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Palestinian & Israeli leaders discuss Middle East peace on local TV show
Orland Park – Leaders from the Palestinian and Israeli community are the featured guests on the latest edition of TV Chicagoland on Comcast Cable TV Channel 19.
Guests Fadi Zanayed, President of the American Arab Anti-Discrimination Committee Chicago Chapter, and David Steiner, president of Friends of Peace Now, talk about ways to overcome the divide that separates the two important Chicagoland communities as events spiral out of control in the Middle East.
The show, hosted by journalist Ray Hanania, is broadcast every Friday night in 145 Chicagoland suburban communities on Channel 19 on Comcast Cable TV at 7 pm and 8:30 pm, the broadcast time depends on your suburb.
The show features an interview Zanayed and Steiner conducted on Hanania’s morning radio show “Radio Chicagoland” which is broadcast every Monday through Friday at 8 am on WJJG 1530 AM Radio, “The G.”
For more information on the TV or radio shows, visit www.TVChicagoland.com and also www.RadioChicagoland.com.
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Showing posts with label Palestine. Show all posts
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Monday, March 2, 2009
Wednesday, January 14, 2009
Arabs and Jews in Chicagoland encouraged to say something nice rather than the constant blame and hate
I have invited two guests on my show this morning, Fadi Zanayed, president of the Chicago Chapter of the American Arab Anti-Discrimination Committee, and David Steiner, president of the Chicago Chapter of the American Friends of Peace Now. Zanayed is Palestinian and Steiner is Israeli.
Over the past few weeks, it has been disheartening to watch and listen as some leaders in the Arab community and also in the mainstream Jewish American community, spew hatred and vicious rhetoric blaming others for the unspeakable crimes against women, children and innocent people in the Gaza Strip and in the Israeli towns near Gaza. Instead of leadership, some of these organizations have been denouncing fiercely the crimes committed against their people, but have either remained silent or have justified the carnage and immoral conduct committed against the others.
Both sides are committing crimes, and the worst crime is when the people on either side pretend their side is not committing a crime but scream and cry about the crimes committed only against their people.
That is complicity in the carnage and that needs to stop.
Today on my Radio Chicagoland program (WJJG 1530 AM Radio) I am asking callers, especially Arab and Jewish listeners, to call in and say something nice about the "other side." To show not that the other side is right but that their side has a remaining sense of morality in a conflict filled with a vicious war of words of "moral equivalency."
Innocent people are dying in a conflict that has raged on for more than 100 years. No one incident started anything. The facts so the claims on both sides are untrue. And when people lie or they close their eyes to the truth, they are also participating in the inhumanity that is taking place today.
Our government leaders are failing and are also playing politics on the spilled blood of innocent people. It's up to us, the people, to take the lead and say and do something to force them to do the right thing.
If you are not in the Chicagoland area to hear the show live on the radio this morning between 8 and 9:30 am, you can go to the web site and listen online, including on the live video streaming option,
-- Ray Hanania
http://www.radiochicagoland.com/
Over the past few weeks, it has been disheartening to watch and listen as some leaders in the Arab community and also in the mainstream Jewish American community, spew hatred and vicious rhetoric blaming others for the unspeakable crimes against women, children and innocent people in the Gaza Strip and in the Israeli towns near Gaza. Instead of leadership, some of these organizations have been denouncing fiercely the crimes committed against their people, but have either remained silent or have justified the carnage and immoral conduct committed against the others.
Both sides are committing crimes, and the worst crime is when the people on either side pretend their side is not committing a crime but scream and cry about the crimes committed only against their people.
That is complicity in the carnage and that needs to stop.
Today on my Radio Chicagoland program (WJJG 1530 AM Radio) I am asking callers, especially Arab and Jewish listeners, to call in and say something nice about the "other side." To show not that the other side is right but that their side has a remaining sense of morality in a conflict filled with a vicious war of words of "moral equivalency."
Innocent people are dying in a conflict that has raged on for more than 100 years. No one incident started anything. The facts so the claims on both sides are untrue. And when people lie or they close their eyes to the truth, they are also participating in the inhumanity that is taking place today.
Our government leaders are failing and are also playing politics on the spilled blood of innocent people. It's up to us, the people, to take the lead and say and do something to force them to do the right thing.
If you are not in the Chicagoland area to hear the show live on the radio this morning between 8 and 9:30 am, you can go to the web site and listen online, including on the live video streaming option,
-- Ray Hanania
http://www.radiochicagoland.com/
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Tuesday, September 23, 2008
What question would you ask McCain and Obama at this Friday's debate
I'll be asking radio show listeners this question, What would you ask John McCain and Barack Obama at this Friday's debate which focuses n foreign policy and international affairs ...
I'm working on a comic strip and still have not hit the mark yet on one I want to draw ... I hate doing anything. It has to have a strong point that is pertinent to what's happening now ...
The benefit for Nadia Hilou, the Palestinian Israeli member of the Israeli Knesset -- she is a member of the Labor Party and not one of the "Arab" Party slates in Israel -- is going along well ...we will have a BIG CROWD Oct. 8 at the Arts Center of Oak Park ... the info on the benefit which features a presentation on how she is working from within the system in Israel to make things better for children and families and also a performance by the world's first Christian Arab COmedy troup the "Infidels of Comedy" (including me, Nasry Malak and Maria Shehata) is available at www.InfidelsofComedy.com ... you can also buy tickets there online using your credit card. $40 for general admission (doors open at 6:30) and $15 for students with school IDs ...
Today's radio show features a soldier from Iraq and also attorney Mike Deutsch on the Mohamed Salah political dissident persecution case in the American Gulag, our system of misjustice in America.
-- Ray Hanania
www.RadioChicagoland.com
I'm working on a comic strip and still have not hit the mark yet on one I want to draw ... I hate doing anything. It has to have a strong point that is pertinent to what's happening now ...
The benefit for Nadia Hilou, the Palestinian Israeli member of the Israeli Knesset -- she is a member of the Labor Party and not one of the "Arab" Party slates in Israel -- is going along well ...we will have a BIG CROWD Oct. 8 at the Arts Center of Oak Park ... the info on the benefit which features a presentation on how she is working from within the system in Israel to make things better for children and families and also a performance by the world's first Christian Arab COmedy troup the "Infidels of Comedy" (including me, Nasry Malak and Maria Shehata) is available at www.InfidelsofComedy.com ... you can also buy tickets there online using your credit card. $40 for general admission (doors open at 6:30) and $15 for students with school IDs ...
Today's radio show features a soldier from Iraq and also attorney Mike Deutsch on the Mohamed Salah political dissident persecution case in the American Gulag, our system of misjustice in America.
-- Ray Hanania
www.RadioChicagoland.com
Friday, June 20, 2008
Performing standup comedy in Five Towns Long Island New York
I just spent a wonderful evening with a Jewish family for their Shabbat Services in their home with Aaron Freeman and Yisrael Campbell, two of the three other members of the Israeli Palestinian Comedy Tour -- Charley Warady was jet-lagged and only arrived from Israel a few hours before. We will be performing for a fundraiser for Shalva tomorrow, Saturday night, in Lawrence to help raise money for a Jewish ageny that supports children with disabilities.
The host family that invited us for dinner was unbelievable. Their hospitality was amazing. The serious discussions we had about Arab-Jewish relations, politics, family and more made for an inspirational evening.
I know a few Arabs from the extremist side might be upset wondering how I can spend an evening at the home of a Jewish family as tensions continue to escalate despite an Egyptian-brokered truce between Hamas and Israel, but I have to respond by saying that we should not focus our anger or politics on what is happening in the Middle East on people. We don't blame people. We don't blame religions. We look at the politics and address the politics, not in anger or hatred but with reason, principle and understanding.
Yes, people are suffering on both sides, some more than others, but suffering is everywhere nonetheless. It's not just one side and to blame an entire religion and a people for a conflict that has been raging for generations is just plain wrong.
We need to see past the hatred and past the anger and past the emotion if we plan to resolve this conflict. Yes, there will be suffering but I know many of the cautious and the extremists would be surprised to know how many on each side feel for those on the other side who suffer.
The answer to conflict is not more conflict. It is understanding. Benefit of the doubt. Controlling our emotions. Controlling our rhetoric and always applying principle to others that we would hope would also be applied to ourselves.
Friday night I saw people. Good people. And I wish that Palestinians and Israelis will have the experience of seeing real people face-to-face instead of being blinded by only seeing stereotypes.
Ray Hanania
http://www.themediaoasis.com/
The host family that invited us for dinner was unbelievable. Their hospitality was amazing. The serious discussions we had about Arab-Jewish relations, politics, family and more made for an inspirational evening.
I know a few Arabs from the extremist side might be upset wondering how I can spend an evening at the home of a Jewish family as tensions continue to escalate despite an Egyptian-brokered truce between Hamas and Israel, but I have to respond by saying that we should not focus our anger or politics on what is happening in the Middle East on people. We don't blame people. We don't blame religions. We look at the politics and address the politics, not in anger or hatred but with reason, principle and understanding.
Yes, people are suffering on both sides, some more than others, but suffering is everywhere nonetheless. It's not just one side and to blame an entire religion and a people for a conflict that has been raging for generations is just plain wrong.
We need to see past the hatred and past the anger and past the emotion if we plan to resolve this conflict. Yes, there will be suffering but I know many of the cautious and the extremists would be surprised to know how many on each side feel for those on the other side who suffer.
The answer to conflict is not more conflict. It is understanding. Benefit of the doubt. Controlling our emotions. Controlling our rhetoric and always applying principle to others that we would hope would also be applied to ourselves.
Friday night I saw people. Good people. And I wish that Palestinians and Israelis will have the experience of seeing real people face-to-face instead of being blinded by only seeing stereotypes.
Ray Hanania
http://www.themediaoasis.com/
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