By: John Mason/ Arab America Contributing Writer Sheikh Jarrah, a community in East Jerusalem, has been home to Palestinian Arabs literally over centuries. Recently, Jewish settlers have used Israeli law to evict them from their community. This situation is a microcosm of Israeli occupation of the West Bank, in which Palestinian rights are being chipped … Continued
By: John Mason / Arab America Contributing Writer House members and Senators have both sent letters to the Biden administration requesting that it make good on its promises to the Palestinians. The letters follow a perceived delay in the administration’s undoing of four years of overly favorable treatment of the Netanyahu regime, to the detriment … Continued
SOURCE: THE JORDAN TIMES BY: JAMES J. ZOGBY I’m writing this column in the midst of the Senate trial of Donald J. Trumpand committing acts of murder and mayhem. They did so in an effort to stop the certification of Joseph Biden as the winner of the 2020 presidential election. It is now up to … Continued
By John Mason /Arab America Contributing Writer Last week in this space we enthusiastically endorsed President Biden’s initiative to reverse former President Trump’s most egregious disasters perpetrated on Israel-Palestine relations. Here we discuss Biden’s hesitancy to take on some of the more intransigent issues that contribute to Israel’s oppression of Palestinians. One of these issues … Continued
By John Mason / Arab America Contributing Writer Biden to resume U.S. aid to Palestinians despite Republican objection The Biden administration has decided to resume U.S. payments to Palestinians that the Trump administration had canceled on the premise that the Palestinian Authority had violated the Taylor Force act. This is legislation that limits funding to … Continued
SOURCE: NPR BY: RUTH SHERLOCK A Yemeni man describes how his life was derailed by the Trump administration’s travel ban and hopes President Biden’a order lifting it will help him. LULU GARCIA-NAVARRO, HOST: One of President Biden’s first acts in office was to repeal the Trump administration’s ban on immigration from several Muslim-majority and African … Continued
By: John Mason / Arab America Contributing Writer The past weeks of former President Trump’s actions and inactions have left law-abiding Americans in a state of turmoil and anger. However, relief is here. President Biden has solid plans for addressing broader issues of a degraded economy and mangled COVID’s response. The end to the Muslim … Continued
By: John Mason/Arab America Contributing Writer As with much else that Mr. Trump is up to before he leaves office after losing to Joe Biden, he is breaking eggs in different parts of the Middle East. First is Secretary of State’s Mike Pompeo breaking with tradition by visiting a Jewish settlement in the Israeli-occupied West … Continued
By: John Mason/Arab America Contributing Writer Far-Right Norwegian Lawmaker Nominates Trump for Nobel Prize One week ago, anti-immigrant Norwegian lawmaker Christian Tybring-Gjedde nominated President Trump for his work in the Middle East. Specifically, according to the Washington Post, the nomination was “for a peace agreement between the United Arab Emirates and Israel, which opens up … Continued
SOURCE: TRUTH OUT BY: STEPHEN ZUNES Donald Trump’s long-awaited “deal of the century” between Israel and Palestine essentially gives Israel’s far right coalition government everything it wanted. This Middle East “peace” deal allows Israel to annex vast stretches of the Palestinian West Bank (which has been under Israeli military occupation since 1967) into Israel, including … Continued
SOURCE: ARAB AMERICAN INSTITUTE BY: DR. JAMES J. ZOGBY At the very moment that the US Congress was voting to impeach him, Donald Trump was having the time of his life haranguing the crowd at Michigan campaign rally. He denounced Congress, ridiculed or demonized his Democratic rivals, boasted of his “many victories,” and appeared to … Continued
SOURCE: NBC NEWS BY: ASSOCIATED PRESS Although Tlaib has never lived in the West Bank, she still has relatives in the area and is widely seen as a local hero. July 16, 2019, 5:29 AM EDT RAMALLAH, West Bank — Palestinians on Monday denounced President Donald Trump’s attack on U.S. Rep. Rashida Tlaib, accusing him of racism … Continued
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