Tag: Israeli settlers

Adalah: Israel Loosening Gun Controls Puts Palestinian Lives in Peril

October 17, 2023October 17, 2023 rayhanania 2 Comments

Adalah: Israel Loosening Gun Controls Puts Palestinian Lives in Peril New regulations drastically expand the number of Jewish Israelis who are eligible to bear arms passed by Knesset committee amid state emergency. National Security Minister Ben-Gvir to heavily arm Jewish civilians and institute militias that will operate with impunity. On 15 October 2023, the Knesset’s…

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Palestinians mount hunger strike campaign against administrative detention

August 16, 2023August 16, 2023 rayhanania No Comments

Palestinians mount hunger strike campaign against administrative detention As of Sunday August 13, 2023, 14 Palestinian political prisoners have joined an open-ended hunger strike in protest of their administrative detentions in Israeli military prisons. They are demanding their freedom, having suffered under indefinite imprisonment without charge or trial. This strike, which follows a long tradition…

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Congressman Sean Casten joins Ray Hanania Radio Show

June 2, 2022June 2, 2022 rayhanania No Comments

Congressman Sean Casten joins Ray Hanania Radio Show US Rep. Sean Casten was the guest on The Ray Hanania Show on the US Ara Radio Network on Wednesday June 1, 2022, discussing his views on the Middle East, Israel and Palestine. Casten is seeking re-election to the new 6th District in the Illinois Democratic Primary…

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Israeli military, settlers and media foment violence against Palestinians

October 7, 2021 rayhanania No Comments

Israeli military, settlers and media foment violence against Palestinians B’Tselem: Apartheid’s Watchdogs in Israel Last week, on 28 September 2021, dozens of Israeli settlers, some of them armed, attacked the Palestinian community of Khirbet al-Mufaqarah, which lies in the Masafer Yatta area (South Hebron Hills) in the West Bank, in one of the most severe…

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APN urges Trump block “Legalization” of West Bank Settlements

December 17, 2018December 17, 2018 rayhanania No Comments

APN urges Trump block “Legalization” of West Bank Settlements Americans for Peace Now is urging President Donald Trump to stop impending wholesale “Legalization” of West Bank Settlement & Outposts Washington, DC The government of Israel seems to be on the verge of legalizing scores of illegal settlement-outposts in the West Bank and making it dramatically…

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Peace Now denounces settler takeover of Arab home in Hebron

April 17, 2018April 17, 2018 rayhanania No Comments

Peace Now denounces settler takeover of Arab home in Hebron And the world has to ask why some people don’t understand the BDS (Boycott, Divest, Sanction) movement which denounces and protests the violence and racism of the Israeli settler movement. Another example of how Israeli settlers violate the rights of Christians and Muslims inside Israel…

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Israel uses every trick to blame everyone else but themselves

January 30, 2018January 30, 2018 rayhanania No Comments

Israel uses every trick to blame everyone else but themselves According to Israeli government propaganda, Israeli settlers and soldiers are not killing Palestinians. Palestinians are instead throwing themselves at Israeli settler and soldier bullets, causing their own death. And Israel has a right to demand redress for those actions By Ray Hanania On June 14,…

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First, they came in as tourists, and stole our land

June 10, 2017September 25, 2018 rayhanania No Comments

First, they came in as tourists, and stole our land Israel’s terrorist Jewish-only settlers entered Hebron in 1967 as “tourists” and then occupied one of the city’s hotels, creating a base to build a new racist settlement. Today, those settlers have murdered, brutalized and assaulted Christians and Muslims in Hebron as they expand their illegal…

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14th Anniversary of the murder of Rachel Corrie

March 16, 2017September 25, 2018 rayhanania No Comments

14th Anniversary of the murder of Rachel Corrie In honor of the memory of civil rights activist Rachel Corrie, an American citizen who was killed by Israeli soldiers on March 16, 2003, her parents Cindy and Craig Corrie have issued a letter to express their gratitude to the many supporters who have memorialized her human…

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SodaStream Recalls Carbonating Bottles Due to Injury Hazard

February 22, 2017September 25, 2018 rayhanania No Comments

SodaStream Recalls Carbonating Bottles Due to Injury Hazard SodaStream Recall Summary from the U.S. Consumer Product Safety Commission Name of Product: Carbonating bottles, SodaStream Hazard: The bottles can burst under pressure, posing an injury hazard to the user or bystanders. Remedy: Refund Consumers should immediately stop using the recalled carbonating bottles and contact SodaStream for…

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Palestinians need a civil rights movement

April 13, 2016April 13, 2016 rayhanania No Comments

The American civil rights struggle of the 20th Century is no different than the civil rights struggle of Palestinians living in Israel and under occupation. But what Palestinians need is a civil rights movement that is truly driven by peaceful protest and that can help restrain the urge to vengeance and revenge. Israel is using…

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Murder in Chicago and Israel, two immoral standards

March 31, 2016September 24, 2018 rayhanania 4 Comments

You don’t kill individuals suspected in a crime, especially when they have already been shot by police and are lying on the ground incapacitated. And you don’t threaten the person who takes the video of the incident which shows the authorities walking up to the disabled and injured suspect, and shooting him in the head. It…

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Suffer the Children: Israel’s Ripping at the Roots of Palestine

September 28, 2015 rayhanania No Comments

Israeli Forces continue to target Palestinian youth in the occupied West Bank. This week, three young martyrs joined the thousands of others whose deaths tell the story of Palestinian resistance to the occupation and theft of Palestine. By Dezeray Lyn Hebron, Occupied Palestine — There are bullet holes in the metal doors siding the exit-passage of checkpoint 56 in the…

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Jewish settler terrorists murder 18 month old Palestinian child

July 31, 2015 rayhanania No Comments

Israeli settler terrorists were blamed for the burning death murder Friday (July 31, 2015) of an 18 month old Palestinian child. Israeli settlers continue to terrorize Christian and Muslim civilians without response from Netanyahu’s government. Netanyahu’s settler policies have encouraged attacks against Christian and Muslim civilians, as his rhetoric was blamed for the assassination of his predecessor…

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Should we put Israel in charge of the Kaaba?

July 24, 2015October 2, 2015 rayhanania 1 Comment

Every day, Israeli settlers openly disrespect Islam and Muslims by entering the al-Aqsa Mosque Compound and the Haram al Ash-Sharif near the Dome of the Rock to rally and protest and chant that they will one day destroy these Holy Sites and replace them with their own. And Muslims around the world do nothing about it. Would…

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Illinois Governor Rauner can do the right thing

May 20, 2015May 20, 2015 rayhanania No Comments

Illinois Governor Bruce Rauner can do the right thing and support Middle East peace by rejecting a bill sponsored by pro-Israel activist Il Rep. Sara Feigenholtz and urge the Illinois General Assembly to support peace based on Two-States, non-violence and the respect of human rights. Rauner can also take a strong stand to defend the…

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Israeli Settler attacks on Christian & Muslim Holy sites

February 26, 2015June 12, 2019 Maria Khoury 3 Comments

Israeli settlers and Jewish extremists vandalizing and defacing Christian and Muslim holy sites under Israeli control. What is the government of Israel doing to stop this? By Maria C. Khoury, Ed. D. Every day I wake up and stare at the new illegal Israeli settlement right in front of my kitchen window. It has been…