DEARBORN – Several thousand demonstrators marched, chanted and waved flags, signs and banners along Warren Avenue in Dearborn on Tuesday, protesting Israeli airstrikes in Gaza that have killed more than 370 people since Saturday, including at least 64 civilians, according to U.N. estimates.

Rubeiz commentary: The Israeli motives in the war on Gaza are understandable but the military adventure is unwise. The blind shelling by Hamas of rockets on civilian communities in south Israel is inexcusable. But to stop the shelling there are better ways than launching a war on a community of 1.5 million people that is trapped.

At least 220 Palestinians, including women and children were killed Saturday in an Israeli aerial bombardment on Hamas security installations.

WASHINGTON - Case files of U.S. Justice and Treasury Department refusals to investigate money laundering allegations since the year 2005 are now online.

In this protest, one size fits all. On Dec.14, Iraqi television reporter Muntadhar al-Zeidi made his claim to a footnote in history by throwing his shoes at a visiting George W Bush.

This issue of The Arab American News brings us to the close of 24 years of publishing. The coming year will be an important transition in our national leadership

"Reflections: An Exhibition of Contemporary Arab American Art" is set to open in January to showcase the work of first generation Arab Americans is being prepared at Henry Ford Community College, curated by well-known local artist and professor Hashim Al-Tawil.

While Israel, as a collective entity, continues to wander the corridors of the retirement home of history as an old man with Alzheimer's, there are those who forever remain young and alert.