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Protest Jordan's anti-Palestinian measures

by Michael Kosowsky | 05/20/2012

The Hashemite Kingdom of Jordan recently announced that it has decided to strip several Palestinian Authority and Palestinian Liberation Organization leaders of their Jordanian citizenship. This decision is the latest incarnation of an ongoing trend of anti-Palestinian reforms in which the Jordanian government has, seemingly without cause, revoked the Jordanian citizenship of thousands of Palestinian Arabs, many of whom have been living in Jordan for generations.

Embrace concern for persecuted Christians

by Michael Kosowsky | 03/19/2012

The term "Middle East" generally conjures up images of the war in Iraq, the Arab-Israeli conflict, the Iranian nuclear threat and the recent Arab Spring. Rarely does one think of Christianity as a minority religion that has been persecuted, its holy sites vandalized and its worshippers abused and murdered throughout the Middle East. Michael Oren, the United States ambassador to Israel, recently wrote an article in the Wall Street Journal, in which he stated that the Middle East was 20 percent Christian at the start of the previous century and just 5 percent Christian today. Two hundred thousand Coptic Christians were forced to flee their homes in Egypt within the past year. The Coptic Christians have lived in Egypt since the first century of the Common Era and were the dominant religion in Egypt until the emergence of Islam.

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