Arab Radio looks at American evacuation of Afghanistan to the Taliban
Guests include US Rep. Betty McCollum and Iraqi columnist Dalia AlAqidi on the US Arab Radio Network sponsored by Arab News Newspaper, and broadcast in Detroit on WNZK AM 690 and in Washington DC on WDMV AM 700. View the Zoom Video of the radio show interview below
Zoom Video of this morning’s #ArabRadio show on #USArabRadioNetwork sponsored by @ArabNews in Detroit and Washington DC. Guests included Congresswoman #BettyMcCollum (pre-taped) on #Afghanistan, and Israel and Palestine, and Iraqi journalist #DaliaAlAqidi on #Iraq and Afghanistan and #Taliban. Did we make a mistake leaving?
Congresswoman Betty McCollum discusses both the US withdrawal from Afghanistan in a pre-taped interview conducted the morning of the terrorist attacks in Kabul that took 13 American lives and more than 100 other civilians in Segment One of the live radio show.
McCollum reveals that the U.S. was wanted of an imminent terrorist attack. She also discusses her demands that the White House make Israel accountable for the billions of dollars in taxpayer funds that we give Israel each year and demand that they adhere to human rights fundamentals and end oppression of the Palestinian people.
McCollum, the Minnesota representatives from the 4th Congressional District, has become a strong voice for human rights in Palestine.
In Segment 2, Iraqi American columnist Dalia AlAqidi talks about Iraq 18 years after the invasion and the ramifications of how President Joe Biden withdrew from Afghanistan leaving hundreds of millions of dollars of American military equipment to the Taliban, our former sworn enemy.
AlAqidi warns that the stumbled withdrawal by the Biden administration will cost Democrats seat sin the mid-term congressional elections.
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Ray Hanania is an award winning political and humor columnist who analyzes American and Middle East politics, and life in general. He is an author of several books.
Hanania covered Chicago Politics and Chicago City Hall from 1976 through 1992 at the Daily Southtown and the Chicago Sun-Times. He began writing in 1975 publishing The Middle Eastern Voice newspaper in Chicago (1975-1977). He later published “The National Arab American Times” newspaper (2004-2007).
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Hanania is the recipient of four (4) Chicago Headline Club “Peter Lisagor Awards” for Column writing. In November 2006, he was named “Best Ethnic American Columnist” by the New American Media. In 2009, Hanania received the prestigious Sigma Delta Chi Award for Writing from the Society of Professional Journalists. He is the recipient of the MT Mehdi Courage in Journalism Award. He was honored for his writing skills with two (2) Chicago Stick-o-Type awards from the Chicago Newspaper Guild. In 1990, Hanania was nominated by the Chicago Sun-Times editors for a Pulitzer Prize for his four-part series on the Palestinian Intifada.
His writings have also been honored by two national Awards from ADC for his writing, and from the National Arab American Journalists Association.
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Ray Hanania is an award winning political and humor columnist who analyzes American and Middle East politics, and life in general. He is an author of several books.
Hanania covered Chicago Politics and Chicago City Hall from 1976 through 1992 at the Daily Southtown and the Chicago Sun-Times. He began writing in 1975 publishing The Middle Eastern Voice newspaper in Chicago (1975-1977). He later published “The National Arab American Times” newspaper (2004-2007).
Hanania writes weekly columns on Middle East and American Arab issues as Special US Correspondent for the Arab News ArabNews.com, at TheArabDailyNews.com, and at SuburbanChicagoland.com. He has published weekly columns in the Jerusalem Post newspaper, YNetNews.com, Newsday, the Orlando Sentinel, Houston Chronical, and Arlington Heights Daily Herald.
Hanania is the recipient of four (4) Chicago Headline Club “Peter Lisagor Awards” for Column writing. In November 2006, he was named “Best Ethnic American Columnist” by the New American Media. In 2009, Hanania received the prestigious Sigma Delta Chi Award for Writing from the Society of Professional Journalists. He is the recipient of the MT Mehdi Courage in Journalism Award. He was honored for his writing skills with two (2) Chicago Stick-o-Type awards from the Chicago Newspaper Guild. In 1990, Hanania was nominated by the Chicago Sun-Times editors for a Pulitzer Prize for his four-part series on the Palestinian Intifada.
His writings have also been honored by two national Awards from ADC for his writing, and from the National Arab American Journalists Association.
Hanania is the US Special Correspondent for the Arab News Newspaper, covering Middle East and Arab American issues. He writes for the Southwest News newspaper group writing on mainstream American issues.
Click here to send Ray Hanania email.
Follow RayHanania on Gettr.com, the uncensored Twitter Ray Hanania on Gettr, the new Twitter
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