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Why one state works
April 25th, 20090 A Palestinian protester holds up a Palestinian flag during a demonstration against the controversial Israeli barrier in the West Bank village of Nilin April 21, 2009. REUTERS/Fadi Arouri The movement for a one state solution in Palestine has been acquiring momentum and appeal, not least evidenced by growing conference meetings in...
Motorola drops bomb fuse unit following boycott campaign
April 25th, 20090 Motorola drops bomb fuse unit following boycott campaign Motorola has sold a controversial unit that produced bomb fuses and other equipment for the Israeli military, according to the Israeli financial newspaper Globes. The sale rids Motorola of some activities that had made it the target of a growing boycott in the U.S. and...
A new kind of war in Iraq
April 25th, 20090 Everyone knows the analogy of the beehive. When it is goaded, countless bees emerge, attacking the tormentor. Right now in Iraq, the formerly U.S.-backed al-Sahwa (Sons of Iraq) Sunni militia, ripe with broken promises from both the occupiers of their country and the Iraqi government that they would be given respect and jobs, have gone...Israel is more a liability than an asset to the U.S.
The Zionist Lobby (AIPAC), which is a tiny segment of the U.S. population, has gained an outrageously disproportionate and dangerous influence over our political machinery and as a result our country is on a foreign policy path that is counter to its best interests. The power of the Israeli lobby has brought about a situation in...Arabs will determine their destiny
A Palestinian boy, the son of Ammar Hudeidoun, sits near his family's belongings after the demolition of their home in Jabal Mukaber neighborhood in Arab East Jerusalem, April 22, 2009. Israel demolished the Palestinian house on Wednesday, a day after U.S. President Barack Obama called on Israeli and Palestinian leaders to take...
Community leaders to meet with law enforcement over spying, immigration issues
April 25th, 20090 DEARBORN — Arab American community leaders are to gather for a roundtable discussion with regional law enforcement officials in Dearborn on April 30 at 11:30 a.m. to discuss various rising issues of concern. Congress of Arab American Organizations officials said the meeting was scheduled as in addition to similar, regular BRIDGES...
Israeli-Palestinian conflict debated at local church
April 25th, 20090 George Khoury, R, of the group Friends of Sabeel, alongside Allan Gale, of the Jewish Community Relations Council, lawyer Jamil Khuja, Don Cohen, of B'nai Brith International and Barbara Harvey, of Jewish Voice for Peace. PHOTO: Khalil AlHajal/TAAN Local forums on the Palestinian-Israeli conflict have become increasingly common...
Video: Spoken-word artists perform at Amnesty event for human rights
April 25th, 20090 In its early days, hip hop was a way for urban youth to have a voice. When that voice got too loud, large corporations took over and started promoting the hollow, excess-obsessed, over-commercialized music that rules the charts today. The spirit of true hip hop was alive and well at the University of Michigan-Dearborn on Thursday,...Disaster of the free market
Not many economists make much clarity these days, and the general run of the mill economists who populate the majority of political and business positions seem to be mired in their own illusions and myths about what the economy actually is. James Galbraith stands out in contrast to that group and is able to see through the myths of the...
Community groups push Arab American issues
April 25th, 20090 WASHINGTON — With a former community organizer in the White House, now is the perfect time for Arab American community activists to visit Washington, D.C. The National Network for Arab American Communities (NNAAC) came to the capital last week to advocate for key issues and improve their contacts with federal officials and elected...
Take a spin, Fordson High School wins
April 25th, 20090 The Ford Flex DEARBORN — Test-driving a new car at Fordson High School on April 29 can help raise money for the school's band. Ford Motor Co. and Fairlane Ford dealership are offering to contribute $20 per spin. From 4-9 p.m. that day, for every person who stops by the school during the Drive One 4 UR School event and...The false hope of a long rope
In my daily conversations with ordinary people, I've discovered that many don't know how much a billion or a trillion dollars is. It means the same thing to them as a gazillion. So they don't begin to understand the stimulus package that is promising to inject $789 billion into the economy, nor what kind of impact it is supposed to...
Lebanese food ‘the way it’s supposed to be’
April 25th, 20090 DEARBORN — With so many restaurants focusing on the late-night youth demographic in Dearborn, it seems as if a good, honest family restaurant is becoming harder and harder to find. But New alAmin restaurant on Warren between Greenfield and Chase in Dearborn has stuck to its roots as a clean, relaxing place for an authentic,...
West Bank a time bomb waiting to explode
April 18th, 20090 RAMALLAH — Tension between Israel and Palestinians is rising sharply as reflected in a number of increasingly bloody and violent confrontations since Israel's devastating war in Gaza at the beginning of the year. Palestinians take part in a protest in the West Bank city of Nablus April 16, 2009, calling for the release of...
Israel demands recognition as “Jewish state” before negotiating
April 18th, 20090 Analysts say conditioning peace talks on new demand will thwart progress Israel's prime minister has told a visiting U.S. envoy that the Palestinians must recognize Israel as a "Jewish state" before it will discuss establishing an independent Palestinian state. Israel's Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu (R) meets U.S.......
Why Arabs are backing Sudan’s Bashir
April 18th, 20090 Sudanese President Omar Al Bashir Sudanese President Omar Al Bashir, despite being indicted on March 4 on seven counts of war crimes by the International Criminal Court, was given a "hero's welcome" by the Arab League Summit hosted by Qatar last week. The 22 nations warmly supported Al Bashir with a resolution opposing the...
Afghanistan could torpedo Obama’s domestic agenda
April 18th, 20090 President Obama (R) meets with Afghanistan President Hamid Karzai of last year. Last week, the U.S. Senate Armed Services Committee held a hearing on Afghanistan and Pakistan. It was revealed that the Obama administration is planning on sending an additional 21,000 troops to Afghanistan with no clear benchmarks for progress......
Can the United States put pressure on Israel?
Presidents Bill Clinton, George W. Bush, and now Barack Obama have all publicly stated that the United States seeks a "two-state" solution to the Israeli-Palestinian conflict. In other words, the United States supports the creation of a viable Palestinian state in virtually all of the West Bank and Gaza. The new Israeli government led by...
The killing of Islamic secularism
April 18th, 20090 Debate about the relationship between religion and state has been stifled by history – and the influence of a colonizing West. Ninety years ago in Egypt a new political party was formed. The Secular Party, as it was initially known, campaigned under the slogan: "Religion belongs to God, the homeland belongs to everyone." The...“Animal Farm” finds a Palestinian stage
Palestinian actors perform in a theater production of George Orwell's 1945 satiric novel "Animal Farm," at the Freedom Theater in the West Bank refugee camp of Jenin last month. RAMALLAH — "Intifada," scream the animals as they chase Jones from the farm. Strobe lights flash and loud music blares as the packed audience sits...After army crackdown in Bekaa, some may end support for Hizbullah
After supporting an Army crackdown against lawlessness in the Bekaa Valley, the Shi'a organization faces a backlash from angry clan members ahead of June elections. Relatives carry the coffin of one of three soldiers during a funeral in Al-Abdeh village in north Lebanon on April 14. Four Lebanese soldiers were killed when......
Do you have your organ donor sticker?
April 18th, 20090 There are approximately 3,000 of our family members, friends and neighbors in Michigan currently awaiting an organ transplant—and the miracle of a second chance at life. For some, the wait for a donor organ may take years. For others, the phone call announcing that one has been found may never come. The difference a lifesaving...National news briefs: Dennis Ross sidelined at State Dept. over foreign agent status with Israel
WASHINGTON — Former pro-Israel Washington Institute for Near East Policy (WINEP) director Dennis Ross, named by Secretary of State Hillary Clinton as her special envoy for Iran, has been sidelined at the State Department by Clinton's special envoy for Pakistan and Afghanistan Richard Holbrooke, according to informed sources at the......
Obama’s trip a success
U.S. President Barack Obama participates in a town hall meeting with university students at the Tophane Cultural Center in Istanbul April 7, 2009. REUTERS/Jason Reed The Obamas' European Odyssey was a success — despite the predictable complaints of some U.S. critics. The president and first lady took the continent by storm,...Can Israel go it alone on Iran?
Would Israel really attack Iran without at least tacit approval from Washington? Could Israel do so without such approval? At the very least, Israel would need approval simply to get permission to fly over Iraq, whose airspace is controlled by the U.S. military, not the Iraqi government in Baghdad. As columnist Aluf Benn put it in the......
