Hummus is Arabic food and was appropriated by immigrant European and American Jews from Arabs. Hummus is garbanzo beans;my Uncle Hanna used dry garbanzo beans which he soaked all night, garlic, tahini, lemon, salt, pepper, sometimes cumin, olive oil, paprika, and parsley for garnish. It's definitely...

I received this comment from Maryam Ayyad's brother Sami. I wrote about Maryam in a post yesterday. May her memory be eternal and may God Bless her family in their time of sorrow. I am the brother of Maryam Ayyad whom she was murdered by the cowards Israeli Soldiers. I describe them as PIGS who kill...

20/07/2008 - 12:29 AMby Khalid Amayreh This week, Israel sank in an avalanche of national lethargy, hypocrisy and self-righteousness. Seeking to cope with Hezbullah’s success in getting Israel to release all Lebanese prisoners, dead and living, in exchange for the remains of two Israeli soldiers, ...

http://www.lompocrecord.com/articles/2008/07/12/opinion/071308b.txt Lompoc is too close to the town in which I grew up for me to overlook this boring, but pernicious panoply of Zionist bullshit. It's all here . . . "refugees as pawns," "Jews into the sea," "Jews property as spoils"; yeah all six per...

Members of the Farhat family in Ramallah in the 1920s. There are an estimated 5,000 Ramallahans living on the First Coast now. http://www.jacksonville.com/tu-online/stories/071308/lif_302784054.shtml Left is Yasmin Cadoura who sheltered the refugees who flooded Ramallah in the aftermath of the Zioni...

Jaffa: Land of oranges By Ghassan Kanafani When we had to leave Jaffa for Acre there was no sense of tragedy. It felt like an annual trip to spend the feast in another city. Our days in Acre did not seem unusual: perhaps, being young, I was even enjoying myself since the move exempted me from school...

By Remi Kanazi I love Adam Sandler. From Billy Madison to Happy Gilmore to the Chanukah Song, the predecessor of the Superbad generation has effortlessly conquered the domain of slapstick comedy and inappropriate jokes. But damn you Scuba Steve! If you’re going to propagate misinformation about th...

A Short Walk in Palestine - or is it Eretz Yisrael?By Rajah ShehadehJuly 05, 2008 We stopped to eat our picnic breakfast of Nabulsi goat's cheese and tomatoes - which we had to eat whole because I could not risk being stopped on the road carrying a Swiss army knife My walk in the Ramallah hills with...

By Khalil AlHajal - The Arab American NewsFriday, 07.04.2008, 09:35pm An outspoken, high-ranking Orthodox Church figure from Jerusalem, known for speaking out in defense of Palestinians and for Christian-Muslim unity, visited Detroit area homes, religious institutions and Arab American organizations...

Nizar Sakhnini to Al-Awda Discussion Group: AN APOLOGY DOES NOT ERASE THE CRIME COMMITTED IN 1948 I was born in Acre and my mother was born in Acre. My father was born in Sakhnin and my grandparents were born in Sakhnin. I own the lands that my father and my grandfather left for me in Sakhnin. While...