Arabs
Dec 13 2010, Marco Villa

During the 2008 campaign, Obama’s Muslim heritage was played up in much of the Arab press. The fact that Obama had a Muslim father, and a Muslim side of the family, and that his middle name is Hussein was a cause for great hope in the Arab world. That..

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Marco Villa, Connecticut
The United States think it can win Arabs hearts and minds simply by managing a crude and vulgar propaganda channel - al-hurra - all the while dropping bombs and...
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Marco Villa, Connecticut
America is probably very close to openly practicing racial profiling against Arabs and Muslims. With the political and public animus at an all-time high against Arabs...
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Michael Kerjman, The Earth
I like this story. It brings a hope: “Kurds in northern Iraq are reaching out to a group of people with whom they believe share a historic ethnic connection, and...
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Incognito, Atlanta
As if Iran would bother to pay attention to what anyone tells it to do, let alone the United Nations- that hapless, useless waste of an organization- the UN’s...
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Arye, Jerusalem
The Israeli authorities are introducing a new scheme to make Arabic-language classes compulsory in state schools. The programme, which will start in 170 schools in...
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Marco Villa, Connecticut
A simple idea: Look at our own house. One of the things that most amazes me, in a bad way, is how people are often oblivious to their own misdeeds all the while...
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Israeli Fascism Rises. The late French Orientalist Maxime Rodinson once wrote about Zionism: Let us acknowledge that Zionism was born in the age of European...
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Arab citizens under attack. The party of Israeli foreign minister Avigdor Lieberman, ‘Israel Is Our Home’, is that of a racist and fascistic platform. A...
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America has a new Miss USA. And one with an interesting bio: She is the first Muslim-American and Arab-American to win the Miss USA pageant. Rima Fakih, a 24-year old...
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Marco Villa, Connecticut
Source: Charles Sprague Pearce (American, 1851–1914): The Arab Jeweler | Heilbrunn Timeline of Art History | New York - The Metropolitan Museum of Art Arabs are...
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If you are one of those people who has been so deluded by the Lame-street Media, as comrade Palin calls them, into believing that Obama is a Christian when, in fact, he...
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Marco Villa, Connecticut
Fourteen centuries ago Islam spoke to the woman’s sensuality and the desire for pleasure in great intimacy. A Prophet likened foreplay to a messenger: “Let...
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Marco Villa, Connecticut
I have recently started a new category of posts: The Middle East That You Do Not See. I explained the purpose last time for my first post in this regard: My favorite...
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Marco Villa, Connecticut
My favorite blog is the Angry Arab News Service and, as often, the author recently made an astute and enlightened observation: I also want to mention a waitress named...
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Marco Villa, Connecticut
Hell No! to answer the title question. Adalah is a Palestinian organization based in Israel that promotes the civil rights of the 1.3million Palestinian citizens of...
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Angry Arab Britain’s domestic security agency, Scotland Yard, had decided to make the internet a cause of concern in its fight against radical Muslim domestic...
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Michael Kerjman, The Earth
Internet era opened opportunities surely short-seen by its creators if the UK sir had been supposed (by some) to farther this far-beyond-mere-techniques revolution...
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Marco Villa, Connecticut
Much is known about Islamic Spain and Portugal, but very little about the history of Islamic conquest in Italy. Islamic influence in Italy is not to be discounted and...
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Michael Davison, Raanana
Ms. Gabrielle is a pretty savvy lady with first-hand knowledge and experiences that Pres. Obama lacks. The fact that Arabs and Muslims call her a traitor and a heretic...
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Marco Villa, Connecticut
Meet the Joe Isuzu of Lebanon: Zayn al-Athat (for those unfamiliar with American culture Isuzu was a lying spokesperson who appeared in Japanese cars ads). Zayn...
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Marco Villa, Connecticut
Are Muslims prone to conspiracy theories? Or at least Arabs? It is, of course, absurd and a racist Orientalist cliche to speak about Arabs and Muslims as a monolith as...
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Although never the scourge of Western criticism for human rights abuses (on the contrary, the French president Sarkozy has praised the Tunisian government and dismissed...
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Michael Davison, Raanana
Protesting for the Palestinians? Or are they using this as cover for a more sinister purpose—helping the drug lords in Brazil? = = = Brazil under fire for spending...
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Marco Villa, Connecticut
After the near terrorist hit over Christmas weekend, America’s Transportation Security Administration (TSA aka Thousands Standing Around) has decided that from...
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Retired Lt. General Thomas McInerney recently stated on Fox News that the path to improving security against terrorists in American lay not with heeding the warnings of...
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Global Report, Shimla
Exactly one year after the Israeli war on Gaza, aid convoys still find it hard to get through into the strip. The most recent convoy is one led by the British George...
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Marco Villa, Connecticut
The product of French racism and obtuse labor law. Racism is present in every society, and French racism against Arabs is ubiquitous; but the setting in which it...
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A new joint report by the United Nations Development Programme and the Arab League - issued ahead of the September 2010 international gathering to mark the tenth...
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Nahum Y, Gaza
On the face of it, the project sounds innocent enough: Since the early 1990s, the Israeli organization Elad has been rehabilitating the City of David, a once neglected...
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Marco Villa, Connecticut
It is important to remember what Bush and the neo-conservatives promised in Iraq. Not only would Iraq be a flourishing democracy, but it’ll serve as a democratic...
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It is not clear when the Palestinian Kaffiyeh became popular with fashionable Europeans and then crossed over into American via hipsters and Euro-imitators, but...
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Travelers often have a tendency for odd complaints. They will book a visit to, say, the Australian outback and then complain that it is too - oddly somehow -...
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If you needed any more proof that Israel is not only a nation with a racist framework, but with a racist culture, Israeli newspapers provide daily illustrations. The...
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You’d think that with all the problems facing Arabs and the impotency of Arab regimes in the face of Israeli aggression, that pan-Arab sentiment would be...
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One may expect that given the level of racism often directed towards Arabs and the malaise that inflicts the region, that the Arab people would be more united in a...
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Marco Villa, Connecticut
Beware the son-in-law Such are the unfortunate dramas of Arab political life. The region is devoid of any thoughtful and meaningful democratic institutions. Tiny...
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Brandon, Rochester
Iran’s closest allies in the Middle East are seizing on a deadlock in U.S.-backed peace efforts to try to sway a frustrated Arab world to their side. Radicals...
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Marco Villa, Connecticut
This post asks why the Arab world is so backwards, not Arabs. So for those looking for a racist post attacking Arabs, go somewhere else. While Arabs are, of course,...
made popular Nov 9 2009
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Nissim Dahan, Baltimore
My wife and I just returned home from a three-week visit to Israel. To be accurate, we also visited the Palestinian West Bank for a day; a profoundly memorable day at...
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Rahat:

A Bedouin man walks past a building in the village of Rahat, near the town of Beer sheva, southern Israel, Friday, Jan. 2, 2009. The Arab town of Rahat, population 45,000, is about 24 miles from Gaza and is situated on the outer perimeter reachable by...