Category: Palestine & Jordan

Two months in Palestine: A Snapshot of oppression

June 8, 2015June 8, 2015 rayhanania No Comments

Activists spends two months in Palestine struggling against Israeli Apartheid policies to champion the rights of Palestinians, and sees Israeli oppression firsthand By Dezeray Lyn The wholesale occupation and pillaging of the West Bank and what is left of the Palestinian territories has been raging on now for 67 years. There are internationals filing into…

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Jewish Arab American’s horse American Pharoah wins Triple Crown

June 7, 2015June 7, 2015 rayhanania No Comments

A Jewish American Arab’s horse, American Pharoah, won the Triple Crown on Saturday. Ahmed Zayat is a Jewish Egyptian immigrant to the United States and owner of Zayat Stables LLC. Zayat is the former owner of Al Ahram Beverages in Egypt which was purchased by Heineken in 2002. American Pharaoh is ranked by the Los Angeles…

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Free Vanunu to Norway: International Intervention Required

June 6, 2015October 13, 2018 USS_Liberty Info 2 Comments

By Eileen Fleming On Wednesday Mordechai Vanunu wrote regarding this Norwegian media report translated by Google: Norway opening the door very slightly for asylum or emergency passport for the Israeli nuclear whistleblower Mordechai Vanunu. Minister Vidar Helgesen said ‘We would consider it.’ Helgesen said Norway had asked Israel to take humanitarian considerations in this matter,…

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Syrian refugee invents system to irrigate drought

June 4, 2015April 13, 2019 rayhanania No Comments

A former Syrian journalist forced to flee in the face of oppression and increased violence is rebuilding his life and helping farmers in the Arab World to irrigate drought-ridden farmlands and crops. Ayman Abdel Nour has submitted a patent for his new invention a sub-surface irrigation system to counter the region’s growing shortage of water. By Ray…

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Establishing USS LIBERTY Remembrance Day Despite Congress

June 4, 2015October 13, 2018 USS_Liberty Info 1 Comment

By Eileen Fleming On Monday at Arlington National Cemetery Congressional Representatives will again be MIA at the annual honoring of the USS LIBERTY; However growing numbers of supporters will be there in body or spirit for the 48th year the survivors remember that day in infamy when Israel attacked their lightly armed spy ship…

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Bassiouni under attack from extremists who hate Israel, peace & moderates

May 29, 2015September 29, 2018 rayhanania No Comments

No one has done more than Professor M. Cherif Bassiouni to help educate Americans on the just cause of the Palestinian people, and in recent years on confronting the distorted stereotypes against Islam. One of the world’s preeminent lawyers, Bassiouni has fought for the rights of the weak regardless of their race or religion. Now he’s…

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Holy Land Principles focuses on CISCO

May 28, 2015September 24, 2018 rayhanania No Comments

CISCO NOW FOCUS OF HOLY LAND PRINCIPLES: GE, CORNING & INTEL RESOLUTIONized Three major American companies doing business in Palestine/Israel – Israel/Palestine have now been served with Shareholder Resolutions on the Holy Land Principles— an 8-point corporate code of conduct. GE, Corning and Intel have all been “ RESOLUTIONized.” Fr. Sean Mc Manus— President of the…

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Delinda Hanley to receive “Rachel Corrie Award” from ADC

May 27, 2015June 12, 2019 rayhanania No Comments

Delinda Hanley, the capable news editor of the must-read Washington Report on Middle East Affairs, will be recognized at ADC’s national convention next month in Washington DC for her tireless work to educate Americans and the public and the Middle East and issues such as the Israeli killing of Rachel Corrie. The American-Arab Anti-Discrimination Committee…

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Amnesty International slams Hamas for violence, killings

May 27, 2015 rayhanania No Comments

Amnesty International, which has been blasted by Israel as “biased” “anti-Semitic” and “wrong,” released a report Israelis are now touting relentlessly which slams Hamas for a wave of Arab-on-Arab violence, targeting Palestinians who allegedly spied for Israel. The violence, however, is appalling. But while Palestinians acknowledge their vices, Israelis continue to close a blind eye to…

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US cracks down on FIFA to avenge criticism of Israel

May 27, 2015August 20, 2019 rayhanania 2 Comments

Days after officials at the Federation of International Football Associations announced plans to allow a vote on whether or not to allow Israel to remain in the association, the United States launched a widespread prosecution against’s FIFA’s international leadership in Zurich Switzerland. That will teach FIFA for cracking down on Israeli racism By Ray Hanania The U.S….

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Netanyahu thanks U.S. for blocking a Nuclear Weapons Free Middle East

May 24, 2015 USS_Liberty Info 2 Comments

By Eileen Fleming On Saturday Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu called U.S. Secretary of State John Kerry to thank the U.S. for blocking a decision that would task the UN secretary general with convening an international conference on making the Middle East a nuclear weapons-free zone by March 2016. U.S. Under Secretary of State Rose Gottemoeller…

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Mordechai Vanunu Weds Norwegian Professor in Jerusalem

May 20, 2015September 29, 2018 USS_Liberty Info No Comments

By Eileen Fleming On Wednesday at Facebook’s Free Mordechai Vanunu Israel’s Nuclear Whistle Blower wrote: “Vanunu Married Kristine,in The Redeemer church,Jerusalem ,May 19.2015.“ The headline in Norway read Vanunu giftet seg med norske Kristin and the following is excerpted from Google Translate: It was yesterday morning that the two said yes to…

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Illinois Governor Rauner can do the right thing

May 20, 2015May 20, 2015 rayhanania No Comments

Illinois Governor Bruce Rauner can do the right thing and support Middle East peace by rejecting a bill sponsored by pro-Israel activist Il Rep. Sara Feigenholtz and urge the Illinois General Assembly to support peace based on Two-States, non-violence and the respect of human rights. Rauner can also take a strong stand to defend the…

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Strangled: Gaza Collapsing in the Grip of a Humanitarian Crisis

May 20, 2015 Mohammed Asad 1 Comment

The results of a comprehensive report prepared by the Euromid Observer for Human Rights about the repercussions of the Israeli siege imposed on the Gaza Strip, which enters its ninth year next June By Mohammed Asad It has been nine months since Israel agreed to a ceasefire that ended its third and most massive military…

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President USS LIBERTY Veterans Association Addresses Congress

May 20, 2015September 24, 2018 USS_Liberty Info 4 Comments

By Eileen Fleming Forty-eight years after Israel’s attack, survivor and President of the USS LIBERTY Veterans Association, Ernie Gallo is no longer waiting for an act of congress; but is leading others to get Congress to act. On Monday Gallo’s following Letter was hand-delivered to the Orlando offices of Senators Bill Nelson and Marco Rubio….

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Jordanian Military court accuses Journalist of undermining country

May 16, 2015May 20, 2017 Ali Younes No Comments

Jordanian Military court accuses Journalist of undermining country By Ali Younes He was designated by the military prosecutor as a “special case” and “very dangerous criminal” thus he was led in and out court with his hands tied behind his back, his legs,neck and waist shackled in iron making him looking like the movie character…

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The Real Nakbah

May 14, 2015May 19, 2015 Jafar Ramini No Comments

By Jafar M Ramini These are very difficult times for us. We Palestinians are going through an emotional upheaval that stirs our hearts and squeezes our tear ducts. For it was on May 15th 1948 that the Jewish terrorist armies attacked many villages and towns in Palestine destroying over 600 of them and driving around…

Intel, Israel’s largest employer, pressed for Fair Employment

May 14, 2015 rayhanania No Comments

Intel, the multinational technology company headquartered in Santa Clara, is being pressed to sign the Holy Land Principles— a corporate code of conduct for American companies doing business in Israel-Palestine. The 8-point set of Principles is based on the Mac Bride Principles that have proven so effective in Northern Ireland. Fr. Sean Mc Manus, originally…

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