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Thursday Jul 06, 2017
Thursday Jul 06, 2017
Rauner Puts Criminals above interests of Illinois residents
Ray Hanania's column in the Southwest News Newspaper Group published June 15, 2017 addresses Illinois Gov. Bruce Rauner's support of criminals over addressing the needs of everyday law-abiding citizens of the State of Illinois.
The podcast/column addresses an executive order Illinois Gov. Bruce Rauner has signed making it easier for individuals accused of minor crimes who can't make bail ordered by a judge in a court of law to avoid being held in jail pending the trial date.
For more information visit www.TheDailyHookah.com
Thursday Jul 06, 2017
Thursday Jul 06, 2017
Where is the Palestinian Exodus?
Ray Hanania's column from the Arab News newspaper published June 15, 2017 asking where is the Palestinian literature version of Leon Uris' novel, Exodus?
On the 50th anniversary of the 1967 War, the Palestinians and the Arab world continue to fail to tell their stories effectively.
For more information visit www.TheDailyHookah.com
Thursday Jun 08, 2017
Thursday Jun 08, 2017
06-08-17 Kathy Griffin and the anti-Trump Jihadists
Ray Hanania's column from the Arab News newspaper published June 7, 2017 on the extremism in the mainstream American news media and biased politics against President Donald Trump and how that same hate media has fueled racism against Arabs, Muslims and Palestinians. For more information visit www.TheDailyHookah.com
This column focuses on the hypocrisy of the American left and the biased mainstream American news media which attacks President Trump hypocritically and with distortions, disguising its own role in fueling racism and hatred against Arabs, Muslims, Palestinians and other minorities in America. A recent symbol of this hypocrisy is the outrageous actions of disgusting comedian Kathy Griffin who held up a fake, bloodied severed head of President Trump recently.
Thank you for listening to my Podcasts which reflect my writings …
I write about Middle East issues and mainstream American issues in print newspapers like the Arab News and the Southwest News Newspaper group. I also write for several online news websites including TheArabDailyNews.com and SuburbanChicagoland.com.
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Thursday Jun 08, 2017
Thursday Jun 08, 2017
05-31-17 50 Years of Suffering, the 1967 Israeli War
Ray Hanania's column from the Arab News newspaper published May 31, 2017 on the 50th Anniversary of the Israeli military assault on Palestine in on June 5, 1967. For more information visit www.TheDailyHookah.com
This column focuses on the industry of suffering that failed leaders in the Arab Community had embraced for their own selfish reasons. They have created an industry of suffering so they can stay as leaders, even though they have failed to provide real leadership or a strategy for Palestinians to win.
Thank you for listening to my Podcasts which reflect my writings …
I write about Middle East issues and mainstream American issues in print newspapers like the Arab News and the Southwest News Newspaper group. I also write for several online news websites including TheArabDailyNews.com and SuburbanChicagoland.com.
Create a free icon on your mobile device for the podcasts by visiting my Podcast page at Rayhanania.podbean.com
To keep up with my world, visit RayHanania.com ... you can see links to all of his writings there.
Thursday May 11, 2017
Thursday May 11, 2017
05-11-17 Ahmad Tibi on Israel's government racism
Ahmad Tibi, the Palestinian Israeli Deputy Speaker of the Israeli Knesset addressed a dinner banquet of the United Holy Land Fund in a suburb of Chicago on Friday May 5, 2017. This is a news report on that appearance, followed by a column commentary written by Ray Hanania for the Arab News newspaper.
For more information on Ray Hanania's columns and writings visit his website at TheArabDailyNews.com.
Thursday May 11, 2017
Thursday May 11, 2017
May 4, 2017 Podcast column commentary by Ray Hanania.
Column commentary podcast discusses the growing racist trend of bias and discrimination by the mainstream American news media and journalism industry groups like the Society of Professional Journalists (SPJ) against Arab American journalists.
Published in the Arab News on May 4, 2017. For more information on Ray Hanania's columns and writings visit his website at TheArabDailyNews.com.
Read this column in the Arab News newspaper by clicking here.
Thursday May 11, 2017
Thursday May 11, 2017
May 2, 2017 Podcast column commentary by Ray Hanania
Agrabah is NOT an Arab country.
A poll by the Arab News and YouGov exposed some shocking information about the lack of education by Americans of the Middle East and Arab World.
This is my column and analysis published at the ArabNews.com on the poll of nearly 2,100 Americans, 21 percent of whom believ ethat Agrabah, the fictional land in the Disney animated film Aladdin, is a real Arab country, followed by some commentary on the survey at TheArabDailyNews.com.
Click here to read column published in the Arab News Newspaper.
Thursday Apr 20, 2017
Thursday Apr 20, 2017
Erdogan strengthens secular and moderate Muslim presence
Published in the Arab News April 20, 2017
By Ray Hanania
In any other election, if someone received more than 51 percent of the vote (a 2 ½ percent margin) over a highly controversial issue, the mainstream news media would declare it a decisive victory and a “mandate.”
But the mainstream news media doesn’t apply the same standards of civil rights for the Muslim and Arab World that they apply to the West.
Last week, Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan, one of the few truly Democratically elected leaders of the world’s 50 predominantly Muslim nations, won a referendum which expands his powers by eliminating the nation’s antiquated parliamentary system and implementing a new government similar to the one established by the United States.
Turkey has been a parliamentary system governed by a ceremonial President who appoints the country’s Prime Minister.
Many of his foes are concerned but Erdogan’s strategy is clearly intended to prevent Turkey from transforming into another religious state that could morph into a bastion of extremism.
Thursday Apr 20, 2017
Thursday Apr 20, 2017
Trump’s unpredictability is exactly what the Middle East needs
Published in the Arab News April 13, 2017
By Ray Hanania
President Donald Trump’s decision to destroy a Syrian airbase used to deploy chemical weapons against civilian targets shows that America’s new president can do what needs to be done in the Middle East.
The bombing of the Syrian air base, the first ever by an American military force in the six-year long effort by Syria’s terrorist leader Bashar al-Assad to suppress pro-Democracy protestors, is only one example of Trump’s evolving Middle East policy.
Although he campaigned on the platform of being Israel’s strongest ally, heaping praise on Israel’s rightwing Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, Trump drew a real line in the sand over Israel’s continued expansion of illegal Jewish-only settlements.
Trump has also reinforced his relations with the moderate leadership of the Arab World as strongly as he has with Israel, but without the political fanfare directing the attack on Syria only hours after conferring with Jordan’s King Abdullah II.
Thursday Apr 20, 2017
Thursday Apr 20, 2017
Israel builds ties to Christians, while Arabs remain AWOL
Published in the Arab News April 6, 2017
By Ray Hanania
Israel has expanded its powerful and effective public relations campaign to create a voice to appeal to American Christians, while the Arab World continues to ignore the growing needs of Christians in the Middle East.
Christians have continued to suffer in the Middle East and the Muslim World as Arab and Muslim leaders have urged their media to downplay stories that highlight tensions with the Christian minority.
But Christians argue that Muslims and Arabs need to do more to address their needs, including addressing their concerns in public forums where the topics have been taboo and marginalized and to support their Christian communities not just in the Arab World but in Israel, too.
Israel, on the other hand, is making the concerns of Christians one of their top priorities, giving a license to an American Christian evangelical group to broadcast their issues, and support of Israel, to Christians throughout the Middle East and Muslim World.
Thursday Apr 20, 2017
Thursday Apr 20, 2017
Jewish students complain about harassment at US campuses
Published in the Arab News March 30, 2017
By Ray Hanania
You have to hand it to AIPAC, the powerful pro-Israel lobbying group that herds American foreign policy on issues related to Israel and the Middle East.
They’ve come out with a new documentary called “Hate Spaces,” which claims to expose rising anti-Semitism on college campuses against pro-Israel students.
That’s fascinating to me because the real harassment has always been against Palestinian and Arab students at many college campuses. Only in recent years have Arab students stood up to the hate politics of the pro-Israel activists in this country.
When I was in college at the University of Illinois after serving honorably during the Vietnam War, I immediately got involved with the Arab Student Organization.
What I learned was that the University of Illinois was biased and discriminatory against Arabs.
The university provided funding, grant money, office space and all kinds of support to the Jewish and pro-Israeli student organizations, but made it impossible for the Arab Student Organization, which I headed as president in 1975-76, to get any funds or program support.
Friday Mar 31, 2017
Friday Mar 31, 2017
Faisal Abbas discusses Middle East issues on Detroit Radio
Arab News Editor-in-Chief Faisal Abbas joins Ray Hanania on Radio Baladi on live radio in Detroit to discuss issues in the Middle East and the growth of the Arab News newspaper, the leading English Language newspaper in the Middle East ... Topics include the Arab League Summit, the destruction in Syria and use of chemical weapons by Syria's tyrant Bashar al-Assad, American politics, Israel's influence in US Politics, and the Arab World's perception of American Arabs.
Broadcast on Friday March 31, 2017 on WNZK AM 690 Radio in Detroit live.
For more information visit the website at www.TheDailyHookah.com
Friday Mar 17, 2017
Friday Mar 17, 2017
Radio Baladi on Palestinian Diaspora Conference in Istanbul
Radio Host and columnist Ray Hanania hosts Radio Baladi on live radio in Detroit with guest Ali Younes, the reporter and editor at Al Jazeera English, discussing his recent coverage of the Palestinian Diaspora Conference at the end of February 2017 in Istanbul, Turkey and his observations about the different factions that were represented and those that did not attend or boycotted. More than 5,000 Palestinians attended, but what was achieved and what obstacles do Palestinians face as extremism and violence by Israel increases against peace. Broadcast on WNZK AM 690 Radio through the US Arab Radio Network live Friday March 17, 2017.
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Click here to read Ali Younes' article on Al Jazeera English.
Sunday Mar 05, 2017
Sunday Mar 05, 2017
Ellison affair exposes anti-Trump hypocrisy
By Ray Hanania
Democrats and their haters of President Donald Trump want you to believe that they love Muslims and they love civil rights.
And yet, when the opportunity came to actually love a Muslim by electing Congressman Keith Ellison as chair the Democratic National Committee, they bailed on Ellison.
Ellison is the first Muslim to be elected to the U.S. Congress. He was nominated by U.S. Senator Bernie Sanders, who was backstabbed by the hypocrite Democrats and anti-Trump haters and should have been the party presidential nominees.
But when the Democrats and the anti-Trump haters got together, they took a dive on Ellison and instead voted to elect a nobody who happened to be “Latino” (from the Dominican Republic) and was appointed to the post of U.S. Secretary of Labor by President Barack Obama. Perez never lobbied or campaigned for the spot but was pushed in to it by Obama and by the Democratic leadership and cheered by the anti-Trump haters who continue to disguise their hatred by asserting that they love Muslims, they love minorities, they love civil rights.
The truth is, their “love” is selfish politics and the suffering of Muslims, Arabs and other minorities is little more than just an opportunity for them. The anti-Trump haters will step on the backs of these “victims” in order to empower themselves politically.
You can read this column in the Arab News Newspaper in Saudi Arabia.
Sunday Mar 05, 2017
Sunday Mar 05, 2017
We must support Trump's War on the biased new media
By Ray Hanania
I’m not a big fan of the mainstream news media, which I define as the national press, (excluding the local community media).
President Trump’s attacks on the mainstream news media are justified and we should be supporting it.
The national news media lies. They exaggerate. They fuel racism and bigotry with their reporting. Their mantra “if it bleeds it leads” is the driving-force in determining what gets covered and what doesn’t.
In truth, the national news media is no longer independent, but owned by a small handful of multi-national conglomerates and corporations whose purpose is not fair reporting, but greed.