Posted on 08/04/2008 8:53:58 PM PDT by Nachum
(IsraelNN.com) The American State Department has refused visas to three of seven Gaza students who were given clearance by Israel after American pressure to give them a clearance to leave Gaza to study under a Fulbright scholarship in the United States. The American consulate in Jerusalem cited unspecified security concerns as reasons for denying visas to the three students.
American Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice originally insisted that Israel allow the students to leave Gaza, and four of them were granted visas by the U.S. The Americans balked at the Israeli warning that the other three were security risks and granted them visas, only to revoke them two days later following "more information" that was received. "We decided that we needed to take a closer and harder look at them in light of the additional information we received," State Department spokesman Gonzalo Gallegos told reporters
"Show me just what Mohammed brought that was new, and there you will find things only evil and inhuman, such as his command to spread by the sword the faith he preached." - Manuel II Palelologus
Senator Fullbright would have approved of funding the education of terrorists or anti-Israel propagandists.
If they were indeed terrorists, Harvard and Yale would have been overjoyed at receiving them!
Yup, more bodies for the FBI to surveil. Thank you State (of Idiots) Department.
Say what?
Georgetown too...:-)
Me either.
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OK, Condi may not care much care about terrorists in Israel, where they kill mostly Jews. But at least she's paying a little attention when it comes to the US. Clearly her image of Israel as a collection of Jim Crow style bigots, deserving to enter meetings by the side entrance, is alive and well, and impacting American foreign policy.
Ain’t that the truth!
Forgot about them - thanks for reminding me... aarg!
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