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This week’s Ray Hanania Podcast reviews the past week’s events, issues and my recent columns in the Regional News newspaper, The Reporter and Southwest News-Herald on Jussie Smollett; my columns in the @ArabNews on the Oscar win by #RamiMalek, and at @MiddleEastMnt Middle East Monitor on the United Nations Human Rights Commission report condemning Israel’s war crimes in the Gaza Strip. I write for several newspapers each week and I am now doing a separate podcast to showcase the issues I am writing on each week. The podcasts are archived at www.TheArabStreet.org.

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