Arabesque
Monday March 02, 2009
Dr. Zogby — Washington Watch
Israeli Paralysis Calls for Arab Action
Monday February 23, 2009
Some elections serve as clarifying moments in a nation’s history, others resolve little and serve only as a reflection of internal division. The former provide direction, the latter create paralysis.
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Lincoln: Metaphor for the Nation
Tuesday February 17, 2009
This week we commemorate the 200th anniversary of the birth of Abraham Lincoln, arguably the U.S.’s greatest and most complex President.
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Hopeful, But Not Optimistic
Monday February 09, 2009
George Mitchell has returned from his first foray to the Middle East. He will now study his initial findings, await the results of Israel’s election, and then revisit the region at month’s end.
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Healing Gaza’s Wounds
Monday February 02, 2009
Viewing the aftermath of the assault on Gaza, and listening to some of the commentary coming from Israel, the Arab world and from Israel’s supporters here in the U.S., can be disturbing on many levels. Most troubling is the failure of the apologists for both sides to even consider the human and social dimensions of the profound tragedy that just occurred. What flows from this is their inability to understand the war’s long-term consequences.
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Appointing Mitchell: Obama’s Signal to Peace
Monday January 26, 2009
In appointing former Senator George Mitchell as Special Envoy for the Middle East, President Barack Obama made clear his determination to pursue Arab-Israeli peace. Mitchell, an Arab American, was former Majority Leader of the U.S. Senate and widely recognized for his role in achieving peace in Northern Ireland. He has the stature the job demands.
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Bush: Maddening and Delusional to the End
Wednesday January 21, 2009
This will be my last article about George W. Bush. Actually, I had decided a few months back to never write about him again, and would be honoring that pledge, had he not delivered a perfectly delusional and maddening farewell address to the nation last Thursday night.
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American Jewish Responses to Gaza: Old and New
Friday January 02, 2009
It has long been of concern that the vigorous public debate that rages in Israel is not replicated either among American Jewish organizations or policy makers in Washington. I’ve noted before how, in the early part of the 2000 Presidential election, then-Vice Presidential candidate Joe Lieberman observed that “it is easier to debate an issue like the status Jerusalem in the Israeli Knesset than it is in the U.S. Senate.”
While the voices of the establishment American Jewish organizations have often dominated policy discussions on Middle East issues, below the surface, polls have shown that majorities of American Jews were decidedly pro-peace and uncomfortable with hard-line Israeli practices. But this tendency had no outlet, and so policy makers were left with the impression that to be pro-Israel meant to support the most hawkish Israeli position.
But no more.
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My Mother: A Lebanese American Woman's Life
Monday December 29, 2008
My mother Salemi (Celia Ann) Zogby died last week at the age of 92. The headline in the local Utica, New York newspaper, “Zogby Matriarch dies at 92”, told only part of her story. She had been, to the end, a leader of my extensive extended family. But she was also a leader in her community. An educator of two generations of Uticans, she shaped the lives of thousands of young people who passed through her classrooms.
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#NC lawmaker equates Islamic prayer w/ terror http://t.co/G9sp1NeLC1 @mostrolenk @aaiusa h/t @ozzyformayor
about 8 hours, 28 minutes ago.
Latest poll to be released Friday finds Americans are divided on continuing aid to #Egypt: http://t.co/1spZM1m9d2
about 11 hours, 9 minutes ago.
RT @MaiE_89: In the 1990’s, #Egypt had a 60% favorable rating among Americans, while today only 36% of US views the country positively via @AAIUSA
about 11 hours, 13 minutes ago.
Looking at Iran by James Zogby
Kahlil Gibran Awards Gala - April 16, 2013
From the desk of Dr. Zogby
Obama’s Lesson: “Look at the World Through Their Eyes”
President Obama got it just about perfect in his Jerusalem speech when he urged Israelis to see the world through the eyes of Palestinians. That portion of his remarks was so compelling it deserves to be quoted in full: Read More »
Viewpoint with James Zogby: Leaders for Democracy Fellowship Program Fellows, Bill Press
Air Date: 5/31/2012
Fellows from Syracuse University’s “Leaders for Democracy Fellowship Program (LDF); Bill Press, Host of the “Bill Press Show” and author of the new book, The Obama Hate Machine: The Lies, Distortions, and Personal Attacks on the President---and Who Is Behind Them. Read More »
Testimony before the U.S. Commission on Civil Rights (October 9, 2012)
The story of Arab Americans coming of age as an organized community is a classic American tale of immigrants seeking opportunity, benefiting from America’s freedoms, but also experiencing, at times, the dark side of exclusion and discrimination that has so often been a part of our nation’s history. Read More »
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