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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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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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Ray of Hope from Tunis, despite criticism By Abdennour Toumi Tunisian parliamentary election put an end to the Islamists rhetorical course and reset the secularists theoretical discourse. There is worthy of comment due to the repeated and disappointing coverage by Western and Arab media alike. Such “twisting” of the news continues as Western media persists…
American Arabs must fully engage in elections by voting Samir Khalil, the director of the Arab American Democratic Club of Illinois discusses the roll American Arabs play in local politics and in elections. Khalil discusses the recent luncheon which hosted dozens of elected officials including Gov. Pat Quinn, Samantha Haddad Webb the candidate for 10th…
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Arabs of Chicagoland to celebrate Arab Heritage Month in November By Ray Hanania Although Chicago Mayor Rahm Emanuel gutted the involvement of American Arabs in Chicago government, the world is bigger than his pettiness and anti-Arab racism. Emanuel eliminated the Advisory Commission on Arab Affairs after his election in 2011. He used the consolidation of…
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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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New Book: “The Vanunu Legend: Israel’s Nuclear Whistleblower’s Struggle for Freedom” New Book by Eileen Fleming, correspondent for The Arab Daily News is a FREE Ebook New York born Eileen Fleming began documenting the saga of Mordechai Vanunu in 2005, after meeting Israel’s Nuclear Whistle-blower during her first of eight investigative journeys to both sides…
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Podcast: Sir Rateb Rabie on Middle East Christians By Ray Hanania Holy Land Ecumenical Foundation President Sir Rateb Rabie discusses the challenges facing Christians in the Middle East. He talks about the anti-Christian views of Republican Texas Senator Ted Cruz at a recent conference at the so-called “In Defense of Christians” conference held in Washington…
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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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Sam Rasoul discusses Arab political empowerment; Rateb Rabie discusses fate of Middle East Christians 4 pm CST: Ray Hanania, host of Talk of the Town Radio show on www.YalahaVoice.com and WCEV 1450 AM Radio, interviews Virginia 11th District Delegate (State legislator) Sam Rasoul on his political career and his successful election in November 2013 and his election…
International Human Rights groups argue proposed Arab Court for Human Rights needs more work On 31 August, 17 regional and international human rights organizations sent a joint statement to Arab foreign ministers, urging them to delay their adoption of a statute on an Arab Court for Human Rights. The foreign ministers are scheduled –according to the Secretary…
Mandy Patinkin for Israeli Prime Minister Stephen Colbert for SECURITY By Eileen Fleming On Tuesday Mandy Patinkin announced on The Colbert Report that he wants to run for Prime Minister of Israel after the fourth season of Homeland. In the series Mandy Patinkin plays CIA Middle-East Division Chief Saul Berenson and he prefaced his announcement…
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US Israel Nuclear Ambiguity Declassified and What Vanunu Said By Eileen Fleming After 45 years of top-secret status documenting America’s colluding role in Israel’s nuclear ambiguity; the worldwide ‘secret’ ended last week with declassified papers made public by the Interagency Security Classification Appeals Panel (ISCAP). In March, Obama decided to release the documents revealing American…
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Iran Torture Jon Stewart ROSEWATER Israel Torture Vanunu Youtube By Eileen Fleming Jon Stewart’s directorial debut “Rosewater” premiers at this weekend’s Telluride Film Festival ahead of its international premiere at the Toronto International Film Festival in September-a trailer can be viewed at YouTube HERE “Rosewater” is based on the best-selling memoir by Maziar Bahari, Then…
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Hamas Israel Ceasefire, International Court and Palestinian Resistance Unity By Eileen Fleming On Tuesday evening, Israel’s 50-day’s of assault on the Gaza Strip ended with an indefinite ceasefire mediated by Egyptian officials in Cairo based on the understandings that ended the Israeli war against the Gaza Strip in 2012. Three months ago, Israeli Prime Minister…
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Sex, Stem Cells, ALS #IceBucketChallenge By Eileen Fleming As of Saturday morning, The ALS Association had received $62.5 million in donations compared to $2.4 million during the same time period last year (July 29 to August 23). On Saturday morning three friends unexpectedly stopped in and one of them is being worked up for ALS…
By Mohammed Asad with Eileen Fleming On Thursday three more Palestinian children were killed in the Gaza Strip according to Health Ministry spokesman Ashraf al-Qodra, “The three children, aged 7, 8 and 11, were killed in an Israeli strike in eastern Gaza City.” Israel also killed 17 Palestinians including three commanders of the Ezzeddin al-Qassam, the…