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RAY HANANIA — Op-Ed writer, author, radio host, podcaster 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. 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. Click here to send Ray Hanania email. Follow RayHanania on Gettr.com, the uncensored Twitter Ray Hanania on Gettr, the new Twitter

Deal with Iran strengthens fight against injustice

Posted on July 15, 2015July 15, 2015 By rayhanania No Comments on Deal with Iran strengthens fight against injustice

American led deal with Iran will bring security and justice to the Middle East region. And that’s why Israel’s government is so against it. Israel’s government doesn’t want security. It wants tension. Tension and the threat of conflict justifies their fear-mongering and strengthens their ability to bully Americans to support their needs, and turn a blind eye towards Israel…

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Concern for Americans in Yemen Grows

Posted on July 14, 2015July 14, 2015 By rayhanania No Comments on Concern for Americans in Yemen Grows
Concern for Americans in Yemen Grows

The Detroit-based American Human Rights Council (AHRC) urges immediate attention to American citizens in Yemen as crisis there grows The American Human a Rights Council (AHRC-USA) expresses its serious concerns regarding American citizens and permanent residents who have been stranded in Yemen with no means or ability to depart Yemen due to the escalating conflict…

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Paris company releases new Yom Kippur war game app

Posted on July 14, 2015September 24, 2018 By rayhanania No Comments on Paris company releases new Yom Kippur war game app
Paris company releases new Yom Kippur war game app

The 1973 Arab-Israeli war briefly changed the dynamics of Israel’s hegemony over the Arab World, and pushed Israel to address its intransigence and refusal to recognize Arab rights. But it didn’t take long for Israel to compromise Egypt’s President Anwar Sadat with false promises of negotiating a comprehensive peace that would include a Palestine State….

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Egypt slides from Democracy into oppression

Posted on July 14, 2015July 14, 2015 By rayhanania 6 Comments on Egypt slides from Democracy into oppression

Since the Arab Spring crashed into Cairo’s Tahrir Square in 2011, Egypt has been on a roller coaster. Once the cornerstone of secularism in a world of growing religious extremism, Egypt could use some excesses to protect itself from the Islamic extremists. But in recent years, Egypt has not been discretionary in how it deals…

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Omar Sharif and pro-Israel Hollywood

Posted on July 12, 2015July 12, 2015 By rayhanania 1 Comment on Omar Sharif and pro-Israel Hollywood
Omar Sharif and pro-Israel Hollywood

Omar Sharif was one of the first Arab actors to appear in the biased anti-Arab arena of Hollywood. His talent took him past the bigotry that has denied Arabs roles in major motion pictures, excluded pro-Arab themes and narratives from Hollywood movies, and marginalized Arabs to the sidelines of a biased movie industry. But his legacy…

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Washington Report hosts major conference on Israeli lobby

Posted on July 12, 2015June 12, 2019 By rayhanania No Comments on Washington Report hosts major conference on Israeli lobby
Washington Report hosts major conference on Israeli lobby

The Washington Report on Middle East Affairs parent organization, the American Educational Trust, and the Institute for Research: Middle East Policy organized a national conference last April in Washington D.C. The conference included several prominent speakers with vast firsthand insight on the power of the Israeli Lobby and AIPAC. It was so important that the Washington…

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The Arab Daily News Radio & Podcast

Posted on July 10, 2015July 10, 2015 By rayhanania No Comments on The Arab Daily News Radio & Podcast

I’ve been doing radio for more than 40 years, first at the 50,000 WATT behemoth WLS AM in Chicago, and now at several stations around the country including now in Detroit on WNZK AM 690 and in Washington DC on AM 700 radio. American Arabs still continue to struggle to break into the mainstream news…

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Obituary: Omar Sharif, 1932-2015, the back story

Posted on July 10, 2015July 12, 2015 By rayhanania No Comments on Obituary: Omar Sharif, 1932-2015, the back story
Obituary: Omar Sharif, 1932-2015, the back story

Omar Sharif was one of the first Arab actors to appear in the biased anti-Arab arena of Hollywood. His talent took him past the bigotry that has denied Arabs roles in major motion pictures, excluded pro-Arab themes and narratives from Hollywood movies, and marginalized Arabs to the sidelines of a biased movie industry. But his legacy…

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Michael Oren’s hate campaign against Obama, peace

Posted on July 7, 2015September 24, 2018 By rayhanania No Comments on Michael Oren’s hate campaign against Obama, peace

Former Israel Ambassador to the United States, Michael Oren, is the point person in Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu’s hate campaign against President Barack Obama, and against the movement to bring peace. Oren’s attacks are a sophisticated strategy to broaden the assault against both Obama and peace, and cast critics of Israel’s extremist policies as “anti-Semites”…

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Egyptian American stars in new Cable series on Hacking

Posted on July 6, 2015May 1, 2019 By rayhanania 1 Comment on Egyptian American stars in new Cable series on Hacking
Egyptian American stars in new Cable series on Hacking

Egyptian American Hollywood actor Rami Malek stars in a new hit series “Mr. Robot” on high tech computer warfare and hacking broadcast on the USA Network on Cable Television. Malek joins a small exclusive club of American Arabs who have made it to Hollywood movie and television series fame. By Ray Hanania Every time I…

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The Fifty Day Dying: A Look Back at the War on Gaza

Posted on July 5, 2015September 24, 2018 By rayhanania No Comments on The Fifty Day Dying: A Look Back at the War on Gaza

In July 2014, Israel intentionally provoked a war against Hamas, as it has done several times since 2008, designed to punish Palestinian civilians by targeting their children, their homes and their infrastructure to discredit Hamas. Thousands of civilians, including children, were murdered by heavily armed Israeli soldiers who defended the huge civilian deaths by asserting that…

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ADC Michigan calls on removal of segregationist’s statue

Posted on July 5, 2015July 5, 2015 By rayhanania No Comments on ADC Michigan calls on removal of segregationist’s statue
ADC Michigan calls on removal of segregationist’s statue

Dearborn’s former mayor Orville Hubbard was a segregationist who many believe symbolized the resistance of Whites to Blacks during the height of the racial conflicts of the 1960s, one of the few openly anti-Black mayors of a Northern city. Now, nearly 40 years after he left office, Fatina Abdrabboh is urging the city to remove…

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Saudi Prince Alwaleed and Israel’s Sheldon Adelson

Posted on July 2, 2015September 29, 2018 By rayhanania 2 Comments on Saudi Prince Alwaleed and Israel’s Sheldon Adelson
Saudi Prince Alwaleed and Israel’s Sheldon Adelson

Saudi Arabia’s Prince Alwaleed Bin Talal Bin Abdulaziz Alsaud and Israel’s Sheldon Adelson have one thing in common. They both have billions. But there is a clear difference between the sinister Adelson who uses his money to undermine peace and justice in the Middle East and Alwaleed who has committed his riches to philanthropy. Sometimes,…

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Arab World, Bloggers, Commentary, Editors Picks, Israel, Palestine & Jordan, Ray Hanania

Obama gives Civil Rights in Israel a hard push

Posted on July 1, 2015July 1, 2015 By rayhanania No Comments on Obama gives Civil Rights in Israel a hard push
Obama gives Civil Rights in Israel a hard push

President Obama’s administration clearly attacked Israel’s extremists who insist that everything Israel does, including crimes, is good. While Obama does not support a boycott of Israel proper, the State Department issued a clarification reminding the world that it does not support the illegal settlements. The statement came out just as more American Christian Churches prepared to…

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Holy Land Principles steps up pressure for Fall vote

Posted on June 30, 2015June 30, 2015 By rayhanania No Comments on Holy Land Principles steps up pressure for Fall vote

Having gained the magic 3% of the vote for its Resolution at GE and Intel, Holy Land Principles Inc. is giving concentrated attention to Cisco. The giant high tech company will have its annual meeting in the Fall, when Holy Land Principles, Inc. will present its Resolution, urging Cisco to sign the Holy Land Principles….

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Adnan breaks fast, Israel seizes Freedom Flotilla flagship

Posted on June 29, 2015June 30, 2015 By rayhanania No Comments on Adnan breaks fast, Israel seizes Freedom Flotilla flagship

Blinding Justice: Palestinian Political Prisoner Breaks 55 Day Hunger Strike as Freedom Flotilla Flagship is Raided and Seized. Khader Adnan conducted a hunger strike to protest Israeli oppression and the occupation of Palestine, breaking the fast on his 55th day just as the Israeli government seized, in violation of international law, the Freedom Flotilla flagship By…

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Ban the Hate in America Not Just Its Symbols

Posted on June 25, 2015June 25, 2015 By rayhanania 1 Comment on Ban the Hate in America Not Just Its Symbols

Dylann Roof’s massacre of nine people at a South Carolina Church is just another example of how Americans close their eyes and refuse to politicize violence that reflects their culture but exaggerate the violence when it is committed by those they perceive as foreign. The debate over Roof has focused not on the origins of his White…

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Obama hosts Iftar in honor of Ramadan

Posted on June 23, 2015June 23, 2015 By rayhanania No Comments on Obama hosts Iftar in honor of Ramadan

President Obama hosted his annual Iftar dinner, a tradition at the White House originally started under the administration of former President Bill Clinton and organized by then First Lady Hillary Clinton. The guest list was inclusive and consisted of representatives of several American Muslim communities and also the diplomatic corp representing Islamic nations including those…

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