Israeli students plan to protest Obama

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The U.S. Embassy in Israel declined to invite students from a controversial university in the West Bank from attending President Barack Obama's speech in Jerusalem, prompting those students to promise a protest of the president's appearance.



After the Times of Israel reported that students from all major Israeli universities except Ariel University, based in a hotly contested West Bank settlement, were invited to Obama's March 21 address at a Jerusalem convention center, Israeli lawmakers and Ariel University students criticized the president and pledged to show up at the speech anyway. The school was upgraded to full university status last year, becoming the first Israeli major university in the West Bank and sparking a firestorm of international criticism.

"We were pretty shocked by the discrimination and by the manner in which Ariel University was given up on," Shay Shahaf, the head of the university's student union, told the Israeli newspaper Yedioth Ahronoth, promising to protest. "In either case, we'll have a presence there."

Israeli students plan to protest Obama speech after embassy snub | The Cable

 

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Obama... Wasn't he supposed to unite the world in peaceful harmony or something? What exactly happened to all that hope and change BS? He gets more and more like Bush every day, it's no wonder Liberals are still so angry even after he won a second term.