SOURCE: AL ARABIYA The year 2017 witnessed important developments linked to the ongoing movement of change in the Arab world. Some indicate that military clashes and terrorist acts will decrease, such as in Iraq, Syria and Libya, while others indicate that they will continue, such as in Yemen and terror attacks in Egypt’s Sinai. On … Continued
SOURCE: HUFFPOST BY: PETER VAN BUREN America’s serial wars in Iraq are ending with a whimper, not a bang. And in the oddest of ironies, it may be President Donald Trump, feared as a war monger, the fifth president to make war in Iraq, who has more or less accidentally ended up presiding over the … Continued
PlanetObserver / CC BY-NC-ND 2.0 SOURCE: TRUTHDIG BY: JUAN COLE In some ways, the United States faces a more favorable foreign policy environment in 2018 than it has in some years, with regard to facts on the ground. Ironically, some of the more severe challenges emanate not from objective conditions abroad but from the erratic and … Continued
SOURCE: PULITZER CENTER BY: REZA SAYAH TRANSCRIPT Judy Woodruff: Now the final installment in our series Iran Rising in Iraq that examines Tehran’s influence there, and what it means for U.S. policy in the region. Washington is worried about that sway and presence in Iraq, and is taking measures to counter it, raising U.S.-Iran tensions. But, … Continued
J. Michael Springmann/Arab America Contributing Writer Rabbi Shmuley Boteach placed a full-page ad in the Washington Post’s Sunday, December 31, 2017, edition. Spending thousands for the astonishingly prejudiced page, Boteach and his World Values [!!!] Network, are apparently ready to begin the New Year with a wave of hate. Rabbi Boteach and his inaptly-named organization … Continued
Arab towns and villages have become unpoliced territory, so criminals can keep operating as the masters of Israeli-Arab society SOURCE: HAARETZ Public Security Minister Gilad Erdan washes his hands of the problem of the police shirking responsibility for shootings and other serious crime in the Arab community. According to figures provided by Erdan in response … Continued
SOURCE: THE NATIONAL BY: JACOB WIRTSCHAFTER The Arab Parliament gave a co-ordinated, region-wide response on Thursday to Washington’s decision to recognise Jerusalem as Israel’s capital, by moving to block Israel’s 2019-2020 candidacy for a seat on the United Nations Security Council. Israel is the only country in the Middle East that has never obtained a … Continued
SOURCE: JTA BY: RON KAMPEAS WASHINGTON (JTA) — Reports that the U.S. ambassador to Israel asked the State Department to stop calling the West Bank “occupied” are misleading, a department official said. Israel’s Kan public broadcaster reported on Tuesday that David Friedman asked the U.S. State Department to stop calling Israel’s control over the West … Continued
SOURCE: MA’AN NEWS AGENCY BETHLEHEM (Ma’an) — Palestinian officials are reportedly urging Arab leaders to block Israel’s bid for a seat on the United Nations Security Council (UNSC), according to a report on Wednesday from official Palestinian Authority (PA)-owned Wafa news agency.Wafa reported that the Palestine committee in the Arab Parliament — formed at the … Continued
SOURCE: THE GUARDIAN BY: PETER BEAUMONT Israel’s transport minister is pushing ahead with a controversial plan to extend Jerusalem’s soon-to-open high-speed rail line to the Western Wall, where he wants to name a station after the US president, Donald Trump. Yisrael Katz’s proposal for the “Donald John Trump” station, which is in the initial planning stage, … Continued
The first year of the Donald Trump era was nothing less than a catastrophe for Muslims. SOURCE: NEW REPUBLIC BY: OMER AZIZ Thomas Jefferson was expecting a dinner guest. It was December 1805 and the nascent republic that Jefferson led was mired in a series of battles with the Barbary States of North Africa, whose … Continued
SOURCE: ALJAZEERA Palestinian billionaire businessman Sabih al-Masri has been detained in Saudi Arabia on a business trip to Riyadh, his family confirmed to Reuters news agency. The 80-year-old founder of Zara Investment Holding and chairman of Arab Bank was held in the Saudi capital for questioning last week about “information related to corruption”, according to Rai al-Youm. … Continued
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