RAMALLAH Jan. 21 (JMCC) - Defense Minister Ehud Barak may have surprised some by designating as a university the college in Ariel settlement, but Yossi Sarid was not fooled.

Barak will be remembered - among other things - for his unique contribution to degrading higher education in Israel. Thanks to him, we will have the only university in the free world whose founders and owners are uniformed officers. Now those boycotting Israeli universities have a case - proof of the tightening knot between the occupation, military administration and academe.

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