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Obama names Mitchell Mideast envoy
January 24th, 20090 President moves to close Guantanamo, end torture, work on Mideast peace U.S. President Barack Obama (L) listens to newly appointed Mideast envoy George Mitchell at the State Department in Washington January 22, 2009. REUTERS/Kevin Lamarque Moving quickly to undo a contentious Bush administration national security program and...
Community reacts with measured optimism to Obama inauguration
January 24th, 20090 DEARBORN — Arab Americans watched the inauguration of President Barack Obama on Tuesday with as much pride and awe as the rest of the country, but seemingly with a little extra anticipation and apprehension. Palestinian rights activist Hasan Newash applauds as a group watches President Barack Obama take the oath of office in...
Detroit mayoral forum to address Arab American concerns
January 24th, 20090 Community organizers are putting together plans for a forum on the Detroit mayoral race to take place at the Islamic Center of Detroit, 14350 Tireman Street, giving candidates an opportunity to address concerns of the Arab American community. Ken Cockrel Jr. The current field of 15 candidates to replace disgraced former...Israel admits troops may have used phosphorus shells in Gaza
Amnesty warns Israel could be guilty of war crimes JERUSALEM — Israel has admitted – after mounting pressure – that its troops may have used white phosphorus shells in contravention of international law, during its three-week offensive in the Gaza Strip. Sabbah Abu Halima, who is suffering from very deep burns on her arm...
World optimism
January 24th, 20090 WASHINGTON (IPS) — Perhaps never in human history have the hopes of so many people for positive change in international relations rested on one person as they do on Barack Obama, inaugurated as the 44th president of the United States Tuesday at noon Washington time. U.S. President Barack Obama gestures while delivering his...The need for a humanitarian crisis
Targeting civilians was a deliberate part of this bid to humiliate Hamas and the Palestinians, and pulverize Gaza into chaos. The scale of Israel's attack on the Gaza Strip, and the almost daily reports of war crimes over the last three weeks, has drawn criticism from even longstanding friends and sympathizers. Despite the Israeli...
MLK rally highlights support for Gaza
January 24th, 20090 DETROIT (PANW) – For the sixth straight year, the annual commemoration of the birthday of Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. was hosted at the historic Central United Methodist Church downtown. This year's event took on added significance since it was held just one day before the inauguration of the first African American president of the...Ideology of racial supremacy will be the end of Israel
The merciless Israeli bombardment of Gaza has stopped — for now — but the death toll keeps rising as more bodies are pulled from carpet- bombed neighborhoods. What Israel perpetrated in Gaza, starting at 11:30 am on 27 December 2008, will remain forever engraved in history and memory. Tel al-Hawa, Hayy al-Zeitoun, Khuzaa and other...
Israeli decries house demolitions
January 24th, 20090 Jeff Halper is co-founder of the Israeli Committee Against House Demolitions and a Professor of Anthropology at Ben Gurion University. He has researched and written extensively on Israeli society and Israel's occupation of Palestinian lands. Jeff Halper, an American-born Israeli Jew, spoke at a Canadian Senate meeting room on Jan....Communities get help with digital crossover
DETROIT — New America Media and the Leadership Council on Civil Rights (LCCR) met with ethnic media in seven states this week to address the lack of information about the transition to digital television (DTV). Despite the government funds to subsidize the converter boxes and President Obama's request to Congress to postpone the...
Let us have the audacity of hope
January 24th, 20090 If the president's actions mirror his words, change is indeed upon us. President Barack Hussein Obama devoted about half of his inaugural speech this week to domestic issues, half to America's place in the...Not to remain silent
I write simply not to remain silent in the face of U.S. and Israeli aggression against the Palestinian population in general, and the Gaza population in particular. A Palestinian woman sits amongst the ruins of her destroyed house in Jabalya in the northern Gaza Strip January 20, 2009. Israel planned to complete a troop pullout...
Local beatboxer in Jordan radio contest
January 24th, 20090 Stevie Soul Fans of local musician Stevie Soul can vote online for the unique beatboxer to be named "Jordan's Best Talent," in a contest put on by a Jordanian radio station seeking worldwide votes. Stevie Soul, a Redford Arab American of Palestinian and Jordanian heritage, regularly performs at local schools and community...Reinstatement of sheriff’s deputies ordered
A Wayne County judge has ordered 44 staff members of the Sheriff's office back to work, ruling on Wednesday that County Executive Robert Ficano can't directly cut Sheriff Warren Evans' staff. In his decision, Circuit Court Judge Michael Sapala said the issue was separation of powers. He said it is the County Commission's responsibility...
ADC announces MLK scholarship winners
January 24th, 20090 The American Arab Anti-Discrimination Committee Michigan announced on Thursday the winners of its 10th annual Martin Luther King, Jr. Scholarships. Awardees are to be honored at the groups annual MLK awards dinner on Jan. 30 at the Greenfield Manor Banquet Hall, 4770 Greenfield Road in Dearborn, at 6 p.m. The competition was......
Video: UK Jewish MP: Israel acting like Nazis in Gaza
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Youth gathering honors MLK, Gaza victims
January 24th, 20090 DEARBORN -With its 10th annual Martin Luther King Jr. Scholarship Awards Dinner less than two weeks away, the American Arab Anti-Discrimination Committee (ADC) called upon last year’s winner, Abbas Alawieh, to speak to a group of kids Monday in an event honoring the civil rights leader. Winner of ADC's 2008 Martin Luther......
Video: Emotional Israeli newscasters broadcast Gaza father’s anguish
January 20th, 20090 Israeli TV broadcast three minutes and 26 seconds of a Palestinian father's hysterical cries Friday night after three of his daughters were killed when his Gaza home was shelled by Israeli tanks. Izz el-Deen Aboul Aish is a gynecologist at a major hospital in Tel Aviv and is well known among Israeli doctors and journalists. Aboul...
Humanitarian aid rushed into Gaza as shaky truce holds
January 19th, 20090 RAMALLAH (IPS) - Humanitarian aid is being rushed into Gaza as Israel and Egypt open their borders temporarily to allow convoys of aid to pass through. A Hamas police officer directs traffic on a street in Khan Younis in the southern Gaza Strip January 19, 2009. Palestinians took stock on Monday of the devastation from a...
District denies Arabic will be banned at Fordson
January 17th, 20090 Fordson High School in Dearborn has a student body made up of over 90 percent Arab Americans. DEARBORN — A report by the Michigan Leadership Institute (MLI) has recommended that Dearborn Public Schools "prohibit the use of any language other than English within" Fordson High School, except when needed for effective communication...
Michigan congressional delegation supports Israel resolution
January 17th, 20090 U.S. Reps. Dingell and Kilpatrick vote 'present' The U.S. House and Senate backed Israel's ongoing bombardment of the Gaza Strip in two strongly-worded, non-binding resolutions last week, despite hundreds of letters that activists said were sent to representatives begging for action toward an immediate ceasefire. The Senate......
How Israel’s propaganda machine works
As in past Mideast conflicts, both the media story line and political commentary here in the U.S. has closely followed Israel's talking points on the war. This has been an essential component in Israel's early success and in its ability to prolong fighting without U.S. pushback. Because it recognizes the importance of the propaganda war,...Guantanamo detainees’ poems come to life on stage
When inmates of the infamous Guantanamo Bay U.S. detention center in Cuba wrote poetry behind bars, they did so with little expectation of it ever reaching a wide audience. But thanks to the non-profit Actors and Poets Group of New York, the personal thoughts expressed in prisoners' poems will be made public in a brand-new......
Olmert’s claims revive specter of “Israel Lobby”
WASHINGTON (IPS) — The U.S. State Department fiercely denied claims made by Ehud Olmert about his influence over President George W. Bush, in an incident that has stirred up old debates about the role of the Israeli government and the so-called "Israel lobby" in formulating Middle East policy in Washington. Israel's Prime...
News briefs: MLK event for Gaza will focus on children
January 17th, 20090 Local groups are organizing a Martin Luther King Day event focusing on children and the war in Gaza. ADC Kids Club is to present Children for Peace in Gaza (CPG) on Monday, Jan. 19, 5:30 p.m. at the Greenfield Manor, 4770 Greenfield Road in Dearborn. "CPG is an ADC Kids Club initiative to engage the children in the U.S. to assist......
