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Hanania’s columns: Dune review, Pekau’s disrepect in Orland, #AbandonBiden and Best Middle East Bakeries

By Ray Hanania

My new syndicated column at www.Hanania.com or www.RayHanania.com has touched on a lot of topics this past week. I write four to six columns every week now, driven by what provokes my mind and I share them through syndication. 

You can easily subscribe to the columns for Free and also Paid if you enjoy them. No pressure just a hope you will support great opinion writing.

This week’s columns include an assortment of topics, not just politics.

Of course I look at the buffoonery of Orland Park’s disrespectful and vindictive Mayor Keith Pekau. Pekau is the controversial politician whose vicious personal attacks just keep on giving.

Some of Ray Hanania's syndicated columns from the week of Feb. 24, 2024. Subscribe at www.RayHanania.com
Some of Ray Hanania’s syndicated columns from the week of Feb. 24, 2024. Subscribe at www.RayHanania.com

 

Recently, Pekau refused to respond to an Open Meetings Act letter request from the Illinois Attorney General, Kwame Raoul. Raoul was forced to send a second letter demanding information about his expelling an entire audience from the Feb. 5, 2024 village board meeting because he didn’t like some of the comments of people in the audience.

 

The question: is Kwame Raoul a pencil pushing bureaucrat bullied by political bullies, or a champion of the Rule of Law and the Open Meetings Act? Pekau snubbed his nose at Raoul refusing to respond to a OMA complaint and Raoul was forced to write a letter begging for Pekau to respond.

Click here to read that column.

And, I look at another failed leader, President Joe Biden. His weak leadership is what encouraged dictator Vladimir Putin to invade Ukraine, and terrorist Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu to massacre more than 30,000 Palestinians in response to a terrorist attack on Oct. 7. Terrorism from both Netanyahu and Hamas has dominated the Middle East for several decades but Netanyahu does better propaganda and makes it look like he’s the victim, when he is not.

Biden’s failure to stop Israel’s carnage in Gaza and the destruction of mosques, Christian churches, schools, hospitals, homes and businesses — razing entire villages and cities — has provoked Arab American voters who gave him his edge over Donald Trump in 2020, to abandon him. It’s call the #AbandonBiden movement and it undermined Biden’s lead over Trump in Michigan and it will undermine Biden in several other “swing states” where he barely defeated the Republican president who is plagued by pettiness and a lack of focus on his fundamental policies.

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Not everything is politics.

I also write in response to many emails that I get asking me what are the best Middle Eastern and Arab restaurants and bakeries. (My mother is from Bethlehem — the real Bethlehem where Jesus was born — and my father is from Jerusalem, which is under occupation and violent government siege. No one knows Middle East or Mediterranean food better than me. I grew up with it.) You can even search my Arab food recipes that I have posted on Youtube.

Click here for the recipe for stuffed grapeleaves.

Click here to explore more on Google including on my Tiktok account.

There are many Middle Eastern bakeries in the southwest suburbs that make great Arabian foods that you can purchase in them m on your way to work. Here are my three favorite.

Click here to read that column.

And, I do movie reviews and entertainment columns, reviewing this week the remake of the 1984 classic Dune, remade in two parts Dune 1 in 2021 and Dune 2 just released.

I hate remakes that are based more on computer generated graphics rather than on great storylines that fuel the moviegoer’s imagination. The Dune remakes are failures in that sense. The CGI is great. But the storylines are so twisted and distorted they are poorer than the original storyline from 1984.

Click here to read that column.

I hope you visit my new Syndicated Columns page on Politics, government, entertainment, humor, veterans issues, senior issues, food and slice of life topics.

Go to www.RayHanania.com.

Thank you

RAY HANANIA

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Ray Hanania is an award-winning columnist, author & former Chicago City Hall reporter (1977-1992). A veteran who served during the Vietnam War and the recipient of four SPJ Peter Lisagor Awards for column writing, Hanania writes weekly opinion columns on mainstream American & Chicagoland topics for the Southwest News-Herald, Des Plaines Valley News, the Regional News, The Reporter Newspapers, and Suburban Chicagoland.  

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Hanania also writes about Middle East issues for the Arab News, and The Arab Daily News criticizing government policies in the Israeli-Palestinian conflict.

Hanania was named "Best Ethnic American Columnist" by the New America Media in November 2007, and is the 2009 recipient of the SPJ National Sigma Delta Chi Award for column writing.

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