about this in somewhat rougher words finally than averagely people do on airfields.Management of the airfield quickly noticed this and very soon a well built police like looking man in smaller airfield worker clothes appeared and taking hold of my hand in Iron like grip,violently pulled me away from the live line to a counter,to which I was attempting to gain access with appropriate questions.He seemed to act like an animal and a complete toy in the hands of authorities without considerations of whichever kind at all,with the mindless face of a manlike animal and simply dealing by higher orders and soon I was in the airfield prison cell along with 3 more prisoners.2 of them were,as I soon understood,Indians that most likely got to Riyadh in search of a job(when living in India in 2011 i sometimes heard that many Indians look for a job in Arab countries),and while in Kolkata i did notice several very well planned attempts by local media to let Indians fly to find work inside rich arab countries like Saudi Arabia etc and i myself had spent around 1 full year mostly near Kolkata upon the indian soil,well noticing the propaganda into that particular direction.The third jail cell inhabitant,judging by his excellent mental and physical condition we 3 never had,very brave presumtious behaviour around the cell and numerous inquiring remarks that seemingly clarified about our situations etc,was a worker of the airfield authorities that was something like a spy and confidant among cell prisoners with us 3 real ones and someone else most likely listening to our cell conversations all along from that guy.This was just my impression after the participation in all of that,but a definite 1 nevertheless as some things are too well seen from the inside of a situation even as other,not attached to it people aren't able to percieve such details.This size of government influence in even jail cells and practical life was something incredible by size and left a serious impression upon me,telling me about the realities of arab countries' life a lot with its obvious incredibly large intrusions into the life upon the private citizens' level.Similar stuff I noticed in Israel itself too,but it's dimensions were much smaller than those of the arab speaking countries' real life.When I asked the 2 Indians some questions about India(i was well interested in indian realities, flying there for tourism and so was upon my way to India)to where I was heading but most active in conversation was the government spy(3 times more than any of us real prisoners)nevertheless,who kept with us a deliberate conversation about some small life details,mostly just "keeping us alive" as the Indians were very much sleepy ,exhausted and lacking real desire to keep the conversation alive.Indians were either well tired or lazy,1 of them sleeping or laying down.The jail cell(a very small space for 4 people)stay wasn't long and I was soon released to enter my plane,after maybe 1.5 hours inside of it and as my plane to India Delhi finally arrived to the airport and the plane entering by passengers started,but not before the packing of the plane itself-just in time for me to pass between the jail cell and the plane itself-SO well is the management of the airfield is conducted,an amazing result of complete control over the airfield affairs by the authorities there,which I never ever witnessed elsewhere even close.I was officially announced right before entering the Delhi plane that I will not be allowed to enter Riyadh for any second time like returning back to Israel(I had also the return to Israel ticket officially and rightfully bought beforehands)and if I do not wanna lose my ticket money I am never to fly through Riyadh again,all said in emotionless and cold manner to me the way machines would act.Nor was i allowed to pass through Riyadh upon my way back,in complete disregard of the officially bought planes' ticket,which costed me a very considerable amount of cash,which was never returned to me,nor did I get any explanations or excuses for this form of oppression of passengers' rights.Another plane trip,a year or so later,had me in Dubai UAE for an hour or 2,1 more experience of mechanism like passengers beside myself,and it was the only time I was fed with dinner no expence during the time inbetween 2 planes between Israel and India or other countries flights too.Quality of the food was pretty low,food itself not really tasty,and the taste wasn't much,but the amount of emotions and mental speculations ,surrounding the meal easily compensated this fault in the field of a human life and relations during a day,a definite specialization of Arab culture,which is never built around food/quality of life but instead around interestingly exagerrated personal relations inside of the socium.During my years of life in Israel I noticed many times a very similar thing of highly overdeveloped relations inside a socium of people and weak quality of food they consume,or lack of physical exercising even,even as the food itself is somewhat more expensive and its percentage in the life of an arab citizen is much lower than that of a Jewish one.As I was fed with no expense dinner in the Dubai Airport caffee I saw this lack of normal Israeli food high taste and interesting orientation among other eaters towards emotional relations inbetween individuals,all seemingly unhealthy.Even as the society in both Israel and arab speaking countries allows both much higher social pensions and much higher emotional life among citizens,the food quality falls down considerably too,and this difference becomes something extraordinarily serious exactly in he case of an arab speaking society.During my plane flights to India(and I was in several flights from Israel through arab country cities)I noticed that arab countries passengers made a very considerable percentage of flight passengers,which made me assume that arab countries pay their citizens a very sizeable social support pensions(the type of the passengers involved this consideration-they certainly looked like large extended socially active families' members that had simple pleasure trips around).I certainly do know this fact as a prominent reality in Israel,where social payments DO allow a very considerable part of Israeli society to live a peaceful financially stable life even with no need to work attached because the government is stably no worries into covering such social needs,even if imaginatory ones,of every local citizen.My belief is that arab countries are much higher upon this ladder of both covering the needs of an individual AND demanding a certain return output from him in return.A citizen is also expected to also fully conform to the social programme the society does hold,and ones that conform it NOT are simply NOT allowed the privilages/better life pieces,that society leaders deciding PERSONALLY upon ''who is the good boy/girl'' and so deserving the profits from sweeter life pieces.I used this possibility myself often and find the social guarantees of Israel amazingly effective.What socialism of the Soviet Union yes promised to deliver but failed to do in the end,is very well present in real life of the Middle Eastern countries,the more islam based and less pro western are they the larger the social guarantees attached,and thats extremely highly developed financial social expenditure and other social programs,attached to an ordinary citizen,an amazing feat for the world caleidoscope none is aware of.No doubt(witnessed this myself sometimes)there is also another side to this seemingly heavenly condition,namely miserly condition of those,refusing the normal life process the way it is normally taken among the locals,a thing I am certain almost completely nonexistent in arab speaking countries and very weak in Israel itself,which in reality is this weird combination of the west and an arab country it in reality is.Of such weird to Israel substances I can name only several drug addicts I did observe in real life,and i would be aware of more of such cases in case this problem WAS indeed a large 1.There is no hard proof of any involvement of the society in the hardships of the fallen,neither is there also a need in searching for 1(the society is feeling very well with it all),but there are ways to see through the situations and the society YES was at least partly to blame for the hardships they endured,preferring not to help solve the hardships they faced at all but instead to deepen the already existing situation and,when finally faced with a hardly fallen down citizen simply to easily discard him to a jail or a drug addiction centre as a dirty rug,once used and not needed any longer.No sizeable care to such people after they DID fall down even exists,this is how it is in Israel at least,and my guess is in arab countries such folks are enduring MUCH harder life than normal people do anyway.This is just a very small side of middle eastern countries none is willing to show,even as it DOES exist.Such things are certainly in use/normal life in Israel,witnessed it myself on several occasions.Here in Israel this idea is very similar to the traditional approach to such people in India,a thing I yes was observing while living there in 2011,seen even through their traditional holy scriptures,which,along with the society leaders,call on people to hold the individual that is in a problematic condition now inside this condition for possibly longer,avoiding real interruption into the matter at hand,not at all attempting to improve his present condition but instead moving the current situation on and on,even intentionally throwing an individual into further yet SIMILAR hardships.This situation is simply a part of the local life that needs to be faced as THE reality,which is ruling the place instead of anyone who might think or wish otherwise.Just as it is with so many world spots,what we see about them upon TV is only its external and very small/away from THE real situation side,and the reality upon the ground is MUCH more complex and hard for people themselves.Once also i was passing through the airport of Abu Dhabi on 1 of my trips to India and this was the ONLY plane trip i was to,during which we the passengers of the plane were fed with a meal in the airport itself,no additional payments demanded.The food wasnt tasty during that meal,and my impression held that none cares a single bit about the quality of the food given.Interestingly,along with the small food qualities there was 1 more originality to the food of the airport-the amazing amount of emotions 1 had/was evidently expected to show during the preplanned meal.That trip gave me no complications though and had no problems of the Riyadh airport 1 sort at all.

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