Double standards exist even on hate in Israel By RAY HANANIA Rabbi Ovadia Yosef, the founder of the rightwing Israeli religious Party Shas, died this past week. More than 800,000 Israelis, mostly religious, gathered to commemorate his life work in… Read More ›
Mahmoud Abbas
Land is the issue in Israel-Palestine conflict
Land is the issue in Israel-Palestine conflict By Ray Hanania Stealing someone’s land is the same as stealing someone’s life. Taking their home, their land and forcing them out onto the street, what Israel has been doing systematically based on race… Read More ›
Obama, Israel, Palestine and peace
Obama, Israel, Palestine and peace Saudi Gazette Sunday, March 24, 2013 By Ray Hanania ARABS and Jews are emotional people. We live on an emotional roller coaster that one day swings high on anger and on another day swings high on… Read More ›
There is a future for Palestinians and Israelis
There is a future for Palestinians and Israelis By Ray Hanania The surprise rise of Yair Lapid’s “There is a Future” Party in Israel, which galvanized the dormant peace movement to rise to a major political victory in Israel’s elections… Read More ›
Unilateral borders and a new Palestinian strategy
Unilateral borders and a new Palestinian strategy By Ray Hanania (Creators Syndicate) – A top official in Israel’s government has threatened to unilaterally define the borders of a Palestinian state claiming that the deadlock is not in the Jewish State’s… Read More ›
Yalla Peace: Palestinian financial problems
Yalla Peace: Palestinian financial problems By RAY HANANIA 05/22/2012 JERUSALEM POST Recently, Israel has withheld large sums of funds from the Palestinians, putting the daily lives of more than 174,000 Palestinian government employees in peril. Much is made of the… Read More ›
Yalla Peace: Hope for peace at a roadblock
Yalla Peace: Hope for peace at a roadblock By RAY HANANIA02/14/2012 JERUSALEM POST Israeli and Palestinian leaders refuse to take the steps necessary to make peace. It’s almost become normal for Palestinians and Israelis who support peace to find themselves… Read More ›
Avoid the misunderstandings to get to Palestinian-Israeli peace
Avoid the misunderstandings to get to Palestinian-Israeli peace By Ray Hanania-– When Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu met Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas at the White House with President Obama, they were careful not to make fun of Obama, whose popularity is… Read More ›
07-17-09 Aljazeera kicked out of West Bank exposes issues
Aljazeera Arabic under siege in West Bank and in its editorial offices By Ray Hanania — Aljazeera Arabic became the first television station to broadcast balanced news about the Middle East, but over the years its editorial staff has expanded… Read More ›
HANANIA: Arabs driven by biases that mirror Israeli biases, For Immediate Release, March 16, 2008
Arabs driven by biases that mirror Israeli biases By Ray Hanania — Last month, Hamas terrorists fired rockets into Israel and killed an Israeli girl. The attack provoked a massive response from Israel which claimed to target Hamas militants but… Read More ›
HANANIA: US Presidents and the last minute push for peace, For Immediate Release, 01-09-08
U.S. Presidents and the drive for Middle East peace By Ray Hanania — What is it about Presidents who wait until the last minute to try and achieve peace in the Middle East? President George W. Bush is in Jerusalem… Read More ›
HANANIA: Don’t allow Hamas to recapture control of Palestine, For Immediate Release, 12-11-07
Don’t allow Hamas to regain any control in Palestine By Ray Hanania — The acronym FATAH is based on the Arabic words “Harakat al-Tahrir (Al-Watani) al-Filasteen,” a movement dedicated to the (national) liberation of Palestine. Hamas is based on the… Read More ›
HANANIA: Palestinian tragedy of “normalization” blocks their freedom, For Immediate Release 12-07-07
The Wall of “normalization” that inhibits Palestinian independence By Ray Hanania — (Jerusalem, Palestine/Israel) Palestinians I meet always point to the Israeli occupation as the main stumbling block preventing them from achieving independence and driving their oppressive lives. But I… Read More ›
ALARABI: Sweet talk at Annapolis, For Immediate Release, 11-28-07
Sweet talk at Annapolis By Ali Alarabi — Although the speakers meeting in Annapolis were optimistic and almost encouraging in their speeches regarding bringing lasting peace to the conflict between Israel and the Palestinians, a peace, in the words of president Bush… Read More ›
HANANIA: Annapolis peace summit faces major challenges, For Immediate Release, 11-25-07
Annapolis peace summit faces major challenges By Ray Hanania — If Israel really wanted to torpedo the Annapolis Peace Summit, as some Arabs insist, it wouldn’t have to work very hard to do it. The Palestinians and most Arabs are… Read More ›
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