Part of the scenery I guess. You know how they are....

http://www.camera.org/index.asp?x_co...x_article=2109

From news article:

Last month, the New York Times reported on Hamas's decision to prevent Palestinians from studying in the United States. The article brought to mind a nearly identical story, reported in the same newspaper several years earlier, about Israel preventing Gazan students from traveling to U.S. universities. In both instances, the newspaper reported that seven Palestinian students were awarded scholarships to study in the U.S. In the earlier case involving Israel, they were granted Fulbright scholarships administered by the non-profit Amideast, while in the latter case involving Hamas, it was a Youth Exchange and Study program sponsored by Amideast. In both cases, the students were disappointed to learn that they could not leave Gaza. If anything, the recent incident involving Hamas was more noteworthy, since Hamas admitted it made an intentional decision to prevent the students from being exposed to other societies, whereas Israel's decision seemed as much a result of bureaucratic blundering as a policy reflecting the government's philosophy. Indeed, four of the students blocked by Israel were eventually allowed to travel to the U.S. Three others were linked to Hamas and deemed security risks. But while the article about Hamas amounted to 669-words buried on page 8 of the newspaper's late edition, the piece about Israel was highlighted prominently on the front page and, at 1243 words, was nearly twice as long. Why, in the eyes of the newspaper, was one story so much more important than the other?