Tag: Israel

Sharon and Hamas: How the Likud Bloc Mid-wifed the Birth of Hamas

July 27, 2014October 9, 2023 rayhanania 2 Comments

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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Israel Broadcast Authority refuses to broadcast names of dead Palestinian children

July 24, 2014September 24, 2018 rayhanania No Comments

Israel Broadcast Authority refuses to broadcast names of dead Palestinian children By Ray Hanania Reminiscent of the vicious racist policies of the Apartheid Government of South Africa, the Israeli Broadcast Authority rejected an advertisement that would have read aloud over Israeli radio the names of Palestinian children murdered by Israeli soldiers in their brutal assault…

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Gaza Sisters

July 22, 2014April 13, 2019 Lilas Taha No Comments

Gaza Sisters By Lilas Taha The girl brought her head down. She swung her legs back and forth under the kitchen table and crossed her arms on the wooden surface. A single braid sat neatly in the middle of her back. A big window behind her framed her profile in the mid morning light. She looked…

Video proves Israeli targeted and killed four Palestinian children on Gaza beach

July 17, 2014September 24, 2018 Ali Younes No Comments

Video proves Israeli targeted and killed four Palestinian children on Gaza beach By Ali Younes Israeli planes targeted the four young children killed and then blamed Hamas for it. International news media reported that the four young victims were playing on the beach near where they live when Israeli planes fired at their location for…

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Media Twists Facts to Make Israel Look Good in Conflict With Palestinians

July 10, 2014August 20, 2019 rayhanania No Comments

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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Tyrant: Anti-Arab American hate TV offers new program this summer

May 29, 2014August 20, 2019 rayhanania 7 Comments

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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Gaza-Palestine Photojournalist Focuses on the Children

May 29, 2014September 29, 2018 USS_Liberty Info 2 Comments

Gaza-Palestine Photojournalist Focuses on the Children By Eileen Fleming EXCLUSIVE to The Arab Daily News Award winning photojournalist, Mohammed Asad claims his English isn’t “too good” but he can pierce a heart with his camera. The 29-year-old Asad has already placed First in a Disaster Award and competition in Gaza, Third place in a Best Picture…

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Jews and Arabs together: I am lucky to experience something I wish more could

April 29, 2014August 20, 2019 rayhanania No Comments

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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Pro-Israel propaganda keeps Americans stupid when it comes to Israel-Palestine

April 24, 2014August 20, 2019 rayhanania No Comments

Pro-Israel propaganda keeps Americans stupid when it comes to Israel-Palestine By Ray Hanania I came across a really stupid letter in the Columbia Dispatch newspaper this morning. Letter writer Barbara Doll (“U.S. is inconsistent in reaction to Crimea,” April 8) compared Israel’s presence in Palestine to Russia taking over Crimea. There is no comparison. Assuming…

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Norman Podhoretz and the face of modernday hate

April 13, 2014August 20, 2019 rayhanania No Comments

Norman Podhoretz and the face of modernday hate How the mainstream American media coddles hate, racism and bigotry By Ray Hanania If someone wrote that the Jews murdered Christ, or that they were engaged in drinking the blood of Christian children, no respectable news media would publish their vicious hate filled words. But that is…

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Vanunu’s Family Affair and US-Israeli Reality-Check: Nukes and ‘Peace Talks’

April 4, 2014August 20, 2019 USS_Liberty Info 3 Comments

Vanunu’s Family Affair and US-Israeli Reality-Check: Nukes and ‘Peace Talks’ By Eileen Fleming Exclusive to The Arab Daily News Secretary of State John Kerry said Friday the U.S. is questioning its role in the Israeli-Palestine peace talks, noting it was “reality-check time” for negotiators from both parties. In the past week, Israel cancelled the…

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American Politicians, Bought and Sold

April 2, 2014September 24, 2018 rayhanania No Comments

American Politicians, Bought and Sold By Ray Hanania Creators Syndicate April 3, 2014 New Jersey Governor Chris Christie wants to be president of the United States. He is showing how tough he is by standing up to claims he was involved in an outrageous abuse of government power. But when it comes to standing up to…

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Coalition claims victory over Silverstein anti-Arab hate legislation

April 2, 2014June 12, 2019 rayhanania No Comments

Coalition claims victory over Silverstein anti-Arab hate legislation State Senate Committee rejects Silverstein bill to censor American critics of foreign country April 2, 2014, Chicago – Yesterday afternoon, the Senate Judiciary Committee of the Illinois Senate rejected Senate Joint Resolution (SJR) 59, proposed by Senator Ira Silverstein (D-Chicago), that urged Illinois university and college presidents…

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Contrast between pro-Israel and pro-Palestinian activism

April 1, 2014August 20, 2019 rayhanania 2 Comments

Contrast between pro-Israel and pro-Palestinian activism By Ray Hanania It is amazing to watch the activists on both sides of the Arab-Israeli conflict. Clearly, the pro-Israel activists have their act together while the pro-Palestinian groups martyr themselves as an excuse for failure. During the past few months, pro-Israel lobbyists and PACs, including the villainous AIPAC,…

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Free Pollard, Free Vanunu and Reevaluate Allies

April 1, 2014August 20, 2019 USS_Liberty Info 3 Comments

Free Pollard, Free Vanunu and Reevaluate Allies By Eileen Fleming The New York Times reported that Jonathon J. Pollard’s release could be part of a deal that includes “the release of hundreds of Palestinian prisoners, including citizens of Israel, and a partial freeze on construction in West Bank settlements.” Officials involved in the Israeli-Palestinian “peace…

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Press Release: Palestinians & Israelis Take Matters into Their Own Hands

March 31, 2014September 24, 2018 rayhanania No Comments

Palestinians & Israelis Take Matters into Their Own Hands Israeli – Palestinian Public Negotiating Congress in Almog Junction April 10-11, 2014 The Israeli and Palestinian leaderships apparently do not have a working strategy to cope with their conflict. So, the time has come for the two peoples to take matters into their own hands! On April…

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Baby son who slain Judge Raed Zeiter tried to help dies in Amman hospital

March 30, 2014September 24, 2018 rayhanania No Comments

Baby son who slain Judge Raed Zeiter tried to help dies in Amman hospital By Ali Younes Alaedinne Zeiter, the 5-year-old comatose son of Jordan’s magistrate judge who was shot and killed by Israeli soldiers on March 10, Raed Zeiter, was pronounced dead in a Jordanian hospital in Amman from brain injuries that he suffered few weeks before…

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Saudi denial of visa for Israeli journalist not the real issue

March 29, 2014August 20, 2019 rayhanania No Comments

Saudi denial of visa for Israeli journalist not the real issue By Ray Hanania (Creators Syndicate, March 28, 2014. Click here to read the Arabic version of this column) This week, the mainstream American news media went berserk when it was disclosed that the Washington Bureau chief of the Israeli Jerusalem Post was denied an…

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