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World community should do more than rejecting Israel’s baseless terrorist accusation against Palestinian NGOs By Ghassan Michel Rubeiz Israel continues to invent methods to silence voices of justice, using the “law of the land” as a pretext. A policy of discouraging Palestinian civil society is bound to encourage alternative methods of resistance: possibly a third…
Demonizing Palestinian NGOs unjustly: a regressive step for Israel By Ghassan Michel Rubeiz In criminalizing law-abiding Palestinian NGOs (Non Governmental Organizations), Israel has gravely miscalculated. Managing an expanding occupation, Tel-Aviv leaders feel increasingly threatened by justice-seeking groups, which are driven by the power of local knowledge. On October 22 Israel declared that six local Palestinian…
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2021 General Elections are Over: Time to Reconcile, Work Together and Move Forward No doubt that this year’s general elections that was held on Tuesday, November 2, 2021 was one most important and most contested in a number of cities across the state of Michigan, notably in Dearborn, Dearborn Heights and Hamtramck for Arab and…
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Lebanese political system cannot fix itself, responsible external assistance is badly needed By Ghassan Michel Rubeiz The Lebanese civil war has ended, but could it start again? If civil war reignites, Lebanon will easily pass from a “failing” to a “failed” state. Abandoned by the international community, this Mediterranean country, once called the Switzerland of…
AHRC Executive Director Awarded the TSA Certificate of Appreciation The American Human Rights Council (AHRC-USA) congratulates its Executive Director Mr. Imad Hamad on being awarded the 2021 TSA Certificate of Appreciation. This award is a recognition of Mr. Hamad’s constructive and professional working relationship and partnership with the Transportation Security Administration (TSA) in Michigan. The…
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9/11 Attacks, Twenty Years After: Where is the Wisdom? By Imad Hamad This September 11 is the 20th anniversary of the 9/11/2001 terror attacks. Twenty years is a long time. What are the lessons of the nation’s response to the attacks? The mistakes? The attacks shocked the country. In response to the vile attacks, George…
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To mark the twentieth anniversary of 9/11, President Biden will visit the attack sites in New York, Virginia and Pennsylvania. Families of hundreds of 9/11 victims told Biden to stay away unless he declassified government evidence that could link Saudi Arabia to the attack. By Eileen Fleming President Biden on Friday signed an executive order to…
AHRC Congratulates MMCC for receiving FBI Director’s Leadership Award: The American Human Rights Council (AHRC-USA) extends its congratulations to the Michigan Muslim Community Council’s (MMCC) entire team and its chairman Dr. Mahmoud Al-Hadidi for receiving the FBI Director’s 2021 Community Leadership Award (DCLA). The formal award ceremony was held on Monday, August 23, 2021 at the FBI’s Detroit field…
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Lebanon’s power sharing scheme is no longer sustainable By Ghassan Michel Rubeiz Here is a recent Lebanon headline: Optimism on government formation surges. Over the last year, news about cabinet formation has run like a weather forecast. More than ever before, people inside and outside Lebanon are asking if the state is approaching total collapse….
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Dearborn Heights: It is over-due to Remove the Hollow Trees By Imad Hamad Dearborn Heights has a serious public safety problem. The very old trees are like ticking bombs that go off every time that we deal with heavy rain, high winds and harsh weather, hurting people’s property. This problem is exacerbated by the unusual harsh weather. It is the climate crisis and the…
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Losing Michigan’s Senator Carl Levin By Imad Hamad On July 29, former US Senator Carl Levin, the longest serving member of US Senate in Michigan history, died. His death follows the death of another giant of Michigan and American politics, Congressman John Dingell. The death of Senator Carl Levin, just like Dingell’s death, were personal…
Michigan’s Primary Elections, August 3rd: Charting the Future of Our Communities By Imad Hamad The American Human Rights Council (AHRC-USA) urges all registered voters to participate in the upcoming primary elections that will be held on Tuesday, August 3, 2021 across the state of Michigan. This year’s primary elections is extremely important to different key cities such as…
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No easy solution for Lebanon By Ghassan Michel Rubeiz Lebanese President Michel Aoun is expected to announce next week his choice of a new prime minister designate. Who is willing to assume the task of forming a cabinet to address Lebanon’s huge problems? There is talk about the possible designation of Najib Mikati, a former…
Dearborn Mayor O’Reilly, Thank you for all you have done By Imad Hamad Once one becomes part of public life, he lives in the public eye and under the microscope. There is praise sometimes, criticism other times. Some of it is fair, some unfair. It comes with the territory of being a public figure. Indeed,…
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Salvaging Israeli-Palestinian Peace By Ghassan Michel Rubeiz For how long will peace between Palestinians and Israelis remain viable? For one thing, with the passage of time their leaders are not getting smarter. The world is glad to see less of Netanyahu’s diplomacy, but ending his leadership is far from terminating Israel’s hegemony over the Palestinians….
With Gratitude for the generosity of TheArabDailyNews for their nine years of hosting the saga of Israel’s nuclear whistleblower Mordechai Vanunu By Eileen Fleming Follow THIS LINK to read the Vanunu Saga at TheArabDailyNews.com. This post will be this writer’s final post at TheArabDailyNews. I leave because of lessons I learned during the Trump administration,…
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The Israeli-Palestinian Conflict: Is the Neither-Peace-nor-Security Assumption Dominating Again? By Abdennour Toumi The reputed Israeli-Palestinian peace process is an effort that has yielded anything but progress. There have been no successes for recent U.S. presidents who have tried to bring Israeli and Palestinian leaders together to find a way to break through to peace. In…
American politicians will not address Israel’s attack on the USS Liberty or the USA Governments failure to support those troops, until they grow a spine attached to a moral conscience that results in ethical behavior: such as would be demonstrated by investigating the January 6thattack on the US Capitol. By Eileen Fleming In response to…
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