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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…
Israel’s Security, Palestine’s Liberation and All that Jazz By Eileen Fleming Israels security, Palestine’s Liberation: Monday at midnight in Cairo the current cease-fire talks are due to end. On Sunday Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu said that Israel would only accept a proposal for a long-term cease-fire if Israel’s security needs were met. A senior Israeli official said….
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HOLOCAUST SURVIVOR’S DESCENDANTS massacred by Israel in Gaza: In a not so uncommon twist, a Holocaust survivor returned his Holocaust Award to the “State of Israel” this week after announcing that the family of one of his descendants, a nephew, were among the 2,000 civilians massacred by Israel’s war crimes assault against the Gaza Strip. Hank…
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Palestinian Jewish Martyr Jesus was never a Christian By Eileen Fleming Exclusive to The Arab Daily News Until my first trip to both sides of The Wall in the so called Holy Land I was a ‘church lady’ who taught Sunday School to middle and high school students at an Episcopal Church. After my…
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By Mike Ghouse We urge our governmental and humanitarian agencies to investigate and establish responsibilities for the death of 1900 civilians in the latest conflict. Through this we hope and pray for de-escalating the growing anti-Semitism and anti-Arab sentiments caused by the brutal but senseless killings in the conflict. Our ultimate goal is security for…
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Media Twists Facts to Make Israel Look Good in Conflict With Palestinians By Ray Hanania If your only source of news on the conflict between Israel and Palestine is the biased, anti-Arab mainstream American news media, I can understand why you so easily believe that Israel is merely defending itself against rocket attacks from the…
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Ziyad Liquid Jameed and Middle East holidays By Ray Hanania Jameed is a critical ingredient to many high quality Middle Eastern and Mediterranean food recipes and it has a fascinating history that is often misunderstood. Literally translated from Arabic to English to mean “hardened,” Jameed is made from the Ewe, the female goat or sheep…
FX TV’s Tyrant Offensive on Many Levels By Ray Hanania Copyright 2014 Ray Hanania and Creators Syndicate Click here to read column in Arabic As an Arab born in America, I’ve come to accept that Americans are a fundamentally racist society that enjoys looking down on others as an artificial means of making it look…
What’s so racist about FX TV’s Tyrant? By Ray Hanania (Here are just my immediate thoughts in a sarcastic Tirade about Tyrant!) What’s racist about FX TV’s series Tyrant? The entire show. Because you know, all us Ay-rabs are brutal dictator murderers and we go around brutally raping women because we were brutalized as sissy…
Obituary: controversial Lebanese scholar Fouad Ajami dead By Ray Hanania Fouad Ajami, who was reviled by many Arabs but loved by the pro-Israel movement for his softened criticism of Israel and harsh assessments of the Arab World died on Sunday of prostate cancer at his home in Main, according to media reports Tuesday. He was 68…
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Obituary: Ayoub Yousef Talhami, 1928-2014 Ayoub Talhami, former Assistant Chief Engineer at the Metropolitan Water Reclamation District, and a prominent member of the American Palestinian community in Chicago, was born in Shefa ‘Amr, Palestine. He was a volunteer fighter with Palestinian militias during the 1948 Arab-Israeli war. He graduated from the elite Arab College in…
Chicago’s Future News newspaper continues to set American Arab trends By Ray Hanania Mansour Tadros left Naour, Jordan near Amman and followed his father to the United States hoping to build a new life of freedom and opportunity. But in the end, Tadros, 65, has spent most of his time defending the American Arab and…
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Tyrant: hate TV series coming this summer reveals more about Hollywood than Arabs and Muslims By Ali Younes The Arab Daily News has uncovered a brewing conflict and war of words involving the executives at FX channel that produces the upcoming TV series Tyrant and its creator Gideon Raff. Ray Hanania, the Managing Editor of…
Tyrant: Anti-Arab American hate TV offers new program this summer By Ray Hanania One of the most vicious and anti-Arab and anti-Muslim programs on television was Homeland. It replaced the equally anti-Arab hateful program 24, which returned to television last week. Both had one thing in common: The fictional heroes in Homeland (on the notorious anti-Arab cable…
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Arab Americans left out of Chicago event, again By Ray Hanania When the United States government called on me during my sophomore year in college to fight in Vietnam, I didn’t wait until they drafted me. There was a chance they wouldn’t, but my Draft number was around 65. So I went and enlisted for…
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A 9/11 book the world needs to read, Jeremy Scahill’s “Dirty Wars” By Ray Hanania Published in the Saudi Gazette, Sunday May 11, 2014/Distributed by Creators Syndicate Click here to View Imam Anwar al-Awlaki in Yemen October 2008, taken by Muhammad ud-Deen. (Photo credit: Wikipedia) In 39 years of professional journalism, I have never come…
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Jews and Arabs together: I am lucky to experience something I wish more could By Ray Hanania I’m lucky. Or maybe some might call it blessed. Others may just say fortunate. A few say plagued. I have and will again experience something that many Jews and Palestinians may never really experience. Something where we all come…
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Travel: The obligatory visit to the Arabs of Dearborn By Ray Hanania I have been traveling to Dearborn, Michigan since I was a young child back in the 1950s. Back then, it was about the only place where you could purchase original ingredients to make Middle Eastern food recipes. So we would often make the…
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