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Obama to threaten Iran with military strikein June, Israeli media reports
WASHINGTON - President Barack Obama says the United States could launch an attack on Iran as early as this June, Israeli media reports.According to a report on Israel’s Channel 10 News that has since been picked up by the Times of Israel, Pres. Obama will use an upcoming meeting overseas to discuss a military strike on Iran. Pres....U.S. finally passes stronger protections for women against abuse
WASHINGTON - The U.S. House of Representatives on Thursday ended more than a year of stonewalling a piece of legislation that for two decades has offered legal protections for women against sexual violence, harassment and abuse.The move will close gaps in related funding and safeguards that have opened since the legislation, known as the...Eight tips to stay healthy this flu season
Flu season is upon us, bringing with it new strains of the virus. So now is the time to brush up on all the flu-fighting facts.Here are eight wellness tips to help keep you and your family in tip-top shape – from what behaviors to avoid, to how homeopathic treatment can help:1. Know your risk: Seniors, children under age 5 and pregnant...Sophomore’s sudden death shocks community
February 22nd, 20130 DEARBORN — A candlelight vigil was held Wednesday night for Fordson High School sophomore Ali Hachem, who died suddenly Sunday night. “He was a good kid and full of life,” said Yasmine Ferris, Hachem’s cousin and a teacher at FHS. Family of Ali Hachem were joined by his friends, classmates and community members as...The hour scoop: A breakdown of Dearborn’s ‘Arabic time’
Arab Dearborners of the 90’s will recall this little tune from the evening lineup of an Arabic television program broadcasted locally on cable, which was, until the advent of Internet and satellite TV, one of the local Arab community’s links to the Arab world along with several Arabic cable programs that was driven out of business by...Middle Eastern entrepreneurs launch new businesses in metro Detroit
February 22nd, 20130 The Arab American News is continuing to keep track of Middle Eastern entrepreneurs who’re launching new businesses across metro Detroit, and contributing to the region’s economic stability. Here’s our latest piece on some businesses that haven’t been open for a year, and are thriving. Five Star Flower Boutique...Iraq war-Ten years later: Local scholar traveling to Sweden to discuss deteriorating conditions
DEARBORN —Henry Ford Community College (HFCC) Art History Professor Dr. Hashim Al-Tawil will be traveling to Sweden from March 6-9, where he will be giving a series of lectures and presentations at two different venues; The Museum of Mediterranean and Near Eastern Antiquities in Stockholm and at the University of Uppsala, where he was...Challenges for Obama on his upcoming Mideast visit
The peace process is unlikely to be revived with a presidential visit. Facing hardened attitudes in Israel and Palestine President Obama may have to assume a pastoral role.In the fourth week of March, Obama will visit Israel, the West Bank, and Jordan. The U.S. Ambassador to Israel has announced the agenda for this event: discussions on...Regarding America’s misplaced priorities
Editor,In the corporate/banking world the term "stakeholder" is used to describe investors who are given special preferred treatment. How does this exclusionary perspective compare with a government that is charged with the responsibility to look at and after all Americans as "stakeholders"? In the 1950s American President Dwight...Drones over there, total surveillance over here
The big story buried in all the commentary about the U.S. government's drone policy is that the old algorithm of the liberal state no longer works. Focusing on drones is almost a distraction, if it weren't for the number of men, women and children they have killed in only a few years. What we should focus on is the deeper condition that...Sen. Graham says U.S. drones have killed nearly 5,000 people
WASHINGTON - For the first time ever, a senior U.S. senator has publicly announced the number of victims of America's ever expanding drone war — and apparently it's even bigger than some independent researchers have suggested. Sen. Lindsey Graham (R-South Carolina) put a number on the United States’ growing tally of kills caused by...Palestinian Oscar nominee Burnat detained at L.A. airport
Oscar-nominated Palestinian director Emad Burnat lamented that U.S. border guards detained him and his family at the Los Angeles airport as they arrived for the awards show. Emad BurnatBurnat, whose "Five Broken Cameras" is up for best documentary at Sunday's 85th Academy Awards, said it was abnormal that he was held up at LAX for an...Oscar-nominated films depict Israel as an apartheid state
Award season is in full swing in Los Angeles, and, for the first time in the history of the Academy Awards, two films about the Israeli-Palestinian conflict are in competition for best documentary feature. For those of us invested in a just resolution to the conflict, a closer reading of these films can help decipher the meaning of this...Weighing a possible war on Iran
One of the most oft-repeated, widely accepted and habitually unquestioned beliefs about the Iranian nuclear issue is that if Iran got a nuclear weapon then Tehran would — merely by possessing such a weapon, even if it never detonated one — throw its weight around in the region in ways that it wouldn’t or couldn’t do without a...Hizbullah link to bombing doubted
When European Union foreign ministers discuss a proposal to designate Hizbullah as a terrorist organization, Bulgaria’s Foreign Minister Nikolay Mladenov will present his government’s case for linking two suspects in the July 18, 2012, bombing of an Israeli tourist bus to Hizbullah.But European ministers who demand hard evidence of......
Political violence grips Egypt from all sides
CAIRO - Since the second anniversary of the uprising that ended the Mubarak regime, Egypt has witnessed a spate of political violence. Egypt’s opposition led by the high-profile National Salvation Front (NSF) blames President Mohamed Morsi for the bloodshed, but many blame the NSF and its leaders.“The NSF’s slowness in condemning...Despite right-wing opposition, Hagel looks set for confirmation
WASHINGTON - Despite an appeal Thursday by 15 right-wing Republican senators for President Barack Obama to withdraw the nomination of Chuck Hagel as his next defense secretary, the former Republican senator from Nebraska appears virtually certain to be confirmed as Pentagon chief by the full Senate next week.The fact that his arch-foes...Dearborn attorney testifies against Ireland man charged with terrorism
February 22nd, 20130 DEARBORN — Attorney Majed Moughni testified in a trial via video conference on Wednesday against Ali Charaf Damache, who is on trial in Ireland for threatening to kill Swedesh artist Lars Vilks, a man who drew a caricature depicting prophet Muhammad as a dog. Damache allegedly threatened to kill Moughni after he had organized an...Analyst: ‘Syrian rebels too weak to target Hizbullah sites’
BEIRUT - The situation in Syria has escalated lately since terror groups are trying to counter any negotiations that could lead to a peaceful solution to the ongoing conflict, strategic expert Ameen Hutait told RT Arabic.In a new turn in the nearly two-year-old civil war, Syrian rebels warned the Lebanese political party Hizbullah to......
Obama administration reveals deep divisions on Syria policy
WASHINGTON – Though President Barack Obama has been reticent to involve his administration too deeply in the Syrian uprising, recent revelations have shown near-unanimous agreement among the president’s top national security advisers for greater military intervention.A recent New York Times story uncovered a strategy by...Deadly terrorist attacks rock central Damascus
February 22nd, 20130 DAMASCUS - A powerful car bomb exploded Thursday close to ruling party offices in Damascus, killing over 50 people and causing widespread destruction in the Syrian capital's deadliest attack for more than nine months.The bombing, which rocked the city center and sent thick smoke scudding across the skyline, was followed soon after by a......
Majority of U.S. citizens say illegal immigrants should be deported
WASHINGTON - More than half of U.S. citizens believe that most or all of the country's 11 million illegal immigrants should be deported, according to a Reuters/Ipsos poll released on Wednesday that highlights the difficulties facing lawmakers trying to reform the U.S. immigration system.The online survey shows resistance to easing...Israel to drill for oil in Syria’s Golan
OCCUPIED JERUSALEM - Israel has authorized drilling for oil on the occupied Golan Heights in a move likely to draw international protest, local media reported on Thursday.Yediot Aharonot daily said that a license to prospect had been issued to U.S.-Israeli energy company Genie, headed by Effie Eitam, a Golan settler and former hardline......