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"What is happening is an attack on the orphans themselves: several months ago, the army confiscated various machines with an estimated monetary value of $2 million," al-Bakri told the Maan News Agency. "This factory is essential for the services, and charitable aid we provide."He added that the society contacted its legal advisor, lawyer Jawad Boulos, who informed them that Israel alleges the factory, and the charitable society are "run by Hamas".
"In 1920 H.G. Wells wrote, 'History is becoming more and more a race between education and catastrophe.' I think he got it right. Nothing is more important to the future of the United States and the world than the breadth and effectiveness of education, especially of higher education. I say especially higher education, but not because pre- school, elementary, and secondary education are less important. Success at every level of education obviously depends on what has gone before. But for better or worse, the quality of postsecondary education and research affects the quality and effectiveness of education at every level."In the last few years, conversations have been growing like gathering storm clouds about the ways in which our universities are failing. There is talk about the poor educational outcomes apparent in our graduates, the out-of-control tuition and crippling student loan debt. Attention is finally being paid to the enormous salaries for presidents and sports coaches, and the migrant worker status of the low-wage majority faculty. There are movements to control tuition, to forgive student debt, to create more powerful "assessment" tools, to offer "free" university materials online, to combat adjunct faculty exploitation. But each of these movements focuses on a narrow aspect of a much wider problem, and no amount of "fix" for these aspects individually will address the real reason that universities in America are dying.
Comment: If you think Israel targeting Palestinian orphans is new, think again. In 2008, for example, hundreds of Israeli occupation troops stormed a Palestinian orphanage and boarding school in Hebron and looted millions of dollars worth of food, dairy products, clothes, shoes, refrigerators, kitchen equipment, crates of frozen meat, sanitary supplies, sports equipment, blankets and mattresses...used by as many as 7,000 orphans, run by the Islamic Charitable Society. They forced open the main gate and loaded everything on trucks in order to liquidate social and educational infrastructures at the price of innocent children. On this same rampage, Israel confiscated several school buildings, an orphanage, a supermarket, several apartment buildings, school busses and destroyed other businesses - - looting computers, cabinets, furniture, appliances and even taking the windows. This was organized robbery. Gestapo style. Heartless. Pathological.