Alex ODEH WAS born in 1944 in British Mandate Palestine to a Christian family in the West Bank village of Jifna, near Ramallah, just four years before the founding of Israel. He immigrated in 1972 to the United States, where he became a spokesperson for the Arab American community, challenging negative portrayals of Middle Easterners and Muslims, which were back then at least as commonplace as they are today. Odeh, the Southern California regional director at the Arab-American Anti-Discrimination Committee, or ADC, was known for his efforts to build bridges between Jews and Arabs, but his outreach was rejected by nationalist…

Chapitre : Les Enfants sont aussi des Citoyens  Nous ne pouvons réussir que tous ensemble. La question  n'est pas : "Quelqu'un  a-t-il une meilleure idée ?"mais :"Pouvons-nous  tous faire mieux ?"  Abraham Lincoln Au printemps 1995, Chelsea et moi avons fait un voyage en Asie du Sud. En tant que mère d'une adolescente, je me rendais compte de la chance que j'avais : en dépit de ses quinze, ma fille voulait bien passer dix jours en ma compagnie ! Nous sommes allées à l'orphelinat de mère Teresa, à New Delhi, et avons bavardé avec des jeunes femmes qui suivainet des…

 Once again, the United States risks being drawn into an unnecessary war in the Middle East. Donald Trump’s impulsive and reckless escalation of conflict with Iran, most recently his decision to order the killing of Qassem Soleimani, illustrates the danger of electing the most corrupt and unqualified president in our nation’s history—a man who has little idea of what it means to put the nation’s interests ahead of his own. But it is also the consequence of an approach to foreign policy that relies on the U.S. military to achieve the impossible, instead of doing the hard work of statecraft.…

THE TRUMP ADMINISTRATION has been a dream come true for hawks in Washington — particularly those harboring fantasies of vengeance and retribution against Iran. Under Trump, the U.S. unilaterally pulled out of the nuclear deal signed by President Barack Obama and has begun a “maximum pressure” policy of sanctions and political isolation targeting Iran. The confrontation that began escalating after the U.S. withdrawal from the nuclear accord was punctuated last month by the assassination of Iranian Gen. Qassim Suleimani in a drone strike — an attack that was publicly claimed by the United States. It’s unclear where all this is headed, but for many Trump…

Former Barack Obama Defense Secretary Chuck Hagel appeared on CNN to argue that the decision to kill a top Iranian commander was short-sighted and threatens destabilizing the region. Hagel, a former Republican senator for Nebraska, told Wolf Blitzer on a Sunday edition of The Situation Room that President Donald Trump’s administration should be thinking longer term. “You got to go back to what is your larger strategic interest, what do you want to accomplish? That’s a short term kill, one man is down and there will be others to fill in. The bigger point, what do you want to accomplish in Iraq and in the Middle East?” he said about the…