We do need to know if either candidate is prepared to help the United States out of the box it is in. We are in an isolation box. We only talk to people we like and our prestige is at an all-time low.
Daoud Kuttab | Posted 09.02.2008 | Politics
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Ray Hanania | Posted 08.25.2008 | Politics
Biden's selection sends a clear signal that Obama has decided that he will compromise his principles and shift from what could have been the answer to the Israel-Palestine conflict to embrace Israel's agenda.
Ray Hanania | Posted 08.18.2008 | Politics
Hoping to put a positive spin to his unflattering career ending, Olmert has offered to give the Palestinians 92.7 percent of the Occupied West Bank and all of the Gaza Strip.
AP | MOHAMMED DARAGHMEH | Posted 08.12.2008 | Politics
NABLUS, West Bank — A West Bank professor is thrown into a police jeep and beaten with pipes. Detainees in Gaza are prevented from seeing lawyer...
Reuters | Posted 08.12.2008 | Politics
Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas has rejected an Israeli peace proposal because it does not provide for a contiguous Palestinian state with Jerusal...
Steve Clemons | Posted 08.06.2008 | Politics
Obama should convince the American public that he's not setting up a zero sum game between Muslims on one side and Christians and Jews on the other.
Chris Weigant | Posted 08.04.2008 | Politics
Politically, this would give both the Clintons a personal stake in the race, and would go a long way towards healing the wounds inflicted in the primaries on both sides.
Ray Hanania | Posted 07.24.2008 | Politics
Obama did all the "right" things during his tour of the Middle East. But doing the "right things" might not be enough to actually achieve Middle East peace. Obama needs to do more.
Jillian York | Posted 07.22.2008 | Home
"We Palestinians and Arab Americans have to look at this race carefully... McCain is so dangerous for us and his ideas are so malicious. So, let's pick the less worse of the two: Let's endorse Obama."
Karin Kloosterman | Posted 07.16.2008 | Green
Israel and its surrounding region suffers greatly from water shortages. Water is a national concern, and if there is one thing that concerns everyone ...
MJ Rosenberg | Posted 07.11.2008 | Politics
The people uncomfortable with Obama are the same people who believe that Bush was the best President for Israel in its history, overlooking the fact that these have been the worst eight years in Israel's history.
AP | STEVEN GUTKIN | Posted 07.02.2008 | Home
JERUSALEM — A Palestinian laborer driving a construction vehicle rammed into packed buses, tossed cars into the air and rolled over pedestrians ...
Steve Posner | Posted 07.01.2008 | Politics
Amid the cheers arising in Hezbollah's Beirut and the Gaza of Hamas, the sound of Obama's defense of Israel may also be heard.
Ray Hanania | Posted 06.24.2008 | Media
Don Imus has been making racist remarks about Arabs and Muslims for years and no one listened when Arabs and Muslims complained. That's because in our...
Earl Ofari Hutchinson | Posted 06.22.2008 | Politics
A lackluster turnout of Jewish Democrats would hurt Obama badly. And even a low double digit defection to McCain in the absolute must win swing states of FL and PA would spell disaster for Obama.
AP | IBRAHIM BARZAK | Posted 06.22.2008 | Politics
GAZA CITY, Gaza Strip — Israel allowed dozens of trucks to deliver food, diapers and clothes to the Gaza Strip on Sunday, boosting the flow of b...
Ray Hanania | Posted 06.21.2008 | Politics
Many assert that the recent Egyptian-brokered "truce" between Israel and Hamas in the Gaza Strip might open the door to a new peace initiative, but ju...
MJ Rosenberg | Posted 06.20.2008 | Politics
Cease-fire or no cease-fire, neither side is turning its swords into plowshares. Nonetheless, the truce between Hamas and Israel is a very good thing.
William Fisher | Posted 06.09.2008 | Politics
Barack Obama's recent speech to the American Israel Public Affairs Council - AIPAC - dragged many of his supporters back from denial to political real...
Robert Naiman | Posted 06.07.2008 | Politics
Obama and McCain's remarks at AIPAC have added to the widespread belief in the region that U.S. policy is beholden to the right-wing in Israel, and that there is no prospect of change on the horizon.
MJ Rosenberg | Posted 06.06.2008 | Politics
Times are changing. Barack Obama's speech to AIPAC on Wednesday was a hit even though his determination to promote negotiations was unambiguous.
Ray Hanania | Posted 05.16.2008 | Politics
The Arab American leadership is trying to play it both ways. It wants to satisfy the growing American public demand that they act with principle, while tolerating the intolerable hate speech and extremist rhetoric that is dominating the community's lexicon.
Robert Naiman | Posted 05.09.2008 | Politics
The right-wing spin machine would have you believe that former President Carter only represented himself when he went to the Middle East, and met with...
Robert Naiman | Posted 05.08.2008 | Politics
Many Jews around the world are celebrating Israel's 60th birthday this week. Mazl tov! Let us recall this week a wonderful Jewish tradition, shared b...
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MJ Rosenberg | Posted 09.05.2008 | Politics