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The push for war against Syria united politicians on both sides of the aisle

April 13th, 20180 The chemical attack video: We've seen this movie before Democrats and Republicans alike— on both sides of the aisle in the U.S. Congress, in the liberal and...

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Want to help the world? Resolve conflicts

April 13th, 20180 By Lee H. Hamilton In a world riven by tension, there's one skill that stands above all others: The ability to resolve conflict. It is the paramount challenge of our...

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The bizarre coverage of U.S. mainstream media on Gaza — How biased is the news?

April 13th, 20181 By Farah Harb The Arab American News While the U.S. media is focused on the coverage of President Trump’s “blurry” tweets bashing Syria and other...

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Rim Banna and the cultural war that Palestinians must win

April 6th, 20180 Music unites Palestinians when politicians fail. In fact, while for years the collective calls for "Palestinian unity" has gone unheeded, Palestinian music has continued...

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What are our true priorities?

April 6th, 20180 There are many times we need to ask ourselves, what are our true priorities? A couple of weeks ago, thanks to social media, and fake news, we were all made aware of a...

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After the Gaza killings, it’s time to crack down on Israel

April 6th, 20180 By Diana Buttu Israel's killing of 18 Palestinian protesters in Gaza last Friday was entirely predictable. It was also entirely avoidable. The victims...

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America is no melting pot; it is a mosaic

March 30th, 20180 By Sundus Mahdi Al-Ameen America was established as a land of hope and promise. In the turn of the 20th century, immigrants flocked from countries all over...

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Expanding the ‘our’ in the march for our lives

March 30th, 20180 By Mary Turfah On March 24, hundreds of thousands of Americans took to the streets of Washington D.C., New York, Detroit and elsewhere to protest gun...

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The last ‘peace process’ warrior: Abbas hanging by a thread

March 30th, 20180 The "deal of the century" is a farce. We suspected that, of course, but, upon his return from Washington, Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu revealed in more...

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The indispensable craft of the politician

March 30th, 20180 For the most part, we Americans value expertise. We want our physicians to possess knowledge and experience. We want our lawyers to know the law inside out. We...

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Who wants to kill Palestinian Prime Minister Rami Hamdallah?

March 23rd, 20180 On March 13, while on the way to the besieged Gaza Strip, the convoy of Palestinian Authority Prime Minister Rami Hamdallah was targeted by two 33-pounds...

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Bush’s war destabilized the Middle East, any Trump war would destabilize the entire world

March 16th, 20180 By Melvin A. Goodman As we approach the fifteenth anniversary of the unwarranted invasion of Iraq, which we are still paying for in so many ways, it is important to...

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Will Israeli policies change if Netanyahu leaves office?

March 16th, 20180 If scandal-plagued Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu exits his country’s political scene today, who is likely to replace him? And what does this mean as far as...

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Local public health effort aims to de-stigmatize sexual health

March 16th, 20180 By Maliha Ahmed DEARBORN — There is a need for culturally-competent and accurate information on sexual health and healthy relationships in the Arab and Muslim...

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We must be prudent about Dearborn’s police CVE program

March 16th, 20180 On Monday evening, I sat next to two women who are social workers in Dearborn schools and mothers to college students. We were at a community workshop held by the...

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Ahed’s generation: Why the youth in Palestine must break free from dual oppression

March 9th, 20180 As global voices continue to demand the freedom of a 17-year-old teenage Palestinian girl, Ahed Tamimi, Israeli authorities have arrested nine additional members of her...

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Now that the court has spoken, it’s time to move on

March 9th, 20180 Now is the right time for Hussein Berry and others to reconsider what they have done, to recognize the damage their actions have caused and to join the healing efforts...

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Where to start? Fix the budget process

March 2nd, 20180 You could choose any number of marquee dilemmas to illustrate how broken Congressional politics has become. Guns, Russian interference, climate change — Americans want...

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Netanyahu’s corruption: How Israeli journalists project Israel’s crimes on to Palestinians

March 2nd, 20180 What is not normal, and should never be normalized, is that Israel is the only country in the world that continues to practice Apartheid, many years after it was...

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Democrats should have debated U.S. invasion of Iraq 15 years ago

March 2nd, 20180 Fifteen years ago this week, while the Bush Administration was busy beating the drums for an invasion of Iraq, I submitted a resolution calling on the Democratic...

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From Kent State to Parkland: Will America ever learn?

February 23rd, 20180 By Laurel Krause My sister Allison was shot and killed in a domestic U.S. military massacre during a lunch time antiwar protest at Kent State University on May 4,...

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More than a fight over couscous: Why the Palestinian narrative must be embraced

February 23rd, 20180 As soon as Virgin Atlantic Airlines introduced a couscous-style salad "inspired by the flavors of Palestine", a controversy ensued. Israel's supporters ignited a social...

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U.S. invasion of Iraq: Fifteen years later

February 23rd, 20180 Over the next few weeks, I want to take a look back to February and March of 2003, to those fateful days leading up to the Bush administration's disastrous invasion and...

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Poll: More Israelis believe bribery charges against Netanyahu, but want him to stay

February 16th, 20180 TEL AVIV — Almost half of Israel's electorate believe the Israeli police, who say they have gathered evidence against Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu and...

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Our political dysfunction has turned us inward and that’s a recipe for disasters ahead

February 16th, 20180 The only times that Congress will attend to international matters is when there is, at stake, a domestic political advantage in appeasing supporters or striking out at...

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The boomerang effect: How Netanyahu made Israel an American issue and lost

February 16th, 20180 Despite massive sums of money spent to channel public opinion in the United States in favor of Israel, unmistakable trends in opinion polls are attesting to the changing...

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America mourns, prays and does nothing to address gun violence

February 16th, 20180 The thunderous hail of bullets is always followed by the silence of a nation that cannot bring itself to do anything besides offer ineffective hopes and prayers. Once...

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