Remember I was telling you about having a weird experience with the Haaretz website a few days ago, being occasionally blocked from accessing it?
Apparently the block is now official in the UAE. Here’s what a friend there got when he tried to access it:
Maybe I'm wrong, but isn't Israel in general banned in the UAE? I was there for work recently and needed to access some telecom-related Israeli sites, and got that error-message for all of them. I assumed it was any site ending in .il, because these sites had nothing to do with politics or culture. They were cell phone companies.
But the Haaretz site is not a .il one. And banning Israeli sites seems kinda stupid.