Category: Middle East

Saudi Arabia Issues Sweeping Changes to Enhance Role of Women in Society

August 5, 2019August 5, 2019 rayhanania No Comments

Saudi Arabia Issues Sweeping Changes to Enhance Role of Women in Society The Kingdom of Saudi Arabia has announced a series of sweeping legal changes to enhance the role of women in society, including an end to restrictions on travel and far-reaching labor provisions that guarantee women equal pay in the workplace and protection against…

Arab World, Middle East, News, Saudi Arabia, Women's rights

The USS Liberty and Moral Uprisings

August 2, 2019August 3, 2019 USS_Liberty Info No Comments

Presidential candidate Marianne Williamson warned that only a “moral uprising of the American people” will defeat Donald Trump. Marianne Williamson also inspired this call for a moral uprising to challenge anti-Semitism in support of the USS Liberty. By Eileen Fleming Speaking with Anderson Cooper on Tuesday during CNN’s post-Democratic debate analysis, candidate Marianne Williamson warned…

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

Christian Exodus from the Holy Land and Beatitudes Spun for 21st Century

August 1, 2019August 1, 2019 USS_Liberty Info No Comments

Before Israel became a state in 1948, the indigenous Christians in the Holy Land comprised 20% of the total population. Today approximately 150,000 individuals are known as “the living stones” of the Holy Land. If the Christian Exodus does not stop soon, Christianity could soon disappear in the land where Jesus taught that whatever one…

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

Majesty Mohammed VI and General Gaïd Salah Tear Down This Wall!

July 29, 2019July 29, 2019 Abdennour Toumi No Comments

Majesty Mohammed VI and General Gaïd Salah Tear Down This Wall! Soccer could federate and be an element to bring people together and enhance their passions, interests and their countries union. By Abdennour Toumi Soccer is a social activity within the community, about team spirit and sharing that is contrary to geo-politics or local politics,…

Abdennour Toumi, Bloggers, Commentary, Middle East, North Africa, Opinion

USS Liberty Veterans, Senator Marco Rubio, and this Constituent

July 22, 2019July 22, 2019 USS_Liberty Info No Comments

Inspired on Sunday by a request from a USS Liberty survivor of the Six Day War, this patriotic civilian dedicated Monday as a day of educational outreach to Senator Marco Rubio; Because he had invited this constituent to his mobile office meeting at my local Library because I had “previously contacted” his office regarding the…

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

SAMS hospital security guard among 33 civilians killed during attackls in Ma’arat al-Nu’man

July 22, 2019July 22, 2019 rayhanania No Comments

SAMS hospital security guard among 33 civilians killed during attackls in Ma’arat al-Nu’man The city of Ma’arat al-Nu’man in southern Idlib province came under intense air strikes Monday (July 22, 2019), killing at least 33 people and injuring more than 100, many of whom were children. SAMS hospital security guard, Mahmoud Qittaz, was among those…

Arab World Politics, Middle East, News, Syria

The Squad VS Ethnocracy by Trump and Tribe

July 17, 2019July 17, 2019 USS_Liberty Info No Comments

The Squad refers to House Representatives Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez, D-N.Y., Rashida Tlaib, D-Mich., Ayanna Pressley, D-Mass. and llhan Omar, D-Minn. An ethnocracy is the opposite of a democracy that arises when one particular group seizes control of the government in order to enforce a regime of privilege over a multi-ethnic or multi-religious society. By Eileen Fleming The Squad of…

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

Guest Op-Ed: Samaritan Values in understanding the facts in the Israel-Palestine conflict

July 16, 2019July 17, 2019 rayhanania 1 Comment

Guest Op-Ed: Samaritan Values in understanding the facts in the Israel-Palestine conflict By Froy Jimenez As a World History teacher, one of the major skills I encourage students to develop is a balanced, evidence-based position on complex topics. Politics in the Middle-East is complicated to say the least. To be more specific, the topic of…

American Arabs, Bloggers, Commentary, Israel, Middle East, Opinion, Palestine & Jordan, Politics

This Land is Your Land: God Blessed America for Me

July 16, 2019July 16, 2019 rayhanania No Comments

This Land is Your Land: God Blessed America for Me By Imad Hamad One of the most famous folk songs in this country is This Land is Your Land by folk singer Woody Guthrie. Woody Guthrie was going to name the song God blessed America for me. I thought of the song and Woody Guthrie…

American Arabs, Bloggers, Commentary, mainstream, Middle East, Opinion, Politics, US Arab Politics

CUFI: Ethical Faith Leaders Disrupt V.P. Mike Pence at D.C. CUFI Summit

July 14, 2019July 14, 2019 USS_Liberty Info No Comments

Today good news came by way of email from Sabeel Ecumenical Liberation Theology Center reporting on over 100 Christian, Jewish and Muslim faith leaders and community members who rose up against the role John Hagge’s tribe of Christians United For Israel/CUFI play in support of the illegal, immoral, and USA Government supported Israeli occupation of…

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

Israel’s Nuclear Weapons and the USS LIBERTY

July 13, 2019July 13, 2019 USS_Liberty Info No Comments

This week another fact emerged regarding Israel’s nuclear weapons and their attack on the USS Liberty, America’s premier surveillance ship during the Six-Day War By Eileen Fleming In October 2007, this American began to learn about the USA Government cover-up of Israel’s 8 June 1967 attack on the USS Liberty while navigating in international waters…

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

Missiles target civilians and hospitals in Syria

July 10, 2019July 10, 2019 rayhanania No Comments

Missiles target civilians and hospitals in Syria Ma’arat al-Nu’man Central Hospital Targeted by Four Airstrikes. SAMS Alarmed by Heightened Attacks on Healthcare. At 6.30 pm local time on Wednesday July 10, 2019, four aerial missiles were fired in the vicinity of SAMS-supported Ma’arat al-Nu’man Central Hospital, causing considerable material damage to the facility. One missile struck the…

Arab World, Middle East, News, Syria

Jesus was a Palestinian, and many Palestinians were Jews

July 10, 2019July 11, 2019 rayhanania No Comments

Jesus was a Palestinian, and many Palestinians were Jews Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu this week asserted that archeological digs run by the State of Israel have found proof that the Palestinians were never indigenous to the “Land of Israel” and immigrated from Europe. But since he opened the window to the topic, it’s worth…

Bloggers, Christian & Muslim, Commentary, Culture, Europe, Israel, Middle East, Opinion, Palestine & Jordan

Abu Ghraib at Home in America

July 4, 2019August 20, 2019 B. Nimri Aziz No Comments

Abu Ghraib at Home in America By B. Nimri Aziz “This is not what America is about” argues a reporter referring to revelations of misogynist, violent, racist behavior by employees of the U.S. Border Patrol ‘guarding’ migrants held in detention centers. Sorry Mr. Thompson (Propublica journalist who broke this story); THIS IS what America is…

Bloggers, Commentary, Iraq, Middle East, Opinion

Palestinians ‘let down by their leaders,’ Kushner says

July 3, 2019July 3, 2019 rayhanania No Comments

Palestinians ‘let down by their leaders,’ Kushner says Kushner led the two-day Peace to Prosperity conference in Manama and on Wednesday discussed the aftermath of the workshops with reporters mainly from the Arab World during a 30 minute long teleconference. Our door is always open to the Palestinian people and to the Palestinian leadership, says…

Arab News, Israel, Middle East, News, Palestine & Jordan

Some perspectives and notes from Kushner’s Peace to Prosperity Confab

July 2, 2019July 2, 2019 rayhanania No Comments

Some perspectives and notes from Kushner’s Peace to Prosperity Confab An Overview of the Bahrain Peace to Prosperity Conference, June 25-26, 2019. Here is a series of Op-Eds, segments of important comments, and links toi interesting information. What you will find below in this post: Op-Ed by Ray Hanania: Empowering Palestinians means delivering the promises…

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July 4 Message to President Trump from George Washington and We Americans and the USS Liberty

July 2, 2019July 2, 2019 USS_Liberty Info No Comments

President Trump seeks to seize a starring role in D.C.’s Fourth of July festivities with a speech from the Lincoln Memorial being pitched as a patriotic salute to the military. This reporter seizes this day to counter Trump’s injection of partisan politics into the celebration of America by citing President George Washingtons Farewell Address and…

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

Open Letter to Jared Kushner and all Americans who ‘drive drunk’

June 24, 2019June 24, 2019 USS_Liberty Info No Comments

Responding to Jared Kushner’s “Peace to Prosperity Economic Plan” is Sam Bahour’s “Open Letter To My Fellow American, Civil Servant Jared Kushner: From one American to another: Get out of the car. Go home” that follows this reminder from Jonathan Ben Artzi, a nephew to Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, who went to prison for 18 months for refusing to serve…