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Hanania columns on Biden’s border plan, Israel’s PAC influence on Congress, and Trump’s conviction

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Award winning former Chicago City Hall political reporter and now columnist writes seven columns each week on a wide range of topics from Chicagoland, Illinois and American politics, slice-of-life observations, humor to analysis of developments in the Middle East.

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Congress members who blindly support Israel’s government are only fueling continued violence in the Israel-Palestine conflict which is driven by the extremism of both Hamas & Israel’s government.

By Ray Hanania

FREE/Middle East politics/ Thursday June 6, 2024

Although many American politicians and the mainstream American news media argue Hamas violence is the greatest threat to Middle East peace, they are not being entirely honest nor incomplete.

The threat to Middle East Peace is one that comes from “extremists” on all sides, from Hamas and from Israel’s government which provokes Hamas and then exploits Hamas violence as justification to engage in extremist violence of their own.

The media is most complicit because they play down the extremism of Israel’s government, and ignore important facts that might cast Israel’s government in a negative light, such as reports that Israel’s unprepared response to the Oct. 7, 2023 Hamas violence may have been driven by anger more than military strategy, resulting in the Israel Defense Forces (IDF) killing not only the militants but also many of the Israelis who attended the targeted festival.

Since then, Israel’s government has engaged in an unrestrained wave of revenge violence, claiming to target Hamas fighters but in reality ignoring a government’s responsibility to protect innocent civilians. Of nearly 40,000 Palestinians killed, and tens of thousands seriously injured, nearly one-third of those killed by Israel’s military response have been women and children.

Since then, Israel has acted with irresponsible and violent impunity, blaming the civilian massacres on Hamas using them as “human shields.”

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Biden softening opposition to border crackdown to get votes

Desperate for votes, President Joe Biden is quickly changing his approach to some key issues including Immigration that he battled with against former President Donald Trump. Biden needs more votes.

By Ray Hanania

PAID/politics immigration/Monday June 3, 2024

You didn’t have to do a poll to know that most Americans wanted the Federal Government to crack down on the unrestricted river of illegal aliens who were entering this country, mainly from the Southern border with Mexico but also through Hawaii from Asia.

But the issue of Immigration quickly was turned into a partisan political football by the news media during the first term of former President Donald Trump.

I say “first term” because there is a very good chance, despite his political conviction, that he will be re-elected in November.

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Trump’s political conviction in a skewered upsidedown America

The politically motivated conviction of former President Donald Trump will only add to the polarization of America & bring us closer to a greater national tragedy. All to save Biden, a weak president.

By Ray Hanania

PAID/Politics/Thursday May 30, 2024

(You can view all of Ray Hanania political analysis and slice-of-life columns here at www.Hanania.com.)

A jury in one of America’s most liberal states, New York, has convicted Donald Trump of 34 charges of paying to silence a prostitute, pornographic stripper who alleged she had an affair with him just before his first election.

You knew he would be convicted of something because they threw everything plus the kitchen sink at Trump, a Republican former President whose biggest problem has always been his arrogance and inability to control his blather.

There was no doubt that Trump would be convicted. The Democrats and the biased mainstream media has been after him since forever. And they would do anything to block him from defeating President Joe Biden, including throwing trumped up charges in the hopes of preventing him from challenging Biden in the upcoming presidential election.

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Ray Hanania is an award-winning opinion 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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