Some Somali Americans in Ohio who have witnessed civil war in the old country worry that the bitterly-divided 2016 election portends violent unrest in the United States. Though others say the US constitution is strong enough to withstand such divisions.
Jordan’s national airline carrier has posted an advertisement that takes a jab at presidential candidate Donald Trump’s proposed ban on Muslims by offering an Election Day sale of fares to locations in the United States while Muslims are still let into the country.
AFP reports: Jerusalem’s mayor Nir Barkat has warned that Palestinian homes built without an Israeli permit in the city’s annexed east could be demolished if authorities dismantle a wildcat Jewish settlement. The threat was made following a ruling by Israel’s Supreme Court ordering the evacuation and demolition of the Amona outpost, where around 40 families are living on private Palestinian-owned land near the West Bank city of Ramallah.
A new poll shows most Arabs, and especially Palestinians, think Hillary Clinton will be no better for the region than Donald Trump. “I just feel like Americans aren’t choosing between the lesser of two evils, but the quieter of two evils,” says 15-year-old Amera Abunada, a Palestinian writer now living in Turkey.
Palestinian-American Raouf J. Halaby was inadvertently added to an email list run by a White House communications liaison whose sole responsibility appears to be to address issues of concern to the American Jewish community. When Halaby responds to one of the emails and questions the administration’s policy towards Israel/Palestine, the reply is less than hospitable.
Most young American Jews have a non-Jewish parent, and intermarriage is the largest factor in distancing Jews from Israel, followed by growing offense with Israeli policies, says Steven Cohen, leading sociologist of Jewish attitudes. He said some “serious” Jewish donors have stopped giving to organizations that give money to Israel.
Latest emails from Wikileaks show that even as Benjamin Netanyahu promised voters he would not allow creation of a Palestinian state, the Clinton braintrust planned to tell Americans that “dozens of hours of convos with Bibi” had convinced Hillary Clinton that Netanyahu had “actively negotiated” to bring about a Palestinian state.
Courting John Podesta to come to his power seder last year, DC Israel advocate Lanny Davis boasted that it was “less traditional,” mostly in English, and had been formerly dedicated to Dodgers shortstop Pee Wee Reese and President Gerald Ford; and the late quarterback/Congressman Jack Kemp had once been a guest.
Why do media bystanders shut their mouths when they see critics of Israel smeared as “diseased” anti-Semites. Because of hasbara culture, a Jewish-Zionist ethnocentric way of looking at the world that is both aggressive and highly politicized.
Maen Nasser al-Din Abu Qaraa, 23, was killed at a busstop outside the illegal Israeli settlement of Ofra in the occupied West Bank Thursday after allegedly attempting to stab an Israeli soldier. 238 Palestinians and 34 Israelis have died since the wave of attacks began in October 2015.