Thankfully, Winston Churchill was unafraid of "making waves", when he confronted Hitler. Rather than appeasing him. Let's "make waves" about Judea and Samaria. This land is ours. We can prove it's ours, to the complete satisfaction of every person of good will. End of discussion.

Mazal tov to Ariel University.

The current 7 university heads are leftist hypocrites who are only thinking about their own selfish interests. Their motivations are political. They have no right to try to influence the PM. Ariel University will benefit Israel & higher education.

In the heart of Samaria,national ceaseless of the Jewish Nation By the way,what is west bank?bank leukocyte competitor? Lol!

and we simply obliged to behave accordingly, not fearing what some stinker, whether located inside the country or outside it, is going to say. Mazal tov, Ariel!

And just a quick question to the heads of those seven universities: 1) Why is Israel within pre-1967 "borders" more Jewish than Judea and Samaria? All of Israel is our historical homeland - no matter if we are talking about the hills of Judea and Samaria or some retarded Left Wing Liberal Kadima loving, Avodah loving or Meretz loving, Jew hating, Arab loving, self hating Jews drinking coffee in northern Tel Aviv by the sea discussing nonsense and espousing same sex marriage, prostitution or drugs. Tel Aviv and Judea and Samaria - it's Israel, our ancient homeland. 2) Forgive my language, but how the hell can Israel's edcuation be jeopardized by granting Ariel University a university status? The quality of the education is not declining, you are just afraid to make waves and claim what is rightfully our land. In most countries you would be called traitors. And traitors you are. And spineless cowards too. Damned spineless coward Leftist traitors never missing an opportunity to stab our country in the back. It's quite telling that the heads of the universities said NO but most students said YES.

and that is never a good thing. (I don't care where the school is located I care about how this went down...and it went down the wrong way and we are all going to pay for it) just watch for it.

...was not subjected to peer review by other universities here or abroad and therefore is a community college rather than a university...they cannot get research grants from abroad like other universities, but the philosopher Steinitz will fund their pathetic attempts to engage in research from our tax money, just like the kolelim

1. Ignoring Abbas and Fayyad 2. The Levy Committee Report 3. Ariel University Center of Samaria Baruch Ha'Shem, annexation of Judea and Samaria is not far off. Scheheheyanu!

Over 11,000 students, including several hundred Arabs. Over 200 engaged in research. How is Ariel less worthy of being termed a university than the U of Haifa? I already give to Weizmann, even more to Technion. As soon as a few university heads started talking of boycotting Ariel I decided that Ariel merited my support.

...anything less is Apartheid.

Already today - many students of Ariel College (now - Ariel University) are West-Bank Arabs! many live in the dorms, some prefer to come everyday from their home to Ariel by bus/car.

ariel university is full of west bank arab students. you moron. 32% of ariel is arab palestinian. do your research before you spout your uninformed drivel. hameed aboughaze

They can't get peer review until they are a university, nor can they get research grants without being a university. So you complaints are rather stupid. They have to be a university before any of those things can happen.

#14 Michael. You don't get it. Jews aren't afraid of Big Bad Obama. Jews aren't afraid of leftist demographic lies. The whole phony "Peace Now" world is falling apart. It most definitely won't be missed.

Annex all of Judea and Samaria! Build more Jewish homes and schools.

Calling it a university does not make it a university any more than calling it a cabbage makes it a cabbage. Watch the academic world react.

I believe that you only pretend to be stupid. What is the connection of your response to my point that the Ariel "community college" has extremely low academic standards ?

I have no problem with the new status of the Ariel University provided it complies with the criteria laid down by the Higher Education Council. As for the Peace thing, well, anyone who believes that the Arabs want peace is living in a dreamworld! However, a few years ago the Likud blocked plans for the establishment of a university in the Galilee which is also in Israel. A simple question to Minister of Education Gidon Saar" WHY, A we in the Galilee, under the constant threat of Hezbollah, still regarded by the Government as Second Class Citizens because we have a large population of "minorities"?