Clinton Announces Million-Dollar Scholarship Program for Palestinian Students

[WillowTree]

Ramallah, West Bank — Secretary of State Hillary Rodham Clinton has announced a new million-dollar scholarship program to help Palestinian students enroll at Palestinian and American universities.

Mrs. Clinton announced the Middle East Partnership Initiative during a visit to this Palestinian town last week. The four-year program will support about 10 scholarships each year for disadvantaged students to attend four-year courses at Palestinian universities. The program will also offer 25 “opportunity grants” to enable promising but disadvantaged young Palestinians to apply to American-accredited institutions in the United States or the Middle East, a State Department official told The Chronicle.

Once funds are approved by Congress, Mrs. Clinton hopes to begin the program in the 2010-11 academic year. The money is in addition to $900-million in aid to the Palestinian Authority announced by the secretary last week at the donors’ conference, in Sharm el Sheikh, Egypt.


Clinton Announces Million-Dollar Scholarship Program for Palestinian Students - Chronicle.com





Outstanding innit??

 

[xsited1]

.... The program will also offer 25 “opportunity grants” to enable promising but disadvantaged young Palestinians to apply to American-accredited institutions in the United States or the Middle East, a State Department official told The Chronicle...

I didn't know any American schools offered suicide bombing degrees.

 

[Xenophon]

Is she going to pay for it?

 

[Zoom-boing]

Is she going to pay for it?

I'll give you three guesses and the first two don't count.

The money is in addition to $900-million in aid to the Palestinian Authority announced by the secretary last week

 

[rayboyusmc]

The level of your rightie drivel is going even lower.

Keep up the great work.

 

[mightypeon]

Anything that actually ends the Palestinian-Israel conflict (and giving the palis decent education on emptying their refugee camps as very important for that) may be a worthwhile monetary investment, given how much the USA currently invests in Israels military.

 

[jillian]

Anything that actually ends the Palestinian-Israel conflict (and giving the palis decent education on emptying their refugee camps as very important for that) may be a worthwhile monetary investment, given how much the USA currently invests in Israels military.

why do you think education changes their philosophy?

the people who did the 9/11 bombing lived and worked here and were educated.

let me know when the investment in Israel comes back at us to blow up two buildings in NY.

 

[toomuchtime_]

Ramallah, West Bank — Secretary of State Hillary Rodham Clinton has announced a new million-dollar scholarship program to help Palestinian students enroll at Palestinian and American universities.

Mrs. Clinton announced the Middle East Partnership Initiative during a visit to this Palestinian town last week. The four-year program will support about 10 scholarships each year for disadvantaged students to attend four-year courses at Palestinian universities. The program will also offer 25 “opportunity grants” to enable promising but disadvantaged young Palestinians to apply to American-accredited institutions in the United States or the Middle East, a State Department official told The Chronicle.

Once funds are approved by Congress, Mrs. Clinton hopes to begin the program in the 2010-11 academic year. The money is in addition to $900-million in aid to the Palestinian Authority announced by the secretary last week at the donors’ conference, in Sharm el Sheikh, Egypt.


Clinton Announces Million-Dollar Scholarship Program for Palestinian*Students - Chronicle.com






Outstanding innit??

That depends. Are the Palestinian schools or other ME schools going to be vetted for connections with terrorist organizations or philosophies? Are the students going to be vetted for connections to terrorist organizations or philosophies to see if we will be training chemical engineers to build better bombs and chemical weapons for Hamas and al Qaeda?

 

[Skull Pilot]

Too bad that money isn't being spent on American kids.

So now we are the police and the educators of the world.

Wasn't it Obama who said the country with the best educated population will have the greatest success in the world?

too bad he wants to educate our competitors as well.

 

[Shogun]

Anything that actually ends the Palestinian-Israel conflict (and giving the palis decent education on emptying their refugee camps as very important for that) may be a worthwhile monetary investment, given how much the USA currently invests in Israels military.

why do you think education changes their philosophy?

the people who did the 9/11 bombing lived and worked here and were educated.

let me know when the investment in Israel comes back at us to blow up two buildings in NY.

Well.. given how blind support for israel has a knack for pissing off muslims that we are busy shitting on for your zionist sake... Say, anyone hear any good jokes about israel begging the US to attack iran lately?


I have to say, it's fucking hilarious that you people are so brazen about your racism as long as the subject is muslims. Let someone make the same comment about money laundering 101 and Advanced Ponzi schemes at Hebrew U. and you silly fuckers would be screaming antisemite faster than it takes Ravi to eat a large pizza. by herself.


Sad, really. Not that princess minds when it comes to stereotyping arabs.. Hell, thats the prerogative of the chosen.. or so sayeth a burning bush..

 

[toomuchtime_]

Too bad that money isn't being spent on American kids.

So now we are the police and the educators of the world.

Wasn't it Obama who said the country with the best educated population will have the greatest success in the world?

too bad he wants to educate our competitors as well.

Obama-Clinton want to give millions to poor Palestinian kids, but the Democrats, at the bidding of their union masters, are taking millions away from poor American kids in DC.

Reporting from Washington -- Congress is poised to do away with one of former President George W. Bush's signature initiatives in education: the taxpayer-funded vouchers that enable students from low-income families in the District of Columbia to attend private schools.

About 1,700 children in kindergarten through 12th grade receive the $7,500 annual scholarships. Four times as many apply.

But a provision in the $410-billion spending bill that passed the Senate on Tuesday says that no funds will be appropriated for the program after the 2009-10 school year unless Congress reauthorizes it and the District of Columbia Council approves it. With the Senate's action, the funding bill goes to President Obama for his signature.

If the voucher program is allowed to expire, the students would probably be back in the public system within two years.

Spending plan kills funding for Washington school vouchers - Los Angeles Times

 

[manu1959]

change you can't believe..............

 

[Xenophon]

Notice how the current administration continues to act like we have a bottomless money pit to draw on.

When do these giveaways end?

 

[Kalam]

Good. To those complaining, one million dollars is absolutely nothing in the grand scheme of things.

 

[Kalam]

Notice how the current administration continues to act like we have a bottomless money pit to draw on.

You say that as if the current administration is the first to do this...

 

[Epsilon Delta]

What's the point?

It's not like Israel's going to allow them to even leave the place.

Gaza Fulbright scholars denied access to Israel meet U.S. visa officials at Gaza border - International Herald Tribune

Israel denied entry to the three Palestinian university students, thus preventing them from traveling to the U.S. Consulate in Jerusalem to apply for their visas. Instead, U.S. officials, carrying fingerprinting equipment for the visa applications, drove to the Erez Crossing on the Israel-Gaza border Thursday and met with the Gaza students.

 

[Zoom-boing]

Good. To those complaining, one million dollars is absolutely nothing in the grand scheme of things.

It's quite a bit in the small scheme of things. So is $7.78 billions dollars of 'pork' in the budget. I like how dismissive some people are of money, especially when it isn't theirs.

 

[Kalam]

It's quite a bit in the small scheme of things. So is $7.78 billions dollars of 'pork' in the budget. I like how dismissive some people are of money, especially when it isn't theirs.

I pay my taxes like everyone else... my money's there as well.

 

[Skull Pilot]

It's quite a bit in the small scheme of things. So is $7.78 billions dollars of 'pork' in the budget. I like how dismissive some people are of money, especially when it isn't theirs.

I pay my taxes like everyone else... my money's there as well.

Then send you money to Palestine. I'd rather my money be spent on American kids

 

[del]

a million for education sounds like a good idea, IMO.