Category: Palestine & Jordan

Jon Stewart’s next movie: Vanunu Israel’s Snowden and Photographer WMD Facility?

November 24, 2014September 24, 2018 USS_Liberty Info 3 Comments

By Eileen Fleming Evil is relatively rare. Ignorance is epidemic and the cure for that is journalism and expression Jon Stewart has reiterated regarding why he produced “Rosewater” which is based on the memoir Then They Came for Me by Maziar Bahari, which recounts Bahari’s 2009 imprisonment by Iran, after an interview with Jason…

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Radio Interview with Arab American publisher Mansour Tadros

November 21, 2014March 28, 2023 rayhanania No Comments

Radio Interview with Arab American publisher Mansour Tadros Mansour Tadros, publisher of The Future News (Al Mustaqbal) in Chicago discusses the ethnic news media and the American Arab community, and challenges small publishers face in addressing and covering the American Arab community in Chicago and the United States. Tadros, Jordanian American, has been publishing his…

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Palestinians can’t condemn Israeli atrocities if they don’t condemn their own

November 21, 2014September 24, 2018 rayhanania 2 Comments

Without condemning Palestinian atrocities against Israelis, the Palestinians lose the moral high ground and weaken their ability to condemn the many atrocities committed by Israelis. Arab fanatics, however, argue that Palestinian atrocities are not atrocities at all, and the only atrocities are committed by Israelis. That false logic undermines the powerful cause of the Palestinian people….

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Israel Palestine Religion VS Spirit and Imagination

November 20, 2014September 24, 2018 USS_Liberty Info No Comments

By Eileen Fleming Sixty-six years of political conflict in Israel Palestine, the so-called Holy Land has focused on borders, settlements, checkpoints, terrorism and human rights has now morphed into Debates over access to sites in Jerusalem’s Old City, where Muslims believe the Prophet Muhammad ascended to heaven and where Jews believe their holy ancient temples…

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Daily Kos Censorship and Apartheid Israeli Style

November 18, 2014September 24, 2018 USS_Liberty Info 2 Comments

By Eileen Fleming The Daily Kos promotes itself as a weblog with political analysis on US current events from a liberal perspective. Seven years after my first banning at the Daily Kos which I documented here: It Sure Smells Like a Right Wing Zionist Cabal at The Daily Kos , I returned on Sunday with: Charlie…

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Weather brings more challenges to victims of Israeli war crimes

November 18, 2014August 20, 2019 Mohammed Asad No Comments

Winter weather brings harsh conditions for the Palestinian victims of Israeli war crimes and the delayed process of providing relief and reconstruction for civilian residents of the Gaza Strip including in Shujaiyya, one of the targets of Israeli military terrorism this past summer By Mohammed Asad The Palestinians in the Gaza Strip continue to face hardships…

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Netanyahu Seeks Nation-State of the Jewish People – EU Proposes Sanctions

November 16, 2014September 24, 2018 USS_Liberty Info No Comments

By Eileen Fleming On Sunday in Jerusalem at the start of the weekly cabinet meeting, Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu said he would push forward the “Basic Law: Israel as the Nation-State of the Jewish People” the most extreme of a series of similar legislative proposals that have been raised this year. Netanyahu said, “The justice…

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Cement and supplies trickle in to rebuild Gaza

November 15, 2014August 20, 2019 Mohammed Asad No Comments

Badly needed supplies are being held and delayed by Israel at the borders of the Gaza Strip despite the pledges of international donor nations to help the besieged civilians brutalized by Israeli occupation By Mohammed Asad The distribution of the only cement to enter the Gaza Strip last month, estimated at 440 tons, has began for owners…

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Obama Has Chance to Make Positive Change in Middle East

November 13, 2014November 13, 2014 rayhanania No Comments

Although Democrats have lost control of the Senate, it’s predictable and gives Barack Obama a free hand to impose his own policies to help push peace in the Middle East using his powers as President By Ray Hanania Although President Barack Obama has faced tough pushback on his efforts to achieve a Middle East peace…

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PTSD Nation and Gaza’s Children of Resilience

November 12, 2014January 9, 2019 USS_Liberty Info 1 Comment

By Eileen Fleming Where children play in Gaza 20,000 homes are destroyed and uninhabitable and over 100,000 Palestinians are homeless, or crowded in with relatives. Building materials promised by the UN and international donors are stalled or unavailable and once again Governments around the world agreed to shoulder the burden of Zionist impunity by pledging…

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Why Investigate Navy Seals but NOT USS Liberty Survivors?

November 9, 2014September 24, 2018 Joe Meadors 40 Comments

By Joe Meadors Navy Seals are coming out of the woodwork claiming to be the one who fired the shot that killed Osama bin Laden. Those who wrote books about the assault on bin Laden’s compound are being investigated by the US government for everything from revealing classified information all the way to treason. If…

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New Poll: Majority of Palestinians support Two-State Solution

November 5, 2014September 24, 2018 rayhanania No Comments

A new survey of Palestinians reflects support of two-states, backing for Abbas over Haniyeh in presidential race, and reflect continued admiration for the late President Yasir Arafat By Ray Hanania A majority of Palestinians said that despite the increased brutality from Israel and the Israeli war on the Gaza Strip that took more than 2,000…

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Fighting Father Dave Smith Talks Vanunu Gaza Syria

November 5, 2014September 24, 2018 USS_Liberty Info No Comments

By Eileen Fleming Exclusive to The Arab Daily News Fifteen years ago Reverend Dave Smith established The Order of Fighting Fathers a global group of priests and regular people, committed to Fighting the Good Fight against injustice, prejudice, drugs and poverty, by challenging and encouraging each other to spread the truth in love in the…

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APN to Netanyahu, Obama: Stop East Jerusalem Settlement Construction

November 3, 2014September 24, 2018 rayhanania No Comments

Americans for Peace Now supports Israel’s Peace Now in condemning Netanyahu government’s expansion of settlements, issues statement Washington, DC – Americans for Peace Now (APN) joins its Israeli sister organization, Israel’s Peace Now movement, in strongly condemning the Israeli authorities’ decision to proceed with an East Jerusalem construction project that has triggered deep disapproval among…

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Loyola University effort to censor Arab students falters

November 3, 2014September 24, 2018 rayhanania No Comments

Loyola SJP found Responsible for 1 of 6 Charges, Sanctioned with Probation & Dialogue Training; Hillel Only Sanctioned with Administrative Training for Violating Similar Rules. On Friday evening, October 31, Loyola University- Chicago (LUC) released its decision regarding a number of disciplinary charges against Students for Justice in Palestine (SJP)-LUC, finding the group Not Responsible…

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Abu Qatada: I am not a Salafist or a Jihadist

November 3, 2014September 24, 2018 Ali Younes 5 Comments

In exclusive interview, Abu Qatada decries “Jihad is not and should not be about murdering innocent civilians;” believes US-led coalition to fight ISIS unnecessary because “ISIS will destroy itself” By Ali Younes He was called Al Qaida’s ambassador in Europe, a radical preacher, a Salafist, a violent Jihadist, a terrorist mastermind and Europe’s Bin Laden. But…

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Free Mordechai Vanunu Internationals Petition Obama End Israel’s Nuclear Deceptions

November 2, 2014September 24, 2018 USS_Liberty Info No Comments

Free Mordechai Vanunu Internationals Petition Obama End Israel’s Nuclear Deceptions By Eileen Fleming For twenty-eight years Israel’s Nuclear Whistle Blower, Mordechai Vanunu has been saying, “I have sacrificed my freedom and risked my life in order to expose the danger of nuclear weapons which threatens this whole region. I acted on behalf of…

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Loyola University discriminates against non-Jews who tried to sign up for Birthright Israel program

October 29, 2014August 20, 2019 rayhanania 3 Comments

Loyola University punishes non-Jews who tried to sign up for “Birthright Israel” program Loyola University Chicago students affiliated with the student group Students for Justice in Palestine (SJP) will attend an administrative hearing scheduled Thursday, October 30 to respond to allegations made against the group after Palestinian students lined up on September 9, 2014 to try to register…

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