1967 Middle East War was a Turning Point for Israel

The pro-Israeli groups failed to convince Kennedy to give Israel unconditional support. Kennedy understood Israel’s ambition to dominate the region. He, on the other hand, wanted to strike a balance by keeping a good relationship with the Arab states. He realized, now known from the released archive documents, to help many underdevelopment countries including those of the Middle East was the most effective way confronting Communism. After the Cuban Missile Crisis in 1962, President Kennedy, realizing the existential threats posed by a nuclear confrontation,  wanted to cut down America’s own military spending and start a diplomatic relationship with the Soviet Union, China, and Cuba to end the Cold War soon. All these threatened the military-industrial-complex and its close allies, the pro-Israeli groups, and big businesses. Kennedy was the last US president to refuse to provide Israel with vast military aid it was urging America to provide; after his assassination “the faucet was fully open,” said Ilan Pappe. Oliver Stone had a ground to allude to an Israeli connection to the President’s murder in his film JFK. [note]Ilan Pappe, The Ten Myths about Israel, Verso, London, 2017, p. 54 (Kennedy’s refusal to massive aid to Israel and his assassination link.)[/note]

The Vietnam War could have been avoided

Initially, Ho Chi Minh was very impressed with the leaders like Wilson and FDR and their pro-people, anti-colonial agenda, then the way America completed the Marshall Plan in rebuilding Europe and Japan after the devastation of the World War II, and most of all the way America gave independence to the Philippines in 1946. In declaring independence of Vietnam from the French colonial rule in 1945 Ho used the American Declaration of Independence verbatim. [note]Kinzer, The Brothers, p.177-179[/note]

About the Author

The author is a writer, speaker, and activist. Her writings have been published in many newspapers, online magazines and blog sites in the Middle East, South Asia and some in America, among these are:  The Huffington Post, The Minneapolis Star Tribune, St. Paul Dispatch, Dallas Morning News, etc.. Besides, her articles also got published in India Abroad, The Statesman (India), Gulf Daily News, Islamic Horizons, The American Muslim, The Muslim Observer, Al-Ahram (Egypt), and Daily News Egypt, The Jordan Times, The New Nation, The Daily Star, The Independent (Bangladesh), NY Daily News (India), The Noia Diganta, etc. among others.

She focuses on three main areas:

1) She writes about de-radicalization, conflict resolution, national integration, power-sharing and democratic governance in Muslim-majority societies to promote good governance.

2) She also promotes constructive engagements and good relations between the West and the Muslim world.

3) She advocates a total reform in the Muslim world. She vehemently denounces radicalism and terrorism, and opposes dogmatism and fanaticism, and promotes liberal, democratic and universal values in Islam in the Muslim world. Currently, she is the Executive Director of two organizations: Muslims for Peace, Justice, and Progress (www.MPJP.org),  and  Women for Good Governance (WGG), in the process of incorporation.

She is a human rights activist. She also promotes good governance.

Her intensive study of the Quran for the last 20 years has enabled her to produce the site: www.consultquran.com in which she lays down the core universal principles of the scripture, the core of the Book, that promotes peaceful coexistence, tolerance,  finding commonality in the diversity of humanity, compassion, and justice.