Tag: Benjamin Netanyahu

Arab election unity puts spotlight on Israeli racism & discrimination

February 9, 2015October 9, 2018 rayhanania No Comments

By Ray Hanania The decision by Israel’s Arab political parties to create a “joint list” in the upcoming March 17 Israeli Knesset elections has put the spotlight on Israel’s historic contradictions claiming on one hand to be a “Democracy” but in reality embracing racist and discriminatory practices. In the past, the majority of Arab Israeli…

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Rabbis for Human Rights protests Israel’s collective punishment

February 8, 2015November 30, 2020 rayhanania No Comments

Rabbis for Human Rights protests Israel’s collective punishment By Ray Hanania Rabbis for Human Rights, the only rabbinical based human rights organization in Israel, issued a statement this week calling on Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu to end the practice of punishing families and relatives of individuals accused of violent crimes by destroying their homes….

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Amnesty International Calls for Action to Free Vanunu

February 4, 2015August 20, 2019 USS_Liberty Info 1 Comment

By Eileen Fleming On Tuesday Amnesty International emailed this update and action request in support of a free Mordechai Vanunu: Once again, the Israel High Court of Justice (HCJ) has rejected Vanunu’s petition against restrictions on his freedom of movement, association and expression, in their decision dated 25 January 2015. In summary, the judges basically…

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Boehner’s Boner Bibi’s Toast Vanunu’s Freedom Soon or Later

January 31, 2015September 24, 2018 USS_Liberty Info No Comments

By Eileen Fleming John Boehner’s latest boner –meaning a clumsy or stupid mistake- was inviting Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu to address a joint Session of Congress two weeks before the Israeli elections in March. Boehner’s invite inserted Bibi into the middle of the dispute between the President and Republicans over Iran’s nuclear program which…

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Obama calls for end of racism against Arabs

January 20, 2015January 20, 2015 rayhanania No Comments

By Ray Hanania President Barack Obama delivered his 6th State of the Union Address before a joint session of the U.S. Congress and vowed to use his power of veto to block any partisan effort to undermine the economic gains, social changes, healthcare advances and even foreign policy strategies. Obama specifically called on Americans to…

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Freedom of the Press, is Israel listening?

January 20, 2015September 24, 2018 rayhanania No Comments

By Ray Hanania U.S. Secretary of State John Kerry delivered opening remarks to attendees at the Journalists’ Security Conference held this week in Washington D.C. Kerry, who has been far more principled than his Bush administration predecessors, reminded the group that a free press ensures that flow of accurate information, but the price has been high in…

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Netanyahu exploits Charlie Hebdo for his own motives

January 17, 2015January 18, 2015 rayhanania No Comments

By Amer Sabaileh When Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu’s attended the march against terrorism in Paris last week in the wake of terrorist attack against French satirist newspaper Charlie Hebdo, he was in reality marching for his own agendas, not against terrorism. His Paris appearance was critically designed to position himself as a direct partner…

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Orwell’s Nightmare Vanunu’s Reality and Roi Tov’s Silencing

January 13, 2015September 24, 2018 USS_Liberty Info 1 Comment

By Eileen Fleming Israeli dissident and prolific writer, Roi Tov was born in South America and grew up as Reuven Schossen, in a tight-knit communist kibbutz along the Jordan Valley. After four years of service in the Israeli Defense Force, Captain Schossen became a reservist and graduated with four degrees; three in chemical physics….

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Muslim community helps Detroit in water crisis

January 9, 2015September 24, 2018 rayhanania No Comments

Detroit’s Muslim community helps those in need during water crisis: Giving water is the best form of charity, according to the Prophet (PBUH) MMCC and Islamic Relief-USA gave $100,000 to Detroit residents this week to help with the water crisis. Over 25,000 Detroit residents have had their water shut off since last year due to aggressive…

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Amnesty International blasts Israel on ICC response

January 7, 2015 rayhanania 1 Comment

Retaliation Against Palestine’s Welcome Accession to ICC Must Stop Israel, the USA and EU member states must refrain from punishing or threatening Palestine for taking the positive step of granting the International Criminal Court (ICC) jurisdiction over crimes under international law in the Occupied Palestinian Territories (OPT), Amnesty International said today. Amnesty International welcomes Palestine¹s…

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A virtual visit to the birthplace of Christianity, Bethlehem

December 30, 2014April 13, 2019 rayhanania No Comments

By Ray Hanania As a Christian, no city in the world means more to me than the “Little Town of Bethlehem.” I write about it often, mainly to remind American Christians — many of whom have forgotten the roots of their faith and therefore the spirit of their Christianity — that Bethlehem is a real…

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Podcast: Larry Derfner of 972Mag.com on Israeli elections

December 9, 2014August 20, 2019 rayhanania No Comments

12-05-14 Larry Derfner 972mag.com on Israeli elections 972mag.com political writer Larry Derfner discusses the upcoming Israeli elections which will be held on March 17 following the collapse of the ruling coalition of Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu. Derfner argues that Netanyahu’s Likud colleague Moshe Kahlon who is a slightly conservative centrist, could help redirect Israel from…

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Israel Provoking Violence as a Political Weapon

December 1, 2014September 24, 2018 rayhanania 1 Comment

By Ray Hanania There is absolutely no justification for terrorism. And the terrorist attacks committed recently in Jerusalem — all of them by Israelis and by Palestinians — should be denounced. But unfortunately, that is not the case. The only terrorism being denounced are attacks by Palestinians against Israelis, including the recent killing of Jewish…

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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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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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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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Gaza residents await reconstruction in wake of Israeli war crimes

October 12, 2014October 12, 2014 Mohammed Asad No Comments

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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President Obama Support a FREE Vanunu END Israel’s Nuclear Deceptions

October 8, 2014September 24, 2018 USS_Liberty Info No Comments

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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