Category: Arab World

USS Liberty Veterans: Christmas Email and New Year Letter

December 25, 2016January 2, 2017 USS_Liberty Info No Comments

USS Liberty Veterans Association President’s New Year Mission Letter and a survivors Christmas Email follow: By Eileen Fleming On Christmas Eve, USS Liberty Veteran and speaker Don Pageler emailed the following piece written by a peacekeeping soldier stationed overseas: The Night Before Christmas T’was the night before Christmas, He lived all alone, In a one…

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UN denounces illegal Israeli settlements

December 23, 2016February 10, 2017 rayhanania No Comments

UN denounces illegal Israeli settlements UN chief welcomes Security Council resolution on Israeli settlements as ‘significant step’ United Nations Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon today welcomed the adoption of a Security Council resolution which states that the establishment of Israeli settlements in Palestinian territory occupied since 1967, have “no legal validity,” constitute a “flagrant violation” under international…

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Arab League celebrates Arab women

December 23, 2016December 23, 2016 rayhanania No Comments

Arab League celebrates Arab women No Turning Back! League of Arab States celebrates Fifth Annual Arab-American Day honoring the Arab woman The grand entrance hall of the United States Institute of Peace overflowed the first week of December with hundreds of prominent men and women from government, academia, and business. They came to hear and…

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Arab Americans prepare to celebrate Christmas twice

December 23, 2016December 25, 2024 rayhanania No Comments

Arab Americans prepare to celebrate Christmas About half of Arab Christians celebrate the religious and secular holiday along with most mainstream Christians on Dec. 25, but the other half celebrates Christmas according to the old calendar two weeks later on Jan. 7. By Ray Hanania Christmas is both a time of Christian religious renewal as well…

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Prominent Muslim group slams Friedman nomination

December 21, 2016December 21, 2016 rayhanania 1 Comment

Prominent Muslim group slams Friedman nomination The American Muslims for Palestine slammed the nomination of David Friedman as US Ambassador to Israel, saying it is “wrong for America” President Elect Donald Trump’s nomination of David Friedman is not only short-sighted and potentially destabilizing, it undermines the United States’ self-proclaimed standing among its global partners as…

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Children among those evacuated from Eastern Aleppo, Syria

December 21, 2016December 21, 2016 rayhanania No Comments

Children among those evacuated from Eastern Aleppo, Syria Bana Alabed Among Many Child Evacuees Today from Eastern Aleppo Thousands of people from the besieged area of Aleppo were evacuated today, the majority of the people were children, women and families. Among the children was Bana Alabed the seven-year-old girl, who caught the attention and hearts…

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Arab, European diplomats affirm Israeli settlements as illegal

December 21, 2016December 21, 2016 rayhanania No Comments

Arab, European diplomats affirm Israeli settlements as illegal Declaration adopted at the Fourth League of Arab States – European Union Ministerial Meeting in Brussels The Ministers of Foreign Affairs of the European Union (EU) and of the League of Arab States (LAS), gathering at the League of Arab States headquarters on December 20, 2016 in Cairo,…

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Mordechai Vanunu Newstip Declined by #NYT #BreakingNews #Israel #Nuclear #WhistleBlower #Vanunu

December 21, 2016October 13, 2018 USS_Liberty Info No Comments

UPDATE: On January 18 Israel convicts Vanunu on 1 nonsense charge and not guilty on two UPDATE: On Sunday 15 Jan. Vanunu wrote at Facebook: Latest update with my new trial,on Jan’ 18,2017.I will be in israel court,peace court,in the Russians compound, jerusalem, at 9:30* .This Wednesday, the judge will give us his verdict of the…

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Algeria At The Crossroads, Normal Bro!

December 21, 2016December 21, 2016 Abdennour Toumi No Comments

Algeria At The Crossroads, Normal Bro! The adjective “normal,” so endlessly repeated, is a tool the people are over-using or simply misusing as a conditioned response to the general sociopolitical mood of the country. By Abdennour Toumi I have been thinking about reporting on my stay here in Algeria. The Arab Daily News readers in…

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CPJ: Record 259 journalists jailed around the world

December 13, 2016January 9, 2019 rayhanania 1 Comment

CPJ: Record 259 journalists jailed around the world A total of 259 journalists are currently in jails in 31 countries, including 53 jailed in the Middle East. The report from the Committee to Protect Journalists notes that Turkey has the largest number of jailed journalists, 81, followed by China, with 38. Despite political criticism of Russia, that…

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Christians denounce Cairo church bombing

December 12, 2016December 13, 2016 rayhanania No Comments

Christians denounce Cairo church bombing Coptic Solidarity Strongly Condemns Brutal Bombing of St. Peter’s Church in Cairo Coptic Solidarity condemns in the strongest terms the brutal attack of December 11 on St. Peter and St. Paul church – adjacent to the Coptic Papal Seat of St Mark Cathedral – which resulted in the deaths of…

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Rabbi Hoffman’s ‘Mordechai Vanunu: Nuclear Whistleblower, Traitor, Apostate’ and The TRUTH

December 9, 2016August 20, 2019 USS_Liberty Info No Comments

Rabbi is defined as a Jewish scholar or teacher. By Eileen Fleming Rabbi Evan Hoffman’s lecture Mordechai Vanunu: Nuclear Whistleblower, Traitor, Apostate streaming at The Marcos and Adina Katz YUTotah Online site is NOT scholarly; But it is a slanderous screed of Vanunu rife with erroneous historical facts. The YU Torah Online site is paid…

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A Free Vanunu Ends The Legend of Vanunu and The Final Chapter

December 4, 2016October 30, 2018 USS_Liberty Info No Comments

Nuclear Whistle Blower Mordechai Vanunu’s July 4th trial reconvenes on 22 December Vanunu has been growing his legend at FaceBook where he wrote: After 30 years in Israel prison the new trial started [on 4 July 2016] from the big trial of exposing Israel Atomic weapons secrets [in 1986-87] to new chargers about moving apartment…

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Reviving the Culture of Hamra Street in Lebanon

November 29, 2016September 25, 2018 rayhanania No Comments

Reclaiming the culture of Lebanon with culture and art: reviving Hamra Street with graffiti. By: Kerning Cultures Yazan Halwani is a street artist, still in his early 20s. Over the past year, I’ve met with Yazan a few times, following his work closely and always, with great admiration. When I finally got to sit down with him…

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Dear Darling Jared Kushner and Observer Media

November 25, 2016November 25, 2016 USS_Liberty Info No Comments

Jared Kushner became known as “the eyes and ears” of Donald Trump during the campaign and he is now expected to play a key role in efforts to bring peace to the Middle East. By Eileen Fleming Jared Kushner is the grandson of Holocaust survivors and he was raised in an Orthodox Jewish household. Trump’s…

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Mordechai Vanunu Could Be Free for Christmas

November 22, 2016August 20, 2019 USS_Liberty Info No Comments

Mordechai Vanunu Israeli Nuclear Whistle Blower announced at Twitter on Tuesday that his July 4th indictment will continue on 22 December: Read More about Mordechai Vanunu’s July 4 indictment at 30 Years a Hostage In my 6th book, Heroes, Muses and the Saga of Mordechai Vanunu, I wrote: In my third book, I…

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Blue Collar White Americans Spoke and Hired Donald Trump

November 17, 2016November 17, 2016 Abdennour Toumi No Comments

Blue Collar White Americans Spoke and Hired Donald Trump The Americans’ political civility and the judiciary system’s credibility are always seen as a model in the world. By Abdennour Toumi The shock remains, but the country must move forward one week after American voters hired President-elect Trump in his new “unpaid” job. The on-going Trump…

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Rebranding ourselves as “Arabs” in the new Trump era

November 17, 2016June 12, 2019 rayhanania No Comments

Rebranding ourselves as “Arabs” in the new Trump era Why Arabs need to reinforce their identification as “Arabs” rather than as Muslims in the new era of President Donald Trump. Branding ourselves as Arabs will also help us fight the religious extremists and counter the rising anti-Muslim fears in the West and in the United States …

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