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| Michael Wilner / Photo: Facebook |
By Lori Lowenthal Marcus, Mar. 25, 2014, Jewish Press
Michael Wilner is the Jerusalem Post‘s
reporter based in Washington, and its White House correspondent. He is an
American Jew who does not have Israeli citizenship and has never lived in
Israel.
About midday on Monday, March 24, Wilner tweeted,
“Saudi Arabia has denied me a visa to cover Obama’s trip this week.”
Wilner is the only journalist in the press corps
who was denied entry by Saudi Arabia.
The White House declined to comment publicly, but
the Jerusalem Post reported that U.S. National Security Adviser Susan
Rice specifically requested that the visa be granted. Tony Blinken, a special
assistant to President Obama, was also reported to have issued a request to
Adel bin Ahmed al-Jubeir, Saudi Arabia’s ambassador to the U.S.
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