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ISRAEL AND ITS OUTRAGEOUS TREATMENT OF FULBRIGHT SCHOLARS
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Zohair Shaban is supposed to be at the University of Connecticut studying for his Masters Degree in Electrical Engineering.
He is an excellent student. In fact a few months ago he was awarded a prestigious Fulbright Scholarship, sponsored by the Government of the United States, to come and study in America.
But Zohair is a Palestinian, and he lives in Gaza. And the Israelis have put one obstacle after another in his way.
First the Israelis told the State Department they would not even let the seven students awarded Fulbright scholars out of Gaza to simply come to the American Consulate in Jerusalem.
Unbelievably the State Department said OK and cancelled the Fulbright scholarships!
There was so much protest that the State Department changed course and then re-awarded the scholarships after the personal intervention of Secretary of State Rice herself.
Then the Israelis said they would let only 4 of the 7 Gaza Fulbrights out of Gaza to come to the U.S. Consulate in Jerusalem and get their Visas. The other 3 were refused all permissions by the Israelis and essentially imprisoned in Gaza.
So this time the State Department put its foot down and for the first time in history the Consulate sent officials to meet with the three, trapped students at what is known as “the Crossing Point”. A few weeks later all three of the trapped Gaza Fulbrights got their U.S. visas, including Zohair Shaban.
But apparently the Israelis hadn’t given up and wanted to show what they consider their macho once again!
Somehow the Israelis managed to pressure someone in the U.S. government higher up and within days the Visas were cancelled!
One of the Fulbright scholars actually arrived at Dulles Airport, all papers in order when he departed, but upon arrival he was told his Visa was cancelled!
What an outrageous situation this is. How embarrassed all of us Americans should be that the Israelis can push our own State Department around like this!
We spoke today by Zohair Shaban in Gaza about this ordeal:
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And remember, there are many hundreds of other students who are also enrolled in foreign universities, and many more enrolled in Palestinian universities outside Gaza, who are trapped by the Israelis who refuse to let them even go to college! Outrageous!
As an extra insight for you to hear from a Fulbright Scholar who had been denied permission to leave Gaza by the Israeli Government –
And the maddening, unbelievable response of our own American Government to “bow down” to the imperious and villainous Israeli Authorities, Imagine This – the UNBELIEVABLE:
American Officials would actually “roll over” and “play dead” to such low and disgraceful tactics by the Israeli Government Authorities. Submitting to authorities who would not even allow these marvelous, worthy students a chance to receive their deserved education – instead forcing them to live in the Virtual Israeli PRISON of the horribly deprived Gaza territory.
These are the thoughts of Citizen Paul – a man who cannot believe and will not accept this disgraceful, inhumane behavior of the Israeli’s “non-democratic” Government, the Knesset – linked with their brutal Army and their duplicitous Secret Service, the Mossad.
This is outrageous and unbelievable behavior to expel upon decent human beings – and behavior that must be ABSOLUTELY CONDEMNED!
This horrible Israeli behavior confirms and amplifies the evidence of the brave and defiant, young Israeli Patriots who are the heroes of our new, soon to be completed Publication:
SAVING ISRAEL FROM ITSELF
