This past week saw the historic announcement of the appointment of the first Jewish ambassador from the Arab World, and Bahrain’s first female ambassador to the United States. King Hamad bin Isa Al Khalifa of Bahrain appointed Huda Azra Ibrahim …
Posted in Arab Jews, Bahrain, Politics | 14 CommentsIt is always like this… violence here triggers violence there. It is an endless chain of tit for tat and the civilians are the ones who always pay the lion’s share of loss and grief. I just read a very …
Posted in Arab Jews, Arabs, Awareness, Bad news, Events, Freedom of Speech, Israel, Middle East, Palestine, Palestine/Israel, Politics, War | 9 CommentsMany people are dying in this world everyday. There are many shootings and killings globally. Over one hundred people were died in Gaza in just a week. But who cares? No one was there when Gaza was exhausting massacres! No …
Posted in Arab Jews, Assholes, Current Events, Egypt, Israel, Middle East, Palestine, Palestine/Israel, Politics, Racism, Terrorism, USA, War | 34 CommentsI compiled a list of short videos by or about Arab Jews, which I thought may be of interest here. If you want to know more about Arab Jews through documentaries or media coverage I recommend you check out some …
Posted in Arab Jews, Religion, Videos | 10 CommentsTwo events coming up in Jerusalem: The Israeli-Palestinian Comedy Tour is returning for its 3rd Tour. While we don’t try to resolve all the issues between our two people, we do try to inject humor as a way to calm …
Posted in Arab Jews, Arabs, Creativity, Egypt, Freedom of Speech, Humor, Israel, Media, Palestine, Palestine/Israel, Satire | 6 CommentsI watched the HBO documentary “To Die In Jerusalem” believing the initial hype that it portrayed fairly the tragedy that involved one side of the conflict, an incident in which a Palestinian girl commits a suicide bombing and kills an …
Posted in Arab Jews, Awareness, Events, Film, Islam, Israel, Media, Palestine, Palestine/Israel, Terrorism, Videos | 14 CommentsImportant post to pass along: Donald Macintyre in The Independent seems astonished to discover that there are Jews in Bahrain whose first language is Arabic. Here he profiles Houda Ezra Nonoo, the only member of Bahrain’s 40-person Jewish community to …
Posted in Arab Jews, Arabs, Awareness, Bahrain, Gulf, Interfaith | 9 CommentsCradle of filth is a british Black Metal band that has a song called “Thank God for the Suffering” from their 2003 album, “Damnation and a day”. This song is very nice and I like it; but I’ve never been …
Posted in Arab Jews, Iran, Islam, Israel, Politics, Religion, War | 13 CommentsAlan Abbey, a longtime Israeli journalist who I met while writing at YnetNews.com ( avery popular online Israeli web site), and I have launched a new video web site called “The Rift” at www.TheRift.TV which will feature video discussions, debates …
Posted in Activism, Arab Americans, Arab Christians, Arab Jews, Arabs, Creativity, Culture, Freedom of Speech, Israel, Media, Middle East, Palestine, Palestine/Israel, Politics, Regional Issues, Taboos | 2 CommentsHere’s a video from Ramallah, Palestine filmed and posted during the Israeli-Palestinian Comedy Tour in Israel and Palestine June 6-18, 2007. This was shot at the Stars & Bucks Coffee shop above Manara Square in Ramallah, Palestine. [googlevideo]http://video.google.com/videoplay?docid=-2837006723301311573[/googlevideo] [Link] – …
Posted in Arab Jews, Fun Stuff, Humor, Israel, Middle East, Palestine, Palestine/Israel, Taboos, Videos | 7 Comments