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Gaza residents await reconstruction in wake of Israeli war crimes US Pledges $212 million during conference this week in Cairo By Mohammed Asad with Ray Hanania Palestinian civilians in the Gaza Strip await word from the reconstruction conference being held in Cairo, Egypt of Arab World leaders on when they might see the rebuilding of…
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PLO Ashrawi urges Britain to recognize Palestine State A few days ahead of the British parliamentary vote on the recognition of the State of Palestine, PLO Executive Committee member, Dr. Hanan Ashrawi, met with correspondents from British media outlets in Palestine to reiterate the official call of the PLO for all states to recognize the…
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President Obama Support a FREE Vanunu END Israel’s Nuclear Deceptions By TNT/Telling Nuclear Truths To be delivered to President Barack Obama We thank you for your March 2014 declassification of 45 years of top-secret documents revealing cabinet secretaries and senior advisers to then President Richard Nixon acceding to Israel becoming a “threshold nuclear state.” We…
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Hanan Ashrawi & Archbishop Atallah Hanna headline HCEF 16th Annual Conference Full Program of Events has been finalized!!! You are all invited to register for the Conference & Awards Banquet! The Holy Land Christian Ecumenical Foundation is proud to share the complete program for the 16th international Conference! We are optimistic that 16th International Conference: “Together in Faith for the Common Good” will…
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AIPAC Controlled Congress vis-a vis HOUSE Reps. O’Rourke, Engel and Royce By Eileen Fleming On Thursday the Jewish Daily FORWARD admitted “It took only one wrong vote to teach a freshman Democrat from Texas how sensitive, and even wrathful, the Jewish community can be when it comes to Israel. “But the real story of what…
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Podcast Mayoral candidate Fioretti vows to re-establish Chicago Arab Advisory Commission Fioretti promises to recognize and work with Chicago’s rich racial and ethnic diversity that Mayor Emanuel has abandoned By Ray Hanania Chicago Mayoral candidate Robert “Bob” Fioretti said that one of his first acts as mayor will be to re-establish the role of the city’s “vibrant and…
Annual Taybeh OktoberFest forced to cancel, organizers say Taybeh Brewing Company, Taybeh, Ramallah, Palestine Taybeh Oktoberfest Press Release; Nadim Khoury / David Khoury October 3, 2014 The Taybeh Brewing Company regrets to announce that the harsh conditions of Palestine have led to the decision to cancel the 10th Annual Taybeh Oktoberfest 2014. The Taybeh Beer family expresses…
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Podcast: Who’s Who in Iraq, Syria conflicts Discussion with Ali Younes, Ray Hanania Sept. 9, 2014 (09-26-14) The Editors of The Arab Daily News discuss the various factions and political forces involved in the wars and violence taking place in Iraq and Syria. Who’s who in the conflict? Younes and Hanania discuss the regime of…
Israel controls Palestinians physically, but Palestinian fanatics control their minds By Ray Hanania When you say the name Amira Haas, the reporter for the award winning English language Israeli newspaper Haaretz, you immediately think of a courageous Israeli who is willing to stand up to the rising rightwing hatred in Israel, at great peril. But…
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King Abdullah of Jordan offers the US to send Jordanian ground forces to attack ISIS in Syria By Ali Younes The Times of London reported last week that King Abdullah II of Jordan had offered western leaders to send Jordanian Special Forces to Syria to fight ISIS. The report stated that the King had made…
Tampa activists protest ZIM cargo lines to showcase Israeli civil rights violations By Dezerey Lyn (Guest contributor) The following is a write up of the blockade action carried out by members of Block the Boat Tampa, Jewish Voice for Peace, Students for Justice in Palestine USF, Students for a Democratic Society, Tampa Food not Bombs,…
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Kuwait Donates $1 Million to ANERA to help Palestinian Children ANERA (American Near East Refugee Aid) is pleased to announce a donation of $1 million from the government of Kuwait to fund ANERA’s work with Palestinian communities. The generous contribution enables ANERA to support a range of significant projects serving Palestinian communities in the West Bank…
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Gaza Human Rights group: probe sinking of ship that killed 400 refugees Human Rights Group Investigates, Calls for International Action in Response to Sinking of Boat Carrying Asylum Seekers Photos by Mohammed Asad, Gaza Strip, Palestine Gaza City, Gaza Strip, Occupied Palestinian Territories – An international investigation must be launched into the smuggling operation that…
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Cooking Middle Eastern food is a passion and necessity for American Arabs By Ray Hanania I remember watching my mother standing in the kitchen in the afternoon preparing the evening’s meal. She was Palestinian from Bethlehem and all of her recipes were phenomenal Palestinian and Middle East food dishes. One of my favorite is grape…
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Israel whitewashes another series of civilian massacres By Ray Hanania Israeli soldiers committed more war crimes during the 51 day missile and tank assault on the civilian population of the Gaza Strip than was investigated in 20 years by the International Criminal Court (ICC). Yet as it has done in almost every instance in the past,…
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Block the Boat Versus Israeli Zim Shipping Company By Eileen Fleming Block the Boat actions against Israel-based Zim Integrated Shipping Services, began in Oakland, California and quickly spread to Tacoma, Seattle, Los Angeles, and Tampa. Last month in Oakland, four days of demonstrations by Block the Boat activists stopped the Zim Piraeus from fully unloading…
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How did I get here? By Harvey Stein I am an American-Israeli Jew. I live in Jerusalem (or sometimes I call it, “JerusaQuds”). When Ray Hanania asked me if I wanted to write for the Arab Daily News, I of course said, “of course.” I had met Ray when I made a short documentary on…
Gaza children begin school amid devastation caused by Israeli violence By Mohammed Asad More than 50,000 Palestinian school children showed up for the first day of classes at more than 125 schools in the Gaza Strip in Palestine, weeks after Israel abruptly ended its vicious military assault and violence against the civilian population. Children were forced to gather…
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