Obama's Growing Pro-Israel Cabinet Should Not Worry Allies of Just Peace
By Ray Hanania -- Like all Arab Americans, I was disturbed when Barack Obama selected U.S. Senator Joseph Biden as his running mate. Biden's appointment was clearly intended as a signal to put Jewish American and pro-Israel voters at ease. ...
Obama’s Revolution:
By: Ali Alarabi -- Senator Barack Obama’s victory is no less important than storming the Bastille more than 200 years ago in 1789 which was perhaps the one iconic event that ushered the dawn of the French revolution that ended up changing the French people along with France and Europe and ...
Arab Americans have substantial presence in Tuesday’s elections
By Ray Hanania -- Despite the challenges of an American system that discourages their involvement, Arab Americans are involved in the political elections this week on all levels, as candidates, as voters and as controversies.
Various sources estimate that there are between 3.5 and ...
Who is Rashid Khalidi and why is he a factor in the presidential election?
By Ray Hanania -- To hear supporters of John McCain explain it, you would think Rashid Khalidi was a gun-toting terrorist bent on the destruction of the United States. And that’s just the tip of the iceberg ...
Cross-border attacks in Syria and Pakistan are not coincidence
By Ray Hanania -- The Bush administration will start a war for oil. And one week before a presidential election, with his Republican party’s candidate waning in the polls, the Bush Administration will also start a war for politics.
That’s exactly what took place ...
Jury in controversial Iraq War contracts case deadlocks, second time
By Ray Hanania -- For the second straight time, jurors deadlocked in the Federal prosecution of a former Halliburton contract manager accused of inflating a price in exchange for an alleged bribe. The deadlock only confirmed what defense attorneys had argued in defending ...
Judge’s actions overshadow already troubled Iraq war contracts case
By Ray Hanania -- Jurors in the controversial Halliburton corruption case playing out in a Federal Courtroom in Peoria complained to U.S. District Court Judge Joe Billy McDade last week they were “deadlocked” following their first full day of deliberations in the ...
Dueling hoaxes expose more than youthful lies in bonfire of the bigotries
By Ray Hanania -- The incidents happened weeks apart, a young Christian girl in Palos Heights, a community notorious for anti-Arab hatred and racism, told police that she had been sexually assaulted by an man she described as “Arab looking.” Police ...
Why should Arab and Muslim Americans vote for Obama?
By Aladdin Elaasar -- Islam has come to the forefront of American presidential elections this year. With allegation that Barak Obama is a Muslim, or an Arab- which he is not- fear has been used by his opponents to tie him to some foreign ...
Sarah Palin: Re-igniting the culture wars, Part II
By Aladdin Elaasar -- “The hypocrisy is rank. Bristol, Palin’s daughter “made the decision on her own to keep the baby,” McCain’s aides told the press. That’s not a choice pregnant teens would have under the proposed administration of her mother and McCain. As ...
Sarah Palin: Re-igniting the culture wars, Part 1
By Aladdin Elaasar -- In his recent column in the Huffington Post, Jay Rosen claimed that republicans will try to spin Palin's shortcoming into strengths, by revving up the culture wars. “As more emerges about how the McCain camp made the decision, the appointment looks ...
Halliburton corruption case goes to the jury
By Ray Hanania -- (Peoria, Il., Thurs. 10-16-08) – The controversial prosecution of a Chicago area man accused of taking a bribe while managing contracts for Halliburton in Kuwait during the start of the Iraq War was turned over to a Federal Jury Wednesday following ...
How Admiral McCain cost the lives of 24 Americans on june 8, 1967
By Ray Hanania -- On June 8, 1967, the Israeli military was in the midst of a war with its Arab neighbors. At the time, they were engaged int he battle and did not fully grasp how easily ...
Racism lingers large in presidential election
By Ray Hanania -- When one of his supporters went to the microphone at a Republican presidential rally and called Democrat Barack Obama an “Arab,” John McCain immediately took the microphone away and said “No ma’am.” And then McCain added the line that really hurt ...
Anti-Arab racism continues to plague southwest Chicago suburbs
By Ray Hanania -- It has been nearly a decade since residents of Palos Heights sullied their community by rising in protest against their neighbors who happened to be Muslim who sought to open a Mosque where they could observe their religion. The move pushed ...
Who is the real Sarah Palin, Part 2
By Aladdin Elaasar -- Sarah Palin was elected Alaska's youngest and first woman governor in 2006. On stage, in front of the Republican National Convention she was dressed in a conservative black power suit, her hair raised in a high ponytail, she described ...
Who is the real Sarah Palin? Part 1
By Aladdin Elaasar -- As he took to the stage, in front of a packed audience, McCain introduced her as "exactly who I need, exactly who this country needs to help me fight the same old Washington politics of me first and the ...
