Category: Commentary

Arabs should suspend contacts with Israel until Israel recognizes Palestine

March 7, 2018March 7, 2018 rayhanania No Comments

Arabs should suspend contacts with Israel until Israel recognizes Palestine The primary stumbling block to the establishment of a Palestine State and achieving Middle East peace is the weak leadership of the Arab World and their fear of standing up to Israel’s government extremism. Despite the Arab World’s public rhetoric and criticism of Israel’s government…

Arab News, Arab World, Arab World Politics, Bloggers, Commentary, Israel, Middle East, Opinion, Palestine & Jordan, Politics, Ray Hanania

I’ve Been Thinking about Maria Shriver, Book Tours, Vanunu and a USS Liberty LOVE Story #IveBeenThinking

March 4, 2018March 4, 2018 USS_Liberty Info No Comments

“I’ve Been Thinking” is Journalist Maria Shriver’s latest book. Maria Shriver’s The Sunday Paper email newsletter is one of my Sunday ‘must reads’ and today’s also provided the inspiration for this article. By Eileen Fleming Maria Shriver’s The Sunday Paper email is a free gift filled with “news and views above the noise” delivered by “powerful,…

Arab World, Bloggers, Commentary, Eileen Fleming, Israel, Middle East, Opinion, Palestine & Jordan

Major Gun Retailer Dick’s CEO with Common Sense Implores Politicians for Children’s Sake

February 28, 2018September 24, 2018 USS_Liberty Info No Comments

Edward Stack, the 63-year-old chief executive of Dick’s Sporting Goods makes it clear that the company’s new gun policy was a direct response to the Parkland Florida shooting. By Eileen Fleming The New York Times headline on Wednesday morning hit me like a bullet: “Dick’s, Major Gun Retailer, Will Stop Selling Assault-Style Rifles.” After reading Edward W….

Arab World, Bloggers, Commentary, Eileen Fleming, Opinion

Why Algeria Should Get a Leader Like President Erdoğan?

February 28, 2018February 28, 2018 Abdennour Toumi No Comments

Why Algeria Should Get a Leader Like President Erdoğan? President Erdoğan read attentively Ibn Khadun and Machiavelli, and synthesized their theory in the exercise of power’s ruse and cruelty. By Abdennour Toumi In the wake of Mr. Kamel Daoud’s Open Letter, a journalist and an author based in Paris to President Erdoğan, he wrote in…

Abdennour Toumi, Arab World, Bloggers, Commentary, Editors Picks, Kurds, Middle East, North Africa, Opinion, Turkey

قوة التمكين العربي تزداد رغما عن أمريكا

February 25, 2018February 25, 2018 rayhanania No Comments

قوة التمكين العربي تزداد رغما عن أمريكا بقلم: راي حنانيا Arabic. Arab American empowerment continues to grow. Arab Americans have been fighting for a place at the American table from the day they set foot in America. But in recent years, their empowerment has increased despite the increased discrimination in the wake of the terrorist attacks…

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A CMEP Reflection and this American’s Experience of Jesus at the Pool of Bethesda

February 25, 2018September 25, 2018 USS_Liberty Info No Comments

CMEP stands for Churches for Middle East Peace, a coalition of national church denominations and organizations, including Catholic, Orthodox and Protestant traditions. On the Second Sunday of Lent this American opened an email from CMEP because the subject was: “Pray for the Peace of Jerusalem” Because the content of the CMEP email reminded me of…

Arab World, Bloggers, Commentary, Eileen Fleming, Israel, Middle East, Opinion, Palestine & Jordan

Arab American empowerment continues to grow

February 23, 2018October 13, 2018 rayhanania No Comments

Arab American empowerment continues to grow Arab Americans have been fighting for a place at the American table from the day they set foot in America. But in recent years, their empowerment has increased despite the increased discrimination in the wake of the terrorist attacks of Sept. 11, 2001. In recently years, Arab Americans have…

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Remembering Billy Graham and Christian Arabs

February 21, 2018June 28, 2020 rayhanania No Comments

Remembering Billy Graham and Christian Arabs The Rev. William “Billy” Franklin Graham Jr. died this week at the age of 99. During his life, Graham once held the Palestinian Christians of Bethlehem in the highest esteem. And when my mother passed through one of his evangelical conventions one day, Graham held her hand high up…

American Arabs, Bloggers, Christian & Muslim, Commentary, Israel, Middle East, Opinion, Palestine & Jordan, religion

حرب إسرائيل على الفلسطينيين هي حرب على الحقائق

February 20, 2018February 20, 2018 rayhanania No Comments

حرب إسرائيل على الفلسطينيين هي حرب على الحقائق (Arabic) Israel’s war on Palestine is a war on facts. To the world, Ahmad Jarrar was a “terrorist” who murdered “innocent” Israeli Rabbi Raziel Shevach near his settlement outside of Nablus last month. What they don’t tell you is Shevach represents a movement of hatred that has…

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Israel’s war on Palestinians is a war on facts

February 19, 2018February 20, 2018 rayhanania No Comments

Israel’s war on Palestinians is a war on facts Israel’s government is not only violating the rights of Christians and Muslims inside Israel and in the occupied territories, the Apartheid government is also assaulting truth. Pro-Israel fanatics want you to sympathize with them when Israelis are killed but are silent when Israelis murder Palestinian civilians,…

Arab World, Bloggers, Commentary, Israel, Middle East, Opinion, Palestine & Jordan, racism

إحصاء السكان الأمريكي و حقوق العرب

February 19, 2018February 19, 2018 rayhanania No Comments

إحصاء السكان الأمريكي و حقوق العرب For the third time in 3 decades, the US Government has refused to include Arabs in the Decennial U.S. Census canvass which identifies the ethnic and racial makeup of America and is used to determine benefits for recognized ethnic and racial groups. Click here to read the English version….

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Time to rise above anger when confronting Israeli extremism

February 15, 2018September 29, 2018 rayhanania 4 Comments

Time to rise above anger when confronting Israeli extremism Palestinians are justified in their anger and frustrations, but allowing our emotions to direct our actions is not a good strategic move. Instead, we need to set aside our anger and emotion and instead pursue a pragmatic strategy based on one goal of establishing a Palestinian…

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الوطن و استراتيجية الغضب

February 14, 2018February 14, 2018 rayhanania No Comments

الوطن و استراتيجية الغضب It is not hard to understand the frustration and anger Palestinians and Arabs feel in the face of continued abuse by Israel’s government, whose policies are not only destroying any chance of peace, but also encouraging more violence and death. But the Palestinian and Arab world’s reaction to the Israeli government’s…

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Spielberg’s “The Post” and This American and Israel’s Nuclear Whistleblower VANUNU Mordechai

February 13, 2018September 25, 2018 USS_Liberty Info No Comments

Steven Spielberg’s “The Post” stars Meryl Streep portraying Katharine Graham, the first female publisher of The Washington Post. In response to my first of eight trips to both sides of Israel’s Wall in Palestine, this American female established WeAreWideAwake.org, produced “30 Minutes with Vanunu” which streams at YouTube and wrote the screenplay “This American and…

Arab World, Bloggers, Commentary, Eileen Fleming, Israel, Middle East, Opinion, Palestine & Jordan

LOVE, Valentines Day, Ash Wednesday, Fools and Stages of the Soul

February 12, 2018February 12, 2018 USS_Liberty Info No Comments

Love is patient and kind; NOT proud, rude, self-seeking, or easily angered. Love rejoices in truth and Love never fails. In 2018 Valentine’s Day and Ash Wednesday fall on the same day. Easter Day this year falls on April Fools’ Day, which is celebrated with practical jokes and spreading hoaxes. NO joke or hoax but Jesus was…

Arab World, Bloggers, Commentary, Eileen Fleming, Israel, Middle East, Opinion, Palestine & Jordan

What’s the Matter with France?

February 11, 2018February 11, 2018 Abdennour Toumi 2 Comments

What’s the Matter with France? What is wrong with the white xenophobes and France in general toward their fellow Muslims and Arabs? By Abdennour Toumi The question of the headscarf (al-Khemar in Arabic) in France is more than just a partisan selling point and an electoral agenda. The aim of the matter is to ban…

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” الحشمة ” هو منتج Macy الجديد لملابس المحجبات

February 11, 2018February 11, 2018 rayhanania No Comments

” الحشمة ” هو منتج Macy الجديد لملابس المحجبات الكاتب: راي حنانيا (Macy’s will feature the Verona Collection, fashionable clothing for Muslims in America. Click here for the English version of the column.) شركة ميسي Macy تعلن عن افتتاح خط جديد لملابس المحجبات اشهر شركة بيع في امريكا تقدم ملابس المحجبات من تصميم بيت الازياء الاسلامي…

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Pritzker, Brannigan and the “politics” of apologies

February 8, 2018August 7, 2022 rayhanania No Comments

Pritzker, Brannigan and the “politics” of apologies Some Arab American and Muslim activists have launched a vicious campaign against Palos Township Trustee Sharon Brannigan who expressed opinions critical of the “Middle Eastern” community that they claimed were racist. Brannigan apologized three times but they refused to accept her apology. However, J.B. Pritzker slammed Muslims as…

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