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Vietnam and Gaza: How truth will change American attitudes

  • Israel has always had the upper hand both in violence and the propaganda war against the Palestinians, with the backing of Western politicians and a heavily slanted news media.  Hamas attacked and reportedly killed 1,400 Israelis, including women and children, on Oct. 7. US politicians a...
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Should Arab Americans vote for someone just because they are Arab?

  • Back in 1959, there were very few Arab Americans running for public office. One Lebanese American did manage to break through the glass ceiling that year and win election to the US Congress — George A. Kasem in California. However, he only served one term in the House of Representatives. He was...
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Israel-Palestine conflict: Palestinians could learn from Israelis’ powerful protests

  • The American television series “The Handmaid’s Tale” is a dystopian tragedy about the oppression of women by a tyrannical government that seized power following a fictitious civil war. Its depiction of hard-line religious extremist oppression is now being used by Israelis as they protest the gr...
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Netanyahu’s strength is his rivals’ fear

  • Benjamin Netanyahu will most likely soon be sworn in as Israel’s new prime minister, representing a growing movement toward extremism in the country’s politics. After serving more than 15 years as prime minister during two spells in power up to 2021, Netanyahu’s new coalition of right-wing Zio...
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Israel has a paltry valuation of American lives

  • Two news items were reported at the same time last week about compensation being offered to the families of Americans who were killed after being restrained by police — one in Rochester, New York, and the other in Jiljilya, a small village outside of Ramallah in the West Bank. The two incidents...
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Biased reporting helps fuel violence in Palestine

  • The role of the news media is supposed to be to provide the basic facts so the public can come to their own conclusions about the rights and wrongs of any issue. But when reporters and their bosses manipulate news content to marginalize certain facts or exaggerate others, emphasizing one side o...
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Israeli killings of Palestinians are brushed aside unless victim is American

  • Coverage of violence by Israeli soldiers and armed settlers follows a distinct pattern in which the Israelis defend their actions and describe the victims as “terrorists.” With the “terrorist” label applied, the US — Israel’s biggest financial benefactor to the tune of more than $3.3 billion a...
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Report shows how Israel killed truth of Gaza protests

  • On March 30, 2018, Palestinians in the Gaza Strip began holding weekly protests against Israel’s harsh blockade. The timing was symbolic, as it commemorated the day in 1976 when six Palestinian citizens of Israel were killed while protesting against Israel’s plans to seize thousands of acres o...
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Reopening US Consulate in East Jerusalem is essential to peace

  • Israeli officials this week reiterated their opposition to President Joe Biden’s plan to reopen the US Consulate in East Jerusalem in order to restore diplomatic channels and support for Palestinian interests. After Biden’s predecessor Donald Trump threw the Middle East into turmoil by moving ...
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Israelis and Palestinians create new movement for peace

  • Though replacing hard-line Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu with another hard-liner in Naftali Bennett might not seem like much of a change, it does demonstrate that nothing lasts forever. That is something that Palestinians should always remember: That the brutality and fanaticism of ...
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