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Sharon and Hamas: How the Likud Bloc Mid-wifed the Birth of Hamas

Posted on July 27, 2014October 9, 2023 By rayhanania 2 Comments on Sharon and Hamas: How the Likud Bloc Mid-wifed the Birth of Hamas
Sharon and Hamas: How the Likud Bloc Mid-wifed the Birth of Hamas

Sharon and Hamas: How the Likud Bloc Mid-wifed the Birth of Hamas by Ray Hanania (January 2003) (Click here to view PDF with sourced footnote citations.) Hamas is considered one of Israel’s greatest threats, but the Islamic terrorist organization found its beginnings in the misguided Israeli effort to encourage the rise of a religious alternative that would undermine…

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Arab World, Bloggers, Commentary, Features, Israel, Opinion, Palestine & Jordan, Ray Hanania, Spotlight

Israel Broadcast Authority refuses to broadcast names of dead Palestinian children

Posted on July 24, 2014September 24, 2018 By rayhanania No Comments on Israel Broadcast Authority refuses to broadcast names of dead Palestinian children

Israel Broadcast Authority refuses to broadcast names of dead Palestinian children By Ray Hanania Reminiscent of the vicious racist policies of the Apartheid Government of South Africa, the Israeli Broadcast Authority rejected an advertisement that would have read aloud over Israeli radio the names of Palestinian children murdered by Israeli soldiers in their brutal assault…

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Arab World, Bloggers, Commentary, News, Palestine & Jordan, Ray Hanania

Video proves Israeli targeted and killed four Palestinian children on Gaza beach

Posted on July 17, 2014September 24, 2018 By Ali Younes No Comments on Video proves Israeli targeted and killed four Palestinian children on Gaza beach

Video proves Israeli targeted and killed four Palestinian children on Gaza beach By Ali Younes Israeli planes targeted the four young children killed and then blamed Hamas for it. International news media reported that the four young victims were playing on the beach near where they live when Israeli planes fired at their location for…

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Ali Younes, Arab World, Bloggers, Commentary, Video

Future of Taybeh’s OktoberFest in question, writer says

Posted on June 27, 2014September 24, 2018 By Maria Khoury No Comments on Future of Taybeh’s OktoberFest in question, writer says

The Oktoberfest Controversy: Future of Taybeh’s OktoberFest in question By Maria C. Khoury The Taybeh Oktoberfest was the craziest idea anyone  could ever have for an event in Palestine.  During very harsh conditions of closure behind  a separation wall and hundreds of checkpoints all around a little Palestinian village, who can imagine trying to initiate a…

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Arab World, Bloggers, Commentary, Maria Khoury, Palestine & Jordan, Spotlight

Campaign to silence Christians who challenge Arab World discrimination

Posted on May 24, 2014August 20, 2019 By rayhanania 5 Comments on Campaign to silence Christians who challenge Arab World discrimination
Campaign to silence Christians who challenge Arab World discrimination

Campaign to silence Christians who challenge Arab World discrimination By Ray Hanania Since as long as I have been speaking out for Palestinian rights and against Israeli oppression, I have also been challenging the refusal of the Arab World to address the equally serious issue of extremist Muslim persecution of Christians. HASHTAG ALERT:  #FreeMidEastChristians  …

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Pro-Israel propaganda keeps Americans stupid when it comes to Israel-Palestine

Posted on April 24, 2014August 20, 2019 By rayhanania No Comments on Pro-Israel propaganda keeps Americans stupid when it comes to Israel-Palestine
Pro-Israel propaganda keeps Americans stupid when it comes to Israel-Palestine

Pro-Israel propaganda keeps Americans stupid when it comes to Israel-Palestine By Ray Hanania I came across a really stupid letter in the Columbia Dispatch newspaper this morning. Letter writer Barbara Doll (“U.S. is inconsistent in reaction to Crimea,” April 8) compared Israel’s presence in Palestine to Russia taking over Crimea. There is no comparison. Assuming…

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Arab World, Bloggers, Commentary, Palestine & Jordan, Ray Hanania

Taybeh Christian Palestinians celebrate: Receiving the Holy Fire Once Again

Posted on April 19, 2014September 24, 2018 By Maria Khoury 1 Comment on Taybeh Christian Palestinians celebrate: Receiving the Holy Fire Once Again
Taybeh Christian Palestinians celebrate: Receiving the Holy Fire Once Again

Taybeh Christian Palestinians celebrate: Receiving the Holy Fire Once Again By Maria C. Khoury, Ed.D. We have just celebrated the Miracle of the Holy Fire in Taybeh in a most magnificent way at the outskirts of our village approximately  5:30 pm local time on this Great and Holy Saturday while waiting all afternoon when this…

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Arab World, Bloggers, Commentary, Features, Maria Khoury, Palestine & Jordan, religion, Spotlight

Armenian American celebrity Kim Kardashian boosts Syrian dictator Assad

Posted on April 4, 2014January 9, 2019 By Ali Younes No Comments on Armenian American celebrity Kim Kardashian boosts Syrian dictator Assad

Armenian American celebrity Kim Kardashian boosts Syrian dictator Assad By Ali Younes and Sadallah Mahmoud While the mainstream American news media is no longer  providing any in depth coverage of the  raging civil war in Syria or the atrocities that has been committed by the Syrian regime or his extremist Al Qaida-linked opponents, two tweets by American…

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Ali Younes, Arab World, Bloggers, Commentary, Entertainment, News, Syria

America and Saudi Women Again!

Posted on April 2, 2014June 12, 2019 By rayhanania 1 Comment on America and Saudi Women Again!

America and Saudi Women Again! By Sheikha Al Dosary Before President Obama visited Saudi Arabia this last weekend, he was urged by 70 members of Congress who signed a bipartisan letter to raise critical human rights cases in Saudi Arabia. They also advised him to meet with Saudi female activists. Amnesty International also asked him…

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Arab World, Bloggers, Commentary, Gulf States

Ustar Erdoğan, Stronger Than Ever

Posted on April 2, 2014September 24, 2018 By Abdennour Toumi No Comments on Ustar Erdoğan, Stronger Than Ever

Ustar Erdoğan, Stronger Than Ever By Abdennour Toumi Contrary to all expectations of the opposition and the media, even in light of the Taqsim Square protests, the charges of corruption, the national security leaks, and the bold decision to ban social media, nothing prevented the AK Party from achieving a landslide victory in Sunday’s municipal…

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Abdennour Toumi, Arab World, Bloggers, Commentary, Spotlight

Jordan King Abdullah II urges building on privatization review panel findings

Posted on April 2, 2014September 24, 2018 By rayhanania No Comments on Jordan King Abdullah II urges building on privatization review panel findings
Jordan King Abdullah II urges building on privatization review panel findings

Jordan King Abdullah II urges building on privatization review panel findings AMMAN — His Majesty King Abdullah on Sunday stressed the importance of building on the outcome of the Privatisation Evaluation Committee (PEC) report by utilising its results in drawing up economic strategies, and boosting the partnership between the public and the private sectors. During…

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Arab World, News, Palestine & Jordan, Ray Hanania

King Abdullah receives U.S. President Barak Obama

Posted on April 2, 2014September 24, 2018 By rayhanania No Comments on King Abdullah receives U.S. President Barak Obama
King Abdullah receives U.S. President Barak Obama

King Abdullah receives U.S. President Barak Obama The Custodian of the Two Holy Mosques King Abdullah bin Abdulaziz received U.S. President Barak Obama on March 28, 2014 at his residence in Rawdat Khuraim, on the outskirts of Riyadh. President Obama began his visit to the Kingdom earlier today. At King Khalid International Airport, he was greeted by Riyadh…

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Saudi King Abdullah rearranges the line of Succession to the Saudi throne

Posted on March 31, 2014June 12, 2019 By Ali Younes No Comments on Saudi King Abdullah rearranges the line of Succession to the Saudi throne
Saudi King Abdullah rearranges the line of Succession to the Saudi throne

Saudi King Abdullah rearranges the line of Succession to the Saudi throne By Ali Younes Prince Muqrin Bin Abdelaziz is set as the future­­ King of Saudi Arabia, and the last one of his generation In an unprecedented move King Abdullah of Saudi Arabia appointed Prince Muqrin Bin Abdelaziz Al Saud, 68, as the Second…

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Ali Younes, Arab World, Bloggers, Commentary

Baby son who slain Judge Raed Zeiter tried to help dies in Amman hospital

Posted on March 30, 2014September 24, 2018 By rayhanania No Comments on Baby son who slain Judge Raed Zeiter tried to help dies in Amman hospital
Baby son who slain Judge Raed Zeiter tried to help dies in Amman hospital

Baby son who slain Judge Raed Zeiter tried to help dies in Amman hospital By Ali Younes Alaedinne Zeiter, the 5-year-old comatose son of Jordan’s magistrate judge who was shot and killed by Israeli soldiers on March 10, Raed Zeiter, was pronounced dead in a Jordanian hospital in Amman from brain injuries that he suffered few weeks before…

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Ali Younes, Arab World, News, Palestine & Jordan

Egypt journalist shot dead covering clashes

Posted on March 30, 2014September 24, 2018 By rayhanania No Comments on Egypt journalist shot dead covering clashes
Egypt journalist shot dead covering clashes

Egypt journalist shot dead covering clashes By Ray Hanania Another Middle East journalist lost her life this week, this time while covering the continued conflict between the Military Coup government in Egypt and the Muslim Brotherhood which many nations have condemned as a terrorist organization. The killing brings to 1,052 journalists killed around the world,…

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Arab World, Features, News Media, North Africa, Ray Hanania

Saudi denial of visa for Israeli journalist not the real issue

Posted on March 29, 2014August 20, 2019 By rayhanania No Comments on Saudi denial of visa for Israeli journalist not the real issue

Saudi denial of visa for Israeli journalist not the real issue By Ray Hanania (Creators Syndicate, March 28, 2014. Click here to read the Arabic version of this column) This week, the mainstream American news media went berserk when it was disclosed that the Washington Bureau chief of the Israeli Jerusalem Post was denied an…

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Arab World, Bloggers, Commentary, News Media, Palestine & Jordan, Ray Hanania

Egyptians insult Qatar Emir’s mother at Arab Summit

Posted on March 27, 2014September 24, 2018 By Ali Younes 1 Comment on Egyptians insult Qatar Emir’s mother at Arab Summit

Egyptians insult Qatar Emir’s mother at Arab Summit By Ali Younes In a vicious  attack on Qatar and its Emir, Sheikh Tamim Bin Hamad, Egyptian talk show host, Mohammed Al-Gheiti blasted him for sitting “inappropriately” while Egyptian interim president  Adly Mansour was speaking during the Arab Summit now convened in Kuwait. The host  said to…

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Ali Younes, Arab World, Bloggers, Commentary, Spotlight

Israel: “ We never apologized to the Jordanians”

Posted on March 26, 2014September 24, 2018 By Ali Younes No Comments on Israel: “ We never apologized to the Jordanians”

Israel: “ We never apologized to the Jordanians” Jordanian officials: “ Whatever the Israelis said, we considered it an apology” By Ali Younes In the aftermath of the murder of judge Raed Zeiter on March 10,  Jordanians reacted with angry  protests demonstrations against  their government’s reaction which was described by protesters as “ cowardice” ,…

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Ali Younes, Arab World, Bloggers, Commentary, News, Palestine & Jordan

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