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Americans have mixed feelings on Chattanooga attacks

Posted on July 17, 2015July 19, 2015 By rayhanania No Comments on Americans have mixed feelings on Chattanooga attacks
Americans have mixed feelings on Chattanooga attacks

Americans and Arabs expressed frustration and mixed feelings in reaction to the brutal attack against two military installations in Tennessee on Thursday by a 24-year-old Arab and Muslim naturalized citizen. Four U.S. Marines were killed and another was injured in the attack. The killer, Mohammad Youssef  (Youssuf) Abdulazeez was shot and killed by military police. But…

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Kuwaiti Muslim from Jordan suspect in murder of 4 US Marines

Posted on July 16, 2015July 16, 2015 By rayhanania 8 Comments on Kuwaiti Muslim from Jordan suspect in murder of 4 US Marines
Kuwaiti Muslim from Jordan suspect in murder of 4 US Marines

The FBI has identified 24 year old Mohammad (Mohammod) Youssef Abdulazeez as the shooter who drove to two military installations in civilian areas and fired an automatic weapon from a rented vehicle, killing four U.S. Marines and injuring others on Thursday (July 16, 2015). By Ray Hanania A Kuwait Muslim from Jordan, Mohammod (Mohammad) Youssef  (Youssuf) Abdulazeez, 24, has…

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Deal with Iran strengthens fight against injustice

Posted on July 15, 2015July 15, 2015 By rayhanania No Comments on Deal with Iran strengthens fight against injustice

American led deal with Iran will bring security and justice to the Middle East region. And that’s why Israel’s government is so against it. Israel’s government doesn’t want security. It wants tension. Tension and the threat of conflict justifies their fear-mongering and strengthens their ability to bully Americans to support their needs, and turn a blind eye towards Israel…

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Arab World, Bloggers, Commentary, Israel, Palestine & Jordan, Ray Hanania

Concern for Americans in Yemen Grows

Posted on July 14, 2015July 14, 2015 By rayhanania No Comments on Concern for Americans in Yemen Grows
Concern for Americans in Yemen Grows

The Detroit-based American Human Rights Council (AHRC) urges immediate attention to American citizens in Yemen as crisis there grows The American Human a Rights Council (AHRC-USA) expresses its serious concerns regarding American citizens and permanent residents who have been stranded in Yemen with no means or ability to depart Yemen due to the escalating conflict…

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Paris company releases new Yom Kippur war game app

Posted on July 14, 2015September 24, 2018 By rayhanania No Comments on Paris company releases new Yom Kippur war game app
Paris company releases new Yom Kippur war game app

The 1973 Arab-Israeli war briefly changed the dynamics of Israel’s hegemony over the Arab World, and pushed Israel to address its intransigence and refusal to recognize Arab rights. But it didn’t take long for Israel to compromise Egypt’s President Anwar Sadat with false promises of negotiating a comprehensive peace that would include a Palestine State….

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Egypt slides from Democracy into oppression

Posted on July 14, 2015July 14, 2015 By rayhanania 6 Comments on Egypt slides from Democracy into oppression

Since the Arab Spring crashed into Cairo’s Tahrir Square in 2011, Egypt has been on a roller coaster. Once the cornerstone of secularism in a world of growing religious extremism, Egypt could use some excesses to protect itself from the Islamic extremists. But in recent years, Egypt has not been discretionary in how it deals…

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What U2’s Bono doesn’t know about Peres and Vanunu

Posted on July 13, 2015September 24, 2018 By USS_Liberty Info No Comments on What U2’s Bono doesn’t know about Peres and Vanunu
What U2’s Bono doesn’t know about Peres and Vanunu

Last Tuesday in Toronto, Nobel Peace Prize winner and Israel’s former president Shimon Peres was in the house for a U2 concert. On the anniversary of Operation Protective Edge, Bono said, “We understand, president Peres, that you have tried to be a voice of reason and have dedicated a great part of your life –…

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Omar Sharif and pro-Israel Hollywood

Posted on July 12, 2015July 12, 2015 By rayhanania 1 Comment on Omar Sharif and pro-Israel Hollywood
Omar Sharif and pro-Israel Hollywood

Omar Sharif was one of the first Arab actors to appear in the biased anti-Arab arena of Hollywood. His talent took him past the bigotry that has denied Arabs roles in major motion pictures, excluded pro-Arab themes and narratives from Hollywood movies, and marginalized Arabs to the sidelines of a biased movie industry. But his legacy…

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Washington Report hosts major conference on Israeli lobby

Posted on July 12, 2015June 12, 2019 By rayhanania No Comments on Washington Report hosts major conference on Israeli lobby
Washington Report hosts major conference on Israeli lobby

The Washington Report on Middle East Affairs parent organization, the American Educational Trust, and the Institute for Research: Middle East Policy organized a national conference last April in Washington D.C. The conference included several prominent speakers with vast firsthand insight on the power of the Israeli Lobby and AIPAC. It was so important that the Washington…

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Witch-hunts, USS LIBERTY and If Americans Only Knew!

Posted on July 10, 2015September 24, 2018 By USS_Liberty Info 2 Comments on Witch-hunts, USS LIBERTY and If Americans Only Knew!
Witch-hunts, USS LIBERTY and If Americans Only Knew!

The latest witch-hunt to discredit Alison Weir, [founder and executive director of If Americans Knew and president of the Council for the National Interest] is disgracing her attackers as it underscores the dire need to educate Americans: In particular our elected representatives regarding Israel’s attack on the USS LIBERTY; which this activist reporter contends is…

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American Arabs, Arab World, Bloggers, Commentary, Eileen Fleming, Palestine & Jordan

The Arab Daily News Radio & Podcast

Posted on July 10, 2015July 10, 2015 By rayhanania No Comments on The Arab Daily News Radio & Podcast

I’ve been doing radio for more than 40 years, first at the 50,000 WATT behemoth WLS AM in Chicago, and now at several stations around the country including now in Detroit on WNZK AM 690 and in Washington DC on AM 700 radio. American Arabs still continue to struggle to break into the mainstream news…

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Obituary: Omar Sharif, 1932-2015, the back story

Posted on July 10, 2015July 12, 2015 By rayhanania No Comments on Obituary: Omar Sharif, 1932-2015, the back story
Obituary: Omar Sharif, 1932-2015, the back story

Omar Sharif was one of the first Arab actors to appear in the biased anti-Arab arena of Hollywood. His talent took him past the bigotry that has denied Arabs roles in major motion pictures, excluded pro-Arab themes and narratives from Hollywood movies, and marginalized Arabs to the sidelines of a biased movie industry. But his legacy…

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American Arabs, Bloggers, Commentary, Editors Picks, Entertainment, Movies, Obits, Ray Hanania

The Quintessential Mustache: Facial Hair in Turkish Politics

Posted on July 9, 2015July 9, 2015 By Abdennour Toumi No Comments on The Quintessential Mustache: Facial Hair in Turkish Politics
The Quintessential Mustache: Facial Hair in Turkish Politics

How you trim your mustache can have meaning in terms of your politics in some areas of the Arab and Islamic World, but especially in Turkish politics. Your mustache could be as much about your political views as it is about fashion. Maybe the correct phrase is “political fashion.”  By Abdennour Toumi Ankara, Turkey — The mustache is not…

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Jon Stewart’s Legacy and Mordechai Vanunu’s Saga

Posted on July 8, 2015August 20, 2019 By USS_Liberty Info No Comments on Jon Stewart’s Legacy and Mordechai Vanunu’s Saga
Jon Stewart’s Legacy and Mordechai Vanunu’s Saga

In 2005, inspired by Jon Stewart, the Daily Show Correspondents, Brenda Starr, Dorothy Day and Mordechai Vanunu, my childhood dream of becoming a Reporter became reality. On Wednesday Israel’s Nuclear Whistleblower wrote: Vanunu Mordechai is ready to leave israel for ever and ever,after 18 years prison+11years in east jerusalem.FreedomNow. Time come to start new Life,in…

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Michael Oren’s hate campaign against Obama, peace

Posted on July 7, 2015September 24, 2018 By rayhanania No Comments on Michael Oren’s hate campaign against Obama, peace

Former Israel Ambassador to the United States, Michael Oren, is the point person in Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu’s hate campaign against President Barack Obama, and against the movement to bring peace. Oren’s attacks are a sophisticated strategy to broaden the assault against both Obama and peace, and cast critics of Israel’s extremist policies as “anti-Semites”…

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Arab World, Bloggers, Commentary, Editors Picks, Israel, Palestine & Jordan, Ray Hanania

Egyptian American stars in new Cable series on Hacking

Posted on July 6, 2015May 1, 2019 By rayhanania 1 Comment on Egyptian American stars in new Cable series on Hacking

Egyptian American Hollywood actor Rami Malek stars in a new hit series “Mr. Robot” on high tech computer warfare and hacking broadcast on the USA Network on Cable Television. Malek joins a small exclusive club of American Arabs who have made it to Hollywood movie and television series fame. By Ray Hanania Every time I…

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Hillary Clinton for President United States of Zionism

Posted on July 6, 2015September 24, 2018 By USS_Liberty Info No Comments on Hillary Clinton for President United States of Zionism
Hillary Clinton for President United States of Zionism

In her July 2nd declaration, U.S. Democratic presidential candidate Hillary Clinton wrote Israeli-American businessman and donor Haim Saban, expressing “alarm” over BDS and affirming her dedication to always “stand up for Israel” if she becomes president. By Eileen Fleming In 2006, Dr. Ilan Pappe informed this reporter: When Zionism began in the 19th century it…

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American Arabs, Arab World, Bloggers, Commentary, Eileen Fleming, Palestine & Jordan, Video

The Fifty Day Dying: A Look Back at the War on Gaza

Posted on July 5, 2015September 24, 2018 By rayhanania No Comments on The Fifty Day Dying: A Look Back at the War on Gaza

In July 2014, Israel intentionally provoked a war against Hamas, as it has done several times since 2008, designed to punish Palestinian civilians by targeting their children, their homes and their infrastructure to discredit Hamas. Thousands of civilians, including children, were murdered by heavily armed Israeli soldiers who defended the huge civilian deaths by asserting that…

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