8 Gaza students lose U.S. grants after denied exit visas by Israel

[gryfin]

More news from Israel's prison territory.

"The United States State Department has retracted Fulbright scholarships from eight Palestinian students in Gaza because Israel will not grant them exit visas, a spokesman said Thursday."

http://www.haaretz.com/hasen/spages/988686.html

Israel does not want educated Palestinians talking to Americans and getting ideas in their heads about freedom and telling their American hosts the truth about life under Israeli occupation.

 

[trufflepiggy]

Freedom........... that is the last thing any "palestinian" wants

 

[Aardvark154]

"The United States State Department has retracted Fulbright scholarships from eight Palestinian students in Gaza because Israel will not grant them exit visas, a spokesman said Thursday."

They couldn't exit through Egypt that great fellow Arab country?