Authorized, decisive international intervention in Libya is urgent. At the start of the Libyan uprising, demonstrators armed with freedom symbols faced soldiers armed with bullets. By cruelly suppressing its society, the Libyan regime has forfeited its legitimate sovereignty. As diplomats debate ending Gaddahfi’s rule , he is left free to murder the people demanding...
Ghassan Michel Rubeiz
Rubeiz: As Arab regimes are shaken allies and foes ponder the future
–The Arab political coma is over. The spirit of Tunisia is in the Arab psyche. The knees of Arab despots are shaking in North Africa, West Asia and the Gulf states. It is not only Arabs that are reviewing their priorities and thinking of the future. Israel, having for too long...
Rubeiz: The human element
East Meredith NY–During a historical visit to Jerusalem in 1979, late President Anwar Sadat of Egypt proclaimed that the Arab-Israeli conflict is largely psychological. Inherited notions about history and deeply felt convictions about the injustices are so strong that when an Arab-American meets a Jewish-American socially they tend to avoid politics at all cost....
Rubeiz: Did Arabs contribute to saving lives during the Holocaust?
East Meredith NY–The current hard-line legislation considered by Israeli lawmakers to ensure “loyalty” of Arab citizens reflects tensions and mistrust on both sides of the Arab-Israeli divide. The climate is leading many to believe that maintaining equality between Arab and Jewish citizens of Israel is unsafe or unnatural. But this conclusion ignores the past....
Rubeiz: Middle East reconciliation in the Diaspora
Palm Beach Gardens FL–In trying to save Israel and save Palestine, competing interest groups in Washington are “saving” no more than the conflict itself. The efforts of the Jewish, Arab and Muslim communities in America should be harnessed for the resolution of the Arab Israeli conflict. So far, the Jews advocate for Israel and...
Rubeiz: Europe – the missing key to Middle East peace
Palm Beach Gardens FL–The latest American Middle East peace initiative has been launched in the absence of change in the attitudes of the protagonists or in the political landscape. Is America gambling with a new round of dead-end diplomacy by packaging old wine in new bottles? The United States urgently needs Europe if it...
Rubeiz: Israel’s security lies in regional peace
Palm Beach Gardens FL – On March 22 Israel’s Prime Minister Netanyahu defiantly declared to the world that: “there will be no freeze on construction in Jerusalem. Everyone knows it.” An enduring occupation requires a high level of arrogance and a poker face in rationalization of injustice. The international community is well aware that...
Rubeiz: Lebanon not ready for radical reform
Palm Beach Gardens FL–In attempting to reform their state, the Lebanese fear the unraveling of their nation. President Obama was well briefed on Lebanon’s fragile, “national unity” government, when he received the Lebanese President Michel Suleiman on December 14. In private, the US president demanded from Suleiman to control Hezbollah’s growing military power. In...
Ghassan Rubeiz: Banning minarets in Switzerland
Palm Beach Gardens FL–The freedom to express symbols in the place of worship is an important part of religious rights guaranteed by all democratic societies. Now, Switzerland has one thing in common with Saudi Arabia. The Swiss referendum vote to ban erection of minarets is reminiscent of Saudi Arabia’s banning of church buildings. The...
Ghassan Rubeiz: Profiling in America can only backfire
The September 11, 2001, events shocked Arab and Muslim Americans, and the recent tragedy at Fort Hood, Texas, in which Major Nidal Hasan killed 13 people and wounded 30, heightened their identification with the United States. There are signs that Hasan’s acts of terror caused Americans of Middle Eastern and Muslim origin to want...
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