Category: Middle East

Harsh anti-Normalization undermines Palestinian interests

January 8, 2018January 8, 2018 rayhanania No Comments

Harsh anti-Normalization undermines Palestinian interests Anger and emotion has driven many Palestinians to oppose any contacts with Israelis, calling it “normalization.” That’s a errant policy and a mistake, and it is misleading. Normalization is used by extremists to block any contacts between Palestinians and Israelis regardless of the intended outcome under the misleading belief that…

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Ahed Tamimi is HOPE in Action in Palestine #FreeAhedTamimi #FreePalestinianKids

January 6, 2018September 25, 2018 USS_Liberty Info No Comments

Ahed Tamimi became HOPE in action as a seven-year old when she raised a fist and her voice against fully armed Israeli soldiers. “HOPE has two children.The first is ANGER at the way things are. The second is COURAGE to DO SOMETHING about it.”-St. Augustine. In December Ahed Tamimi, now sixteen was arrested and indicted…

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

Keeping HOPE Alive When I am Sixty-Four

January 2, 2018September 25, 2018 USS_Liberty Info No Comments

“When I’m Sixty-Four” by the BEATLES was released in 1967 on the forever young “Sgt. Pepper’s Lonely Hearts Club Band” album. “HOPE has two children. The first is ANGER at the way things are. The second is COURAGE to DO SOMETHING about it.”-St. Augustine By Eileen Fleming It was 50 years ago last June…

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St. Stephen and Israel’s Nuclear Whistleblower Mordechai Vanunu

December 30, 2017September 25, 2018 USS_Liberty Info No Comments

On Thursday Mordechai Vanunu, Israeli nuclear whistle blower published a photo of himself alongside the statue of St. Stephen at St. Stephens Church in east Jerusalem and tweeted: “Life continue. waiting for my freedom to travel, now after 32 years with all the restrictions. nothing changes, nothing to report, nothing to post. see you in…

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Israel’s Donald John Trump Station and Wailing Walls

December 28, 2017September 25, 2018 USS_Liberty Info No Comments

To honor POTUS Trump for his decision to recognize Jerusalem as Israel’s capital and move the U.S. Embassy to Jerusalem from Tel Aviv; Israel’s Transportation Minister Yisrael Katz announced Israel’s Donald John Trump Station and the digging of a railway tunnel under Jerusalem’s Old City next to the Western Wall. Jerusalem’s Western Wall and Israel’s Separation Wall…

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How President Trump and Arab Leaders Are Making Turkey Great Again

December 25, 2017December 25, 2017 Abdennour Toumi No Comments

How President Trump and Arab Leaders Are Making Turkey Great Again By Abdennour Toumi The Arab street has been waiting for a political leader (a-Zae’em) since Gamel and Houari Boumédiène when it comes to making a stand against the Western hegemony led by the U.S. in the region. Lately the Middle East has been experiencing…

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Confronting Iran cornerstone to confronting extremism

December 23, 2017December 23, 2017 rayhanania No Comments

Confronting Iran cornerstone to confronting extremism Iran is the cornerstone of increasing extremism in the Middle East and the failure of the Arab World to unite to confront Israeli atrocities. Palestine won’t be free until extremism and extremists are destroyed. By Ray Hanania Arab News, Dec. 21, 2017 – In his National Security and Defense…

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Ahed Tamimi: Symbol of courage and leadership

December 21, 2017September 25, 2018 rayhanania No Comments

Ahed Tamimi: Symbol of courage and leadership Nothing has been more inspiring than to watch 16 year old Ahed Tamimi, a young girl standing in front of her home in Nabi Saleh, confronting heavily armed Israeli soldiers mocking them with slaps and telling them to eave her family alone. Tamimi has become the face of…

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Christmas Message To Mr. Trump From a Palestinian Christian and a USA Citizen of Conscience

December 21, 2017June 12, 2019 USS_Liberty Info No Comments

Samia Nasir Khoury author of “Reflections from Palestine: A Journey of Hope” emailed the following ‘thank you’ to Mr. Trump titled BLACKMAILING, which inspired a repetition of this American Citizen of Conscience Manifesto directed at Mr. Trump. On the Thursday before Christmas the following gift of knowledge and wisdom in an email from Palestine arrived regarding Mr. Trump titled:…

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Israel arrests 16 year old girl who slapped soldiers entering her home

December 19, 2017December 19, 2017 rayhanania No Comments

Israel arrests 16 year old girl who slapped soldiers entering her home Sixteen-Year-Old Palestinian Girl Arrested by Israeli Army in West Bank Village of Nabi Saleh December 19, Nabi Saleh, Occupied Palestinian Territories – The Israeli army arrested 16-year-old Palestinian human rights activist Ahed last night during a night raid at her home in the…

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Christian Fundamentalists and Evangelicals in the White House

December 19, 2017August 20, 2019 USS_Liberty Info No Comments

Once upon a time being an Evangelical was about sharing the gospel [good news] that Jesus actually taught, such as Peacemakers are the children of God. During the reign of President Reagan evangelical became a matter of which lever to pull in a voting booth and Christian fundamentalism spread into the mainstream. Fundamentalists uphold belief…

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Open Letter to U.S. Navy ATTN: Richard V. Spencer, Secretary of the Navy

December 12, 2017September 25, 2018 USS_Liberty Info No Comments

Author Phillip F. Nelson drafted an important Petition to Secretary of the Navy Richard V. Spencer, calling for the APPEAL OF U.S. NAVY DECISION To Name a Navy Ship after President Lyndon B. Johnson. Nelson lists many reasons WHY a USS LBJ would be a slap in the face to every crew member of the USS LIBERTY,…

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It’s a God Thing About USS Liberty, The Guardian, Palestine and Vanunu

December 8, 2017October 30, 2018 USS_Liberty Info No Comments

Off Guardian was created by internationals weary of their comments being censored by The Guardian’s Comment Is Free Forum/CiF. Having been censored and blocked by The Guardian after offering UNCENSORED “30 Minutes with Vanunu” Israel’s Nuclear Whistle Blower, I quit reading The Guardian years ago. This reporter posted the following comment on an Open Forum…

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The inseparability of peace, security, development and human rights

December 8, 2017December 8, 2017 rayhanania No Comments

The inseparability of peace, security, development and human rights GENEVA (8 December 2017) – On this day in 1948, the United Nations General Assembly adopted the Universal Declaration of Human Rights. Its timing so close after the end of World War II was no coincidence. Rather, it reflected the conviction that human dignity is at…

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President Trump is the catalyst the Arabs need to force them to act

December 6, 2017December 6, 2017 rayhanania No Comments

President Trump is the catalyst the Arabs need to force them to act In recognizing the Occupied City of Jerusalem as the Capital of Israel, President Trump is tossing the Middle East Game Board in the air. Middle East peace has been in a coma for 22 years since Israeli extremists assassinated Yitzhak Rabin and…

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Sudan targets newspapers, journalists with confiscations and draconian legislation

December 6, 2017December 6, 2017 rayhanania No Comments

Sudan targets newspapers, journalists with confiscations and draconian legislation New York, December 6, 2017—Sudanese authorities should stop confiscating newspapers and drop draft laws that would further curtail press freedom, the Committee to Protect Journalists said today. Over the past nine days, agents from Sudan’s National Intelligence and Security Services (NISS) have confiscated all copies of…

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Reaction to Trump’s recognition of Occupied Jerusalem as Israel’s capital

December 6, 2017April 13, 2019 rayhanania No Comments

Reaction to Trump’s recognition of Occupied Jerusalem as Israel’s capital Here’s a round-up of some of the reaction to President Trump’s decision to recognize Occupied Jerusalem as the Capital of Israel: (Click here to read President Trump’s statement) Yuseff Munayyer, US Campaign for Palestinian Rights: “Trump is telling Israel that its current separate-and-unequal – otherwise…

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Official Statement by President Trump on Jerusalem

December 6, 2017December 6, 2017 rayhanania No Comments

Official Statement by President Trump on Jerusalem Diplomatic Reception Room 1:07 P.M. EST THE PRESIDENT: Thank you. When I came into office, I promised to look at the world’s challenges with open eyes and very fresh thinking. We cannot solve our problems by making the same failed assumptions and repeating the same failed strategies of…

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