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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…
Israel/Palestine Conflict: Time now to change to a human rights approach By Edith Garwood The same day Ban Ki Moon, UN Secretary General, visited the Gaza Strip saying, “a restrictive occupation that has lasted almost half a century, the continued denial of Palestinian rights and the lack of tangible progress in peace negotiations” was the…
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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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American Arab and Muslim groups denounce ISIS beheadings By Ray Hanania American Arab and Muslim organizations in the United States this week were among the voices denouncing the brutal murders of two journalists in the past two weeks including the horrendous decapitation James Foley and Steven Sotloff. Statements were released by many groups, but surprisingly, many…
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Finding the elusive Moral High Ground in Israel-Gaza War By Ray Hanania Creators Syndicate, August 28, 2014 Two-States, the plan to establish a Palestinian State on lands Israel occupied during the 1967 War, seems like an impossible task given the increasing animosity between Israelis and Jews, and Palestinians and Arabs. Yet, I have mixed feelings and…
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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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Deir Yassin Remembered recites names of murdered Gazans By Ray Hanania More than 2,100 Palestinians have been murdered by Israeli war crimes in the Gaza Strip since the Israeli military assault was launched on July 8. The vast majority are civilians and were intentionally targeted by Israeli soldiers and missile strikes, a common practice that…
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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…
Obama, Kerry silent on murdered Gaza children, civilians in latest war crime By Mohammed Asad (EDITOR’S NOTE: Warning, some photos may be too gruesome to view, except for President Obama, John Kerry or War Criminal Benjamin Netanyahu and his Israeli rightwing supporters): President Barack Obama and Secretary of State John Kerry, who each held separate press conferences…
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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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Shame on the men and women who hurl curses at President Jimmy Carter at every opportunity they get – all we see on the internet is ugliness displayed towards him. What is wrong with their sense of gratitude? Of course, a majority of good decent Israelis respect and honor him, but we don’t hear much…
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TABBOUN: MAINSTREAM MEDIA CENSORSHIP: The mainstream media continues to boycott stories about discrimination against American Arabs. Last week, the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, fired newly hired professor Steven Salaita. Salaita is an accomplished author and former teacher at Virgina Tech. Despite a story on WBBM TV, which many said was biased, the Chicago Sun-Times,…
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From Joan Rivers to Vanunu and Iran by way of WMD By Eileen Fleming Last Wednesday Joan Rivers was asked by the celebrity website Splash News Online about Israel’s Operation Protective Edge and replied, “When you declare war, you declare war. They started it. We now don’t count who’s dead. You’re dead. You deserve…
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Children with PTSD in Gaza: AIPAC and MLK in USA By Eileen Fleming Exclusive to The Arab Daily News Palestinian health officials report that since Israel’s Operation Protective Edge began on July 8th, more than 1,900 people including at least 450 children have been killed. More than 9,000 civilians including at least 3,000 children…
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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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What does it cost to buy a U.S. Senator? Not much! How about a few of them, say 33? By Ray Hanania What does it cost to buy a United States Senator? You would think it might be an expensive proposition. But it really is not, especially if you happen to be a foreign country with a…
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National Press Club condemns Iran for journalist detention, but is silent on Israel’s killing of journalists By Ray Hanania In a lucid example of the moral bankruptcy and bias of the mainstream American news media, the National Press Club issued a press release this week which condemned the Government of Iran for its detention of a…
Sharon and Hamas: How the Likud Bloc Mid-wifed the Birth of Hamas by Ray Hanania (January 2003) (Click here to view PDF with sourced footnote citations.) Hamas is considered one of Israel’s greatest threats, but the Islamic terrorist organization found its beginnings in the misguided Israeli effort to encourage the rise of a religious alternative that would undermine…
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