Tag: Yasser Arafat

Washington Report on Middle East Affairs memorializes passing of Rev. Jesse L. Jackson

February 26, 2026February 26, 2026 News Editor News Editor No Comments

Washington Report on Middle East Affairs memorializes passing of Rev. Jesse L. Jackson In Memoriam: Rev. Jesse Jackson Civil rights icon Rev. Jesse Jackson, 84, died on Feb. 17, 2026. Corporate media reporting on his legacy will acknowledge his groundbreaking two runs for president and his civil rights work, but they are likely to leave out Jackson’s…

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Denying Palestinian Officials Visas to Join UN General Assembly: Wrong and Hypocritical:

September 9, 2025September 9, 2025 News Editor News Editor No Comments

Denying Palestinian Officials Visas to Join UN General Assembly: Wrong and Hypocritical: The American Human Rights Council (AHRC-USA) joins the international community in urging President Trump to rescind the decision to deny visas to Palestinian officials seeking to attend the upcoming 80th session of the United Nations General Assembly (UNGA 80). The session is scheduled…

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Arafat’s legacy an inspiration to everyone seeking freedom, justice

November 15, 2019 rayhanania No Comments

Arafat’s legacy an inspiration to everyone seeking freedom, justice By Ray Hanania I met Yasser Arafat many times over the years. He was a true hero, a champion of justice and a champion to free his people, the Palestinians, who lived under the violent and oppressive yoke of the militant Israeli regime. Israel survives today…

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Kushner and Greenblatt making same mistake Begin made in 1977

June 1, 2019June 1, 2019 rayhanania No Comments

Kushner and Greenblatt making same mistake Begin made in 1977 Analysis of the upcoming Economic Summit in Bahrain on June 25-26 to be led by President Trump’s Middle East “advisers” Jared Kushner and Jason Greenblatt, two fanatic supporters of Israel’s rightwing government policies that have undermined peace. Kushner and Greenblatt are pursuing an extremist pro-Israel…

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Oslo and the peace process were never really the problem

September 26, 2018September 26, 2018 rayhanania No Comments

Oslo and the peace process were never really the problem Critics who assert that the Oslo Peace Accords failed because they were flawed are actually the extremists who engaged in a campaign to block the success of the Oslo Peace Accords. The very people attacking the Oslo Peace Accords and the Two-State Solution are the…

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Ashrawi laments flaws in peace process, Israeli bad faith

September 12, 2018September 12, 2018 rayhanania No Comments

Press Release: Ashrawi laments flaws in peace process, Israeli bad faith Dr. Ashrawi: “The built-in flaws in the Declaration of Principles and Israeli negotiations in bad faith have brought conditions to a critical phase” On the occasion of the 25th anniversary of the signing of the Declaration of Principles on Interim Self-Government Arrangements (DOP), PLO Executive Committee…

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President Trump is the catalyst the Arabs need to force them to act

December 6, 2017December 6, 2017 rayhanania No Comments

President Trump is the catalyst the Arabs need to force them to act In recognizing the Occupied City of Jerusalem as the Capital of Israel, President Trump is tossing the Middle East Game Board in the air. Middle East peace has been in a coma for 22 years since Israeli extremists assassinated Yitzhak Rabin and…

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Israel’s rejection of Arafat Street reflects rejection of peace

March 15, 2017June 12, 2019 rayhanania No Comments

Israel’s rejection of Arafat Street reflects rejection of peace Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu stepped in this past week to force residents of an Israeli city consisting of mostly Muslim and Christian Palestinians to remove a street sign etected to honor the late Palestinian President Yasir Arafat. Click here to read Ray Hanania’s column on this…

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Podcast: Obama follows Clinton in Middle East peace failure

October 3, 2016June 12, 2019 rayhanania No Comments

Podcast: Obama follows in Clinton shadow to build “pro-Israel legacy” Published in the Arab News, Saudi Arabia Sept. 30, 2016 By Ray Hanania Many Arabs believed newly elected President Barack Obama would re-balance America’s heavily pro-Israel foreign policy, including establishing a Palestinian State. In fact Obama didn’t disappoint Arab World or Palestinian expectations when he…

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Heroes, cowards and real terrorists in the Middle East

October 28, 2015September 24, 2018 rayhanania No Comments

This weeks marks the 20th anniversary of the murder of Yitzhak Rabin and the destruction of the Palestine-Israel peace process by Israeli extremists led by Benjamin Netanyahu. As the region spirals into greater violence, Netanyahu rises as the singular cause of this vicious cycle of death and destruction By Ray Hanania This week marks the…

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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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Profile Nafeh AbuNab: His book is called “Nothing” but his life has been about everything

December 2, 2013September 20, 2018 rayhanania No Comments

Nafeh AbuNab: His book is called “Nothing” but his life has been about everything By Ray Hanania No one has been documenting the life and times of the Arab community of Detroit better than Nafeh AbuNab, a Palestinian from Ramallah, whose life has taken him through so many twists and turns, you’d think he was 50…

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