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Pathbreakers of Arab America—James Zogby

This is the forty-seventh of Arab America’s series on American pathbreakers of Arab descent. The series includes personalities from entertainment, business, sports, science, academia, journalism, and politics, among other areas. Our forty-seventh pathbreaker is James Zogby, Lebanese Arab American, and co-founder in 1985 with his brother, John, of the Arab American Institute, a Washington, D.C.-based political and policy research firm. Contributing writer, John Mason depicts Zogby as a major player in U.S. domestic politics, representing the Arab American perspective, and a preeminent rooter for Palestinian aspirations.

U.S. Needs More Focus on its Most Important M.E. Allies—Israel and Saudi Arabia—but not at the expense of the Palestinians

During a recent trip to the M.E. by NY Times columnist Thomas Friedman, he avers that the country exhibits “the threat to Israel’s original aspiration to be both a Jewish state and a democratic one is now so profound, posed by an extremist government trying to crush the independence of Israel’s Supreme Court.” In Saudi Arabia, he sees “the societal transformations being imposed from the top down by the iron-fisted Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman (M.B.S.)…” as profound. John Mason, contributing writer, assesses the NYTimes report in the context of occupied Palestinians and how they might fare in an Israeli-Saudi détente.

Biden goes Beyond Trump’s Commitment in Defending some Saudi and Gulf Countries

Disturbingly, President Biden is following ex-president Trump’s path. First, he is overlooking MBS’ part in the brutal murder of Washington Post columnist Jamal Khashoggi. Second, he intends to commit American soldiers’ lives to defend Gulf dictatorships. Contributing writer, John Mason, reports on these gross inconsistencies in U.S. policy towards Saudi Arabia and the Region.

Obama Makes Last-Minute Move to Get Detainees Out of Gitmo

By Molly O’Toole Foreign Policy Every minute brings Donald Trump closer to putting his hand on the Lincoln Bible, and a group of 41 men closer to a lifetime of internment at the U.S. military detention center in Guantánamo Bay, Cuba. But lawyers and Obama administration officials are working down to the wire to get … Continued

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