why can't they go through egypt???

Let them go thru Egypt.

in January 2009?

blame the guilty, not israel.

I'm sure Gilad Shalit would like to also step out of Gaza. Someone go tell HAMAS to let Shalit free or figure out a way to start providing educational services to their own population.

I read they disassemble cars and take them through the tunnels. So this is just another PR trick. They can also ask Mubarak to let them in, all Arabs are like family, right?

or go through the tunnels they have dugged?

Nice point! Good bargaining chip, too. These Gazan "scholarship students" can leave, once Gilad Shalit is repatriated. Seems perfectly fair to me.

Why can't gaza students leave through the egypt border? israel is under no oblgation to provide safe passage since gazans says they want israel destroyed and applaud suicide bombing. Go out through egypt. What is this?if you get rid of hamas and make peace with israel then israel can assist you. This is like goldstone all over again.

Why doesn't Egypt open their border to Gaza. Who stops them and why?

"According the Gesher advocacy group, the students cannot leave the Strip due to the Israeli blockade on Gaza. " Can someone in the editorial division of this web site explain to me how Israel blockades Gaza along the Gaza border with Egypt? Please explain, pleeeeeeeeease!

oh, egypt doesn't want them either? why would that be? maybe its the tendency of palestinians to explode?

Isn't Gaza still at war with Israel?

WHY? these kind of action only help support the Goldstone report in that Israel wanted to punish Gaza as much at stopping the rockets. The world opinion is turning against Israel for actions like this.

These maybe the new leaders of Gaza someday do you want them to join Hamas or learn that there maybe a better way.

These students are no better off than Iranian students. Even if they did oppose the Hamas terror regime in Gaza (most unlikely) they would probably be hunted down, jailed, tortured, and executed, just like the students in Iran. But of course when it is Muslim oppression, that's considered legitimate in the eyes of Western society and the Muslim world.

You have all officially taken decades of steps in the wrong direction with your grossly stereotypical and benign comments. The fact that there are university students in Gaza who are interested in traveling abroad in order to broaden their education is something we absolutely should appreciate and be happy about. It is these Gazans that Israelis should be interested in getting to know. Hamas are an UNeducated, ignorant-to-th-outside-world breed of terrorists; Gazan university students interested in Europe seem to me to be quite the opposite. It seems best that if you'd prefer to blindly reject all Gazans like the stereotypical Israelis that the rest of the world thinks we are, then you're making a big mistake in your efforts to build a beneficial relationship with the right people.

the university but he can't. so let them cry that's the only thing they r good at.

it doesn't really matter what Israel does one way or another. Actually, should Israeli military start using Gaza civilians for a target practice, Golstone's report would be unchanged, only under those changed circumstances true. The world opinion, molded by petro-dollar- bought PR and by KGB masters molding little 'progressive' minds, is so anti-Israel that it cannot turn against Israel any further. I am afraid that you have overplayed your hand -- Israel has absolutely nothing to gain by being nicer to Arabs -- Israelis never get any thank you for their humaneness , just more demands and more abuse.

I don't care if gazans get education; I care that Shalit returns home alive and well and that children of Sderot don't have to live under constant rocket attacks. And as aside, I don't want those 'students' coming to the US -- another practitioner of the 'religion of peace' was just arrested for trying to bomb Boston shopping mall. Let them get educated in Gaza - Israelis built them an university in Gaza, so they have a place to study.

Nice work by you Alana. At last, somebody sane and humane from Israel!

Israel bombed the universities in Gaza, AK. Israel won't allow teachers into Gaza AK.