Can Jews and Arabs come together as committed to peace as they can gather separately in anger and emotion for revenge?

It's too easy to point a finger at each other and blame each other, saying the other started it. But, is it really that difficult to say that this...

Americans are the most educated people in the world but the least educated in the world. They can't tell the difference between a Palestinian and a Pakistani, and an Iranian and an Indian.

That might explain why the West is so outraged that an Iraqi, who is a journalist, threw...

Muntandar al-Zaidi is a hero for a lot of reasons. First, he didn't resort to violence in the true sense of the Middle East conflict to express himself. Instead, he tapped a deep-rooted Arab cultural expression of disdain to show his objection and protest of President Bush's failed policies in...

President-elect Barack Obama has a real opportunity to help Palestinians and Israelis achieve a real peace, and then begin a real war on terrorism that can succeed.

The conflict between Israel and Palestine has raged for 60 years, directly and indirectly fueling 90 percent of the conflicts in the region....

Guilt by association is wrong. And arrogance by disassociation and hypocrisy is just as wrong.

It's one thing for the residents of Illinois to sit back and feel discouraged by the tragic events of the past 24 hours, watching as U.S. Attorney Patrick Fitzgerald and FBI Director Robert Grant outlined...

Ever since Sept. 11, 2001, Arabs, Muslims and anyone who looks Middle Eastern have been the targets of animosity from mainstream Americans who have misdirected their anger about the terrorist attacks against innocent people.

And ever since terrorists from a small extremist corner of the Islamic world destroyed the World...

Like all Arab Americans, I was disturbed when Barack Obama selected U.S. Senator Joseph Biden as his running mate.

Biden's appointment was clearly intended as a signal to put Jewish American and pro-Israel voters at ease. It was designed to counter the concerns raised by the hatemongering campaign against Obama...

Despite the challenges of an American system that discourages their involvement, Arab Americans are involved in the political elections this week on all levels, as candidates, as voters and as controversies.

Various sources estimate that there are between 3.5 and 4.5 million Arabs in America, with Christians a slight majority...

The Bush administration will start a war for oil. And one week before a presidential election, with his Republican party's candidate waning in the polls, the Bush Administration will also start a war for politics.

That's exactly what took place this weekend when, in separate incidents, American military forces struck...

It has been nearly a decade since residents of Palos Heights sullied their community by rising in protest against their neighbors-- who happened to be Muslim-- who sought to open a Mosque where they could observe their religion.

The move pushed nearly 2,000 people to sign a petition protesting the...

The Bush administration moved to prevent Jeff Mazon from making a defense that would most certainly shift the blame from charges he took a bribe in the management of a war-related fuel contract to the more important questionable track record of his former employer, Halliburton.

In a motion made to...

Outgoing Israeli Prime Minister Ehud Olmert had tough words to describe the militant actions of Israeli settlers living on occupied lands in the West Bank as he prepares to step down from office.

Olmert, who is resigning his post in the face of a criminal probe into his administration, criticized...

Headlines in newspapers across the Arab and Islamic World proclaimed that the bombing of the Marriott Hotel in Islamabad was a "warning" to Pakistan's President Asif Ali Zardari to end cooperation with the United States.

What was not heard, though, were denunciations of the bombing which took the lives of...

Clearly Mayor Daley cares about the well-being of Chicago. But does he care enough?

Daley is always out there after a Chicago child is killed by a street gang member. The mayor is always there to react. He gives the emotional speech. He yells his anger into the media microphones...

Presumptive Republican party presidential candidate John McCain could determine who would be his vice president, but apparently, he has no control over who will be making the memorable keynote address at his convention coronation.

The theme of the GOP Convention "Country First" is in fact the theme of this uninvited...

They say politics should never be personal, even though we know it often is.

But last week, one politician showed he can rise above the norm and do what's right.

During a meeting of the Illinois Delegation at the Democratic National Convention, Congressman Jesse L. Jackson Jr. used his turn...

There is no doubt that one of the main factors behind presumptive Democratic Presidential nominee Barack Obama's choice of US Senator Joe Biden to be his vice presidential running mate is Biden's unwavering and rock solid support of Israel, support that has come at the expense of genuine peace.

Biden...

Beleaguered Israeli Prime Ehud Olmert proposed a ridiculous plan to end the conflict as his term in office winds down to an inglorious end.

Although his "peace plan" has aspects of good ideas, it is most significant not for what it offers, but for what it lacks.

Hoping to put...

The campaign of Barack Obama, who many Americans think is Muslim, took on a volunteer Muslim lawyer, Mazen Asbahi, to help the presumptive Democratic Presidential nominee improve his election support among Muslim American voters.

It's not that Muslims don't support Obama. Let's face it, a guy whom most Americans...

Besieged Israeli Prime Minister Ehud Olmert announced he will not seek re-election in the face of a growing wave of criminal investigations that have targeted his government conduct.

Olmert is expected to remain in office until elections are held later this year, but his announcement has put in question...