Ray Hanania

Regardless of the results, the Palestinian elections to succeed the late President Yasser Arafat will help expose the Palestinian people to the real substance of true Democracy. There are many candidates running […]

One of the reasons why there is no resolution to the Palestine-Israel conflict is that the media, mainly the pro-Israel American media, continues to distort facts, exaggerate stereotypes and lie. What’s ne […]

Why is world suffering often more political than world’s conflicts? Could it be that helping the victims of conflict underscores the transgressions of the victors? For that very reason, no international ag […]

Occasionally, you might read a letter or an opinion written by an Israeli Arab in one of Israel’s leading newspapers. Certainly, there are very few Arab columnists but those that do appear are limited to a na […]

The Arab World is slowly being transformed into the Muslim World as the numbers of Christians continues to dwindle. And although I am Christian by religion, I consider myself Muslim by culture. Certainly, most […]

This week, a jury convicted four organizations and its leaders of the murder of a 17 year old boy, awarding his parents $52 million in damages automatically tripled to $156 million as a result of a U.S. Law. […]

American Hollywood hero John Wayne once declared, “If everything isn’t black and white, I say, why the hell not?” Nothing better symbolizes the rejection of the notion of compromise nor accurately captures the […]

Was anyone else surprised when Secretary of State Colin Powell announced that the United States does not accept the results of the elections in the Ukraine this past week? Election officials in Kiev announced […]

America is a nation that is in transformation. Once the pillar of America’s greatness, the righteous values of justice are slowly being consumed by a national rage based on lies, racism and hate. Many Americans […]

Normally when there is a discussion about Gays and the issue of AIDS, Jewish American leaders are among the first to stand up and decry the disease and defend the rights of Gays. In fact, I have always admired […]

Ryan Karben isn’t burning a cross or championing the Ku Klux Klan, but he might as well be. Today’s racists and bigots, like Karben, don’t have to cover their faces with a pointed white hood when they assault […]

The New York Times’ self-hating “moderate” columnist, Thomas L. Friedman, always does his best to disguise his religious-based pro-Israel bias. But in the saga of the deteriorating health of Palestinian […]

Arabs don’t get the power of American entertainment, yet they spend a lot of time enjoying it. Arabs have a wealth that ranks them financially among the most powerful on Earth. If they wanted, they could invest […]

The continued deterioration in Palestinian-Israeli elections will not change unless the United States moves from the role of “empire to umpire,” a panel of Palestinian and Jewish peace activists agreed during […]

The scandal involving CBS and its now debunked report on President Bush’s service in the Air National Guard during the Vietnam War raises issues that might help people in the Middle East better understand the […]

I think it might have been too much to expect Osama Bin Laden to have picked up the telephone and called National Security Advisor Condoleezza Rice or President Bush before 19 of his mostly American-based […]

The nice thing about American politics is that even if you don’t win, you can still walk away like a winner. I wish Arabs and Muslims in the Middle East could understand that power of Democracy and one day ex […]

While the stunning landslide defeat of Spanish Ruling Party candidate Mariano Aznar is a clear defeat for President Bush and his illegal wa in Iraq, the election results in Spain are a victory for the real war […]

The Palestinians call it the Wall. Israelis cleverly give it a softer spin as “the fence.” Palestinians say it’s intended to destroy Palestine. The Israelis hide their reasons for building it behind the broad […]

While most of the world was focusing on the Palestinians who protested against Egyptian Foreign Minister Ahmed Maher at Jerusalem’s al-Aqsa Mosque, very few paid attention to the Palestinians who were killed the […]