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January 10th, 20098 Grant opportunity for Arab American organizations The Center for Arab-American Philanthropy (CAAP) is offering support and capacity-building grants ranging from $5,000 to $20,000 for Arab American organizations. Funds are available through individual donors and support from the W.K. Kellogg Foundation. The deadline to apply for...
Community protests Gaza genocide
January 9th, 20090 The streets of downtown Detroit were painted red, green and black on Thursday, Jan. 8 as more than 1,000 protested Israel's attacks on the Gaza Strip. Pro-Palestinian protesters lined Michigan Avenue by the McNamara Federal Building in downtown Detroit on Thursday as passing motorists honked in support of their cause....
Israel’s collective punishment of Gaza, chemical weapons, deaths of women and children all supported by U.S.
January 9th, 20090 Since Israel began its war on Gaza 14 days ago, more than 800 Palestinians – about half of them women and children – have been killed. Some 3,200 Gazans – about half of them women and children – have been wounded. Israel's "Operation Cast Lead" marks an escalation of Israel's two-year blockade of the Gaza...
Networks’ int’l news coverage at record low in 2008
January 9th, 20090 WASHINGTON (IPS) — Despite two wars involving more than 200,000 U.S. troops and a global economic crisis, foreign-related news coverage by the three major U.S. television networks fell to a record low during 2008, according to the latest annual review of network news coverage by the authoritative Tyndall Report. Squeezed out by...
Israeli shelling kills dozens at UN school in Gaza
January 6th, 20090 People look at bodies of Palestinians near a U.N.-run school in Jabalya in the northern Gaza Strip January 6, 2009. Israeli tank fire killed up to 40 Palestinians at a United Nations school in the Gaza Strip on Tuesday, medical sources at two hospitals said. REUTERS/Ismail Zaydah The civilian death toll in Gaza increased...
Israel begins Gaza ground offensive
January 3rd, 20090 Israeli soldiers advance near the border with central Gaza during a ground operation by the Israeli army late January 3, 2009. Israeli troops clashed with Hamas fighters as they advanced into Gaza on Saturday in the first ground action of an eight-day offensive on the Palestinian enclave, a witness and the Israeli army said....
Hundreds protest Gaza bombardment in second local demonstration
January 3rd, 20090 DEARBORN - About 500 people from varying ethnic and religious backgrounds showed up in front of the steps of City Hall on Friday to protest Israel’s bombing of the Gaza Strip over the past week, and to hold a candlelight vigil for victims of the conflict. Protestors brave the cold at the steps of Dearborn City Hall on Friday...
Thousands gather in Dearborn to protest Israeli airstrikes
December 31st, 20080 Second demonstration scheduled for Friday, 5 p.m. in front of Dearborn City Hall. 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...
Gaza war is a repeat of the 2006 and 1982 wars
December 31st, 20080 Israeli tanks move just outside the northern Gaza Strip December 29, 2008. Israeli aircraft attacked Hamas targets in Gaza on Monday, the third day of an offensive that has killed more than 300 Palestinians, many of them civilians. Hamas defied the strongest assault against Palestinian militants in decades by launching a rocket...
Arab Americans to protest Israeli assaults on Gaza
December 28th, 20080 DEARBORN - Arab American organizations called the community to action on Saturday in condemning and demanding and end to Israeli airsrikes on Gaza that began Saturday, killing more than 280 as of Sunday afternoon. Pro-Palestinian demonstrators protest near the Israeli Embassy in London December 28, 2008, against the Israeli...
Community leaders call for actions to stop the killings in Gaza
December 28th, 20080 Community leaders call for actions to stop the massacre against Palestinians in Gaza Bodies of Palestinian policemen lie on the ground of their destroyed police compound following an Israeli air strike in Gaza December 27, 2008. Israeli air strikes in the Gaza Strip on Saturday killed at least 275 Palestinians, health...
Hundreds die in Israel raid on Gaza
December 27th, 20080 Smoke rises after an Israeli air strike in the northern Gaza Strip December 27, 2008. Israeli warplanes and helicopters pounded the Hamas-ruled Gaza Strip on Saturday, killing at least 208 people in one of the bloodiest days for the Palestinians in 60 years of conflict with the Jewish state. REUTERS/Baz Ratner At least 220...
2008 year in review
December 26th, 20080 The Arab American News' top headlines and front pages of 2008 International • Iraqi refugees struggling in U.S., want to go back • Hundreds of thousands cross downed Gaza wall • George Habash leaves legacy of resistance • Afghan torture scandal widens • Hizbullah commander killed in Syria blast • Hamas renews...
Auto meltdown
December 26th, 20080 PHOTO: REUTERS/Rebecca Cook A 63-year-old Ford auto dealership has been bought out as pressures increase to thin the number of Detroit-area dealerships. A worker carries away a Ford logo sign from Al Long Ford auto dealership in Warren in the photo at left, taken Dec. 23. The image illustrates the intense uncertainty...
UNIFIL troops treat Lebanese children
December 26th, 20080 AIN IBL, LEBANON - Ten toddlers at a nursery school in this southern Lebanon village had a surprise visit from an unlikely version of Santa Claus this week when French United Nations soldiers dressed up to hand out Christmas gifts. A French UNIFIL soldier with a toddler at the Ain Ibl nursery school in South Lebanon, where the......
DOJ and Treasury rebuff calls to investigate alleged $60 billion Israel money laundering ring
WASHINGTON - Case files of U.S. Justice and Treasury Department refusals to investigate money laundering allegations since the year 2005 are now online at: http://www.IRmep.org/ila/moneylaunder An Israeli man walks in Ma'ale settlement near the West Bank city of Ramallah September 14, 2008. REUTERS/Gil Cohen Magen On March 3,...Improving the United States’ image in the Middle East
Concern about the United States's image in the Middle East is not simply a frothy concern about being liked, because the United States's image is crucial to its soft power. When the United States is unpopular in the region, it is more difficult for governments there to cooperate with it and it becomes politically rewarding for leaders to...Shoe hurtling political, not cultural
Analysts tying event to cultural phenomenon, obscure motive A protester holds up a placard, in support of the Iraqi TV journalist Muntazer al-Zaidi, in front of the former U.S. embassy in Tehran December 24, 2008. REUTERS/Morteza Nikoubazl The symbolism of last week's shoe throwing incident is explosive, but unfortunately the...Economy, ties with West are key to Iran polls
TEHRAN (IPS) - The main issue in Iran's June 2009 presidential election is certain to be the country's economic woes, but both candidates will be linking the economy to the issue of relations between Iran and the West, according to Iranian politicians and political analysts. Iran's President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad in Tehran,......
Qatari boat arrives with aid for Palestinians in Gaza
GAZA - The "Dignity" boat docked at the Gaza city harbor at an early hour on Saturday carrying one ton of Qatari medical aid along with representatives of Qatari charitable society and other activists. MP Jamal Al-Khudari, the head of the popular anti siege...Overcoming the zero-sum hurdle
WASHINGTON (IPS) - It seems as if the Palestinian-Israeli conflict has been dissected from every possible angle. An Israeli soldier gestures from a tank near Kibbutz Kissufim, just outside the central Gaza Strip December 22, 2008. Palestinian armed groups in Gaza observed a 24-hour halt to rocket fire against Israel at the......
U.S. military defiant on key terms of Iraqi pact
WASHINGTON (IPS) - U.S. military leaders and Pentagon officials have made it clear through public statements and deliberately leaked stories in recent weeks that they plan to violate a central provision of the U.S.-Iraq withdrawal agreement requiring the complete withdrawal of all U.S. combat troops from Iraqi cities by mid-2009 by...Can Obama restore our image in Mideast?
U.S. President-elect Barack Obama waves to onlookers as he leaves Anderson Hall after meeting with U.S. Marines on Christmas day at Kaneohe Marine Corps Base Hawaii in Kailua December 25, 2008. REUTERS/Hugh Gentry Sitting in a focus group, a young Jordanian bewailed America's relationship with his region: "Since 1948, we have......
