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Defending American lives, only when it’s politically convenient

Posted on April 21, 2016October 13, 2018 By rayhanania No Comments on Defending American lives, only when it’s politically convenient

Anti-Arab and anti-Muslim politicians Schumer and Cornyn have introduced a bill that supposedly will allow victims of terrorism to file lawsuits against foreign countries accused of sponsoring or being connected to those terrorist acts. But the intent really isn’t to protect Americans or give American justice. Instead, the purpose is to pander to the families who lost…

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Quora Censors Senior Correspondent Report on Vanunu

Posted on April 20, 2016April 21, 2016 By USS_Liberty Info No Comments on Quora Censors Senior Correspondent Report on Vanunu

UPDATE: On Thursday around 1 PM EST, Mordecai Vanunu Israel’s Nuclear Whistle Blower announced at TWITTER: April 21 2016 didn’t bring my Freedom. They postponed again their decision about this case, but I am ready to go any time soon. Freedom Must come At 1:30 PM on April 21, I received the following TWEET from Marc…

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Queen Noor: People not governments can bring peace

Posted on April 18, 2016September 24, 2018 By rayhanania No Comments on Queen Noor: People not governments can bring peace

Her Majesty Queen Noor speaks of global peace and humanitarianism at Judson University’s World Leaders Forum Her Majesty Queen Noor of Jordan captivated a crowd of 450 people who gathered for the World Leaders Forum today at Judson University. A world-renowned humanitarian activist, Queen Noor addressed topics such as Syrian refugees, water supply and women’s…

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Palestinians need a civil rights movement

Posted on April 13, 2016April 13, 2016 By rayhanania No Comments on Palestinians need a civil rights movement

The American civil rights struggle of the 20th Century is no different than the civil rights struggle of Palestinians living in Israel and under occupation. But what Palestinians need is a civil rights movement that is truly driven by peaceful protest and that can help restrain the urge to vengeance and revenge. Israel is using…

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Gut-wrenching Nuclear Deceptions and the G-7

Posted on April 12, 2016April 13, 2016 By USS_Liberty Info 1 Comment on Gut-wrenching Nuclear Deceptions and the G-7

Gut-wrenching is anything that causes mental or emotional anguish
 By Eileen Fleming  “Gut-wrenching” was how U.S. Secretary of State John Kerry defined his visit to the site of the world’s first targeted atomic bombings of innocent civilians.  Kerry became the highest-ranking U.S. diplomat to visit the Hiroshima Peace Park, located at ground zero for the first of…

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USS Liberty, Outfront Media and The First Amendment

Posted on April 10, 2016June 12, 2019 By USS_Liberty Info 2 Comments on USS Liberty, Outfront Media and The First Amendment

The USS Liberty is the most decorated ship in the US Navy for a single action The USS Liberty survivors have been engaged in a raging First Amendment battle ever since that day in infamy when Israel targeted and attacked America’s premier spy ship as it navigated in international waters on 8 June 1967. By…

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Israel continues siege of paralympic athletes in Gaza

Posted on April 9, 2016 By Mohammed Asad 1 Comment on Israel continues siege of paralympic athletes in Gaza

Palestinian athletes are prohibited from participating in foreign competition by Israeli Apartheid closures of the Gaza Strip. Meanwhile, Beitar Jerusalem, the racist Israeli sports team that discriminates against Christians and Muslims, uses Apartheid to ban Haaretz from covering its games By Mohammed Asad Al-Jazira Sports Club in the Gaza Strip held a Paralympic sports event for Gaza’s…

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Palestinians honor children targeted by Terrorist Israeli soldiers

Posted on April 6, 2016February 10, 2017 By Mohammed Asad No Comments on Palestinians honor children targeted by Terrorist Israeli soldiers

Palestinians honor children targeted by Terrorist Israeli soldiers Palestinian children are honored and celebrated on April 6 each year by Palestinians and the Arab World. Children have been targets of terrorism by Israel’s soldiers and settlers. Palestinian Children’s Day recognizes the suffering children in war zones like Occupied Palestine suffer in violation of human dignity, morality and international…

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Useful Stooges, News Tips and Mordechai Vanunu

Posted on April 4, 2016August 20, 2019 By USS_Liberty Info No Comments on Useful Stooges, News Tips and Mordechai Vanunu

On Monday the Useful Stooges asked: What’s the Arab Daily News? Because of a Google Alert for “Eileen Fleming” this reporter learned I had been tagged in the anonymously written post “The “peace troubadour”: a follow-up” at the Useful Stooges Word Press site which noted The Arab Daily News article Abrahamic Reunion at the Golan Heights…

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The Breaking of Tel Rumeida

Posted on April 2, 2016April 3, 2016 By rayhanania No Comments on The Breaking of Tel Rumeida

“You need to shave his skin off and throw him into the Dead Sea.” Israelis escalate hate violence in occupied Hebron where a seriously injured Palestinian suspected in an attack against an Israeli soldier was summarily executed as he was lying on the ground helpless by another Israeli soldier. Now, Israeli soldiers, and settler terrorists are screaming for…

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Arab World, Bloggers, Commentary, Israel, Palestine & Jordan, Terrorism

Murder in Chicago and Israel, two immoral standards

Posted on March 31, 2016September 24, 2018 By rayhanania 4 Comments on Murder in Chicago and Israel, two immoral standards

You don’t kill individuals suspected in a crime, especially when they have already been shot by police and are lying on the ground incapacitated. And you don’t threaten the person who takes the video of the incident which shows the authorities walking up to the disabled and injured suspect, and shooting him in the head. It…

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Videographer of soldier killing wounded Palestinian threatened with death

Posted on March 30, 2016March 31, 2016 By rayhanania 1 Comment on Videographer of soldier killing wounded Palestinian threatened with death

Israeli settlers, who have been behind most of the violence and terrorism between Israel and Palestine, this week are threatening retaliation against the Palestinian man who videotaped an Israeli soldier who casually and brutally walked up to an injured Palestinian suspected in an attack against another Israeli in Hebron and then shot him in an act of cold…

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Dems Must Debate Israel’s WMD and Vanunu’s Human Rights

Posted on March 29, 2016April 13, 2019 By USS_Liberty Info 1 Comment on Dems Must Debate Israel’s WMD and Vanunu’s Human Rights

Debate is a formal discussion on a particular topic in a public meeting or legislative assembly, in which opposing arguments are put forward. “You should be willing to debate anytime, anywhere.” Hillary Clinton said in 2008 By Eileen Fleming In 2006, Israel’s Nuclear Whistle Blower Mordechai Vanunu taped this video invitation to Senator Clinton and…

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Palestinians commemorate Land Day, Israel’s crimes

Posted on March 29, 2016March 29, 2016 By Mohammed Asad No Comments on Palestinians commemorate Land Day, Israel’s crimes

Palestinians commemorate Land Day, Israel’s crimes. From its creation in 1948, Israel has made the conflict in occupied Palestine about the theft of land and the ethnic cleansing of the population of Palestine’s Christians and Muslims. On March 30, 1976, inside Israel, six Palestinians were murdered by Israeli soldiers when they protested Israel’s plans to confiscate…

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The West’s fluid definition of terror

Posted on March 26, 2016 By rayhanania 1 Comment on The West’s fluid definition of terror

Innocent civilians are murdered and seriously injured everyday in Palestine and throughout the Middle East from terror, but the West always seems to have two standards for suffering, one for themselves and one for the people the West brutalizes. This essay explores the hypocrisy of the West in the aftermath of the terrorism in Brussels and…

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Arab World, Bloggers, Commentary, Editors Picks, Iraq, Israel, Palestine & Jordan, Syria, Terrorism

Clinton panders on Middle East, Sanders offers solutions

Posted on March 23, 2016April 13, 2019 By rayhanania No Comments on Clinton panders on Middle East, Sanders offers solutions
Clinton panders on Middle East, Sanders offers solutions

Former U.S. Senator Hillary Clinton is following a carefully written script in addressing the Middle East conflict, one that panders to the power of the pro-Israel lobby AIPAC and ignores issues of justice, the rule of law and civil rights. Her Democratic primary opponent, Bernie Sanders, however, has made principle and the rule of law foundations…

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Muslims urge government to review AIPAC status

Posted on March 22, 2016 By rayhanania 7 Comments on Muslims urge government to review AIPAC status

As promoter of Israeli policy in US, AIPAC should register as a Foreign Agent Leaders of the organization American Muslims for Palestine urged the U.S. Government to review the activities of AIPAC, the foreign Israel lobby, to determine if it should be treated as a foreign agent and be scrutinized more closely. As the annual…

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Sykes-Picot Agreement, Myth vs Reality

Posted on March 21, 2016March 21, 2016 By Abdennour Toumi No Comments on Sykes-Picot Agreement, Myth vs Reality

The Sykes-Picot Agreement symbolizes the secrecy by which France and Britain decided to carve up the Middle East based on their economic and power issues and not on the interests of the people of the Middle East. And while the agreement was never realized, it set the stage for the turmoil that has plagued the…

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