Here's another example of the absurdness of the Israel-Palestine Conflict. The New York Times published an article today entitled "State Dept. Reinstates Gaza Fulbright Grants."(If you are not signed up for a NYT online account, you might as well. It's free.) Apparently , Palestinian recipients of the Fulbright were told last week that they were not going to receive the grant after all because of Israel's ban on travel for Palestinians in the Gaza strip. Fortunately, the State Department saw the error of this fairly quickly and got special permission for travel for the Fulbright scholars, after they go through rigorous security checks (who knows what that will involve). But, as the article points out, there are still close to 600 other scholars in the Gaza strip who have received scholarships to study abroad, who are, as it currently stands, unable to take advantage of these prestigious opportunities they have been offered. If Israel is looking for ways to escalate violence and garner support for Hamas, this is certainly a good stepping stone towards that goal. Imagine working hard for an opportunity such as a prestigious scholarship to study abroad, receiving it, then being told you can't use it because you happen to be a Palestinian student, who also happens to live in Gaza. That might piss me off a little. How about you?
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This is part of a comprehensive program of ethnic cleansing. Terror, denial of basic needs, constant harassment directed toward an ethnic group that is in the process of being expelled. These are the same sorts of things practiced elsewhere that are readily labeled as ethnic cleansing if those doing the cleansing happen to be targets of a hostile US foreign policy.
An example of domestic ethnic cleansing is happening right now in New Orleans.
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