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March 9, 2018 |
Prophet Joseph: “Chain Migration” and Family Reunification!
Trump’s four pillars immigration reform is centered on bringing an end to an important and humane feature of current US immigration policies, family reunification. The skeleton of the plan was released during the President’s State of the Union Address, but it is still lacking details. The White House “four pillars” of immigration reform include: “a…
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December 19, 2017 |
The U.S. Veto and Jerusalem’s Legal Status, the Occupied Capital of Palestine!
The U.S. vetoed yet another U.N. Security Council to shield Israel from any consequences for the continued occupation and annexation of Jerusalem and wholesale violations of international law. Trump’s recent recognition and decision to transfer the U.S. embassy to Jerusalem is undertaken to force an acceptance of Israel’s vision of itself and the city, a…
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December 19, 2017 |
Trump Wagging the Dog on Jerusalem: Shifting the Narrative, Rewarding Donors and Planning for Re-election!
Trump’s policy grenade, the recognition of Jerusalem as the capital of Israel and the decision to transfer the U.S. embassy to the occupied city, should be added to America’s three decades or longer disaster called “Middle East peace process”. Observers of U.S.’s “Middle East” policy understand that it has been shaped by two prong interests:…
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November 25, 2017 | Daily Sabah
Saudi Arabia and Financing Trump’s Job Creation Agenda!
The recent developments in Saudi Arabia are alarming and point, on the one hand, to a serious break in the consensus of the ruling family and, on the other, to the rapid movement towards another major regional war. A succession crisis in the royal family was only a matter of time after death or old…
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November 2, 2017 |
The Balfour Declaration: The UK Government Must Apologize to the Palestinians!
On the eve of the 100th anniversary of Balfour Declaration, Palestinians under occupation and in the diaspora are due an unequivocal apology from the British government. However, on October 29, 2017, the current Tory Government Foreign Secretary Boris Johnson struck in The Telegraph a celebratory note calling the Balfour Declaration an “incontestable moral goal: to…
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October 31, 2017 |
Disenfranchising the Palestinians
Imperial Britain Gave Palestine to the Zionists When It Was Still Part of the Ottoman Empire. On Nov. 2, 2017, Palestinians mark the hundred-year anniversary of the Balfour Declaration, a letter from British foreign secretary Lord Arthur James Balfour to Lord Walter Rothschild that committed Britain to the establishment of a Jewish homeland in Palestine….
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October 17, 2017 |
Envisioning an Islamic Economic Union!
What are the possibilities of an Islamic Economic Union that can harness the strength and market competitive advantage of a diverse set of countries that are endowed with enormous resources and highly talented populations? The basis for forming such a market is present and the conditions are optimal to achieve it in a period of…
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September 5, 2017 |
When Racism Disrupts the “Normal” and “Peaceful” America!
America’s entanglement with race is the present absent moral river steadily flowing underneath the nation’s feet, but no one is ready to dig below the surface until it bursts in the open to disrupt the “normal” and otherwise “peaceful” daily life routines. “Normal” means that race is not a topic of conversation or a factor…
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August 3, 2017 |
Turkey’s Failed Coup and Post-Colonial Custodianship!
The 2016 failed military coup attempt in Turkey is paradigmatic of the post-colonial world system whereby internal political processes are structured to maintain and reproduce external interventions and dependencies. Clearly, the attempted coup in Turkey was not the first, as the short history of the Turkish Republic aptly demonstrates. Yet, the more critical question to…
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June 23, 2017 |
The Ottomans and the Loss of Jerusalem
As we commemorate the anniversary of WWI and the Balfour Declaration, it is important to reflect on Ottoman history and their relationship to Jerusalem. The Ottomans represented the last cohesive Islamic political system to exercise unfettered governance over Jerusalem, and it was during their collapse that Palestine became occupied first by the British and then…
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