Top Tourism Scams in Middle East

From CNN's 'Top 10 popular scams around the world':

Though notorious for their scams, the local camel herders or tourist peddlers swarming the pyramids succeed with a combination of craft and relentless bombardment of words that can beat you down, with the sun acting on their side, if you're dizzy and overwhelmed as is. Camel keepers at the pyramid sites can really take you for a 'ride'.

"I found the camel riding scam in Egypt to be somehow funny:"

"Do you love lists?
I adore them :) "

"So a journalist sends me a few questions for an article she is writing, those are the questions and my quickanswers.

1. In your opinion, is Gaza “occupied”by Israel?
2. What do you want Americans to know about the situation in Palestine?
3. What do you want Americans to know about the Arab or Muslim world?
4. Any additional comments"

"How are Israel’s air strikes any different from the militant rocket attacks it so boldly denounces? This is sure to spark a poisoned debate — mostly because the general public is informed only to the extent that Fox News, for example, informs them, but ultimately because the more vocal individuals, the ones who hide behind a charade of objectivity, are just too intolerant and too one-sided to even consider the possibility that there really is another side to the coin, a side that can only be explored if the double standards are dropped and the context is expanded beyond Israel’s immediate borders."

"There are many things that (those of us Arabs born in the 1980s) learned from movies, I wrote this list inspired by an email forwarded by a friend, had to remove and add my own experience here:"

"Over the past three years, my wife Pennie and I have been working on a documentary film about the Israeli-Palestinian conflict.....

"During our interview with Davis, one of the questions we asked was whether he had encountered any anti-Semitism in the West Bank. The question was motivated by a desire on our part to address a narrative — prevalent among American and Israeli Jews — which claims that anti-Semitism is an obvious feature of Palestinian culture."