The following is an excerpt from OpinionJournal.com’s “Best of the Web” written by the editor, James Taranto.
NOTE: The following excerpt is from the BOTW archives of March 4, 2009:
Matchmaker, Matchmaker, Make Me a Match
While Arab regimes stoke hatred for Israel, some of their subjects are looking for love, YNetNews.com reports:
“I’m asking for your help. I would like to meet an Israeli woman for marriage purposes,” Abdullah, a resident of Saudi Arabia, said in a recent letter to the Foreign Ministry in Jerusalem.
“I have heard that the Israeli women are very smart and beautiful,” he added. “I’m ready to pay a dowry of camels, herds or even money. Please help me.”
Dozens of such appeals are received every year by the Foreign Ministry’s department for Arab media. Emails have been arriving from people in Iraq, Yemen, Saudi Arabia and Egypt.
How does the ministry respond? An official tells YNetNews, “We politely answer all of them that with all due respect, the Foreign Ministry is not a matchmaking agency.”
It sounds as if there’s a big untapped market for JDate.
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