Jamil M. Shawwa

About Jamil M. Shawwa


Jamil Shawwa is an American citizen from the United States of America. He lives in the Washington DC Metro area. He was born in Beirut Lebanon and originally from Gaza. He graduated from Cairo University Law School and got his Master of Laws degree from the University of Iowa, College of law. Jamil has been a blogger and an activist on political issues for over seven years.

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The Outsourcing of The US National Security; The Verizon Files

Let us begin the journey from where it all started-as we found out today, with an employee of the federal government contractor firm Booz Allen Hamilton saying today that , “I can’t in good conscience allow the US government to destroy privacy”; the Verizon records story leaker, Edward Snowden, told the Guardian-which first broke the story few days ago.

The Democratization of The Turkish Erdogan

Erdogan wants to be another Ataturk; a political Islamic version of the secular leader of Turkey that ended the Ottoman Empire in the first quarter of the last century. Erdogan has accomplices in this quest, majority of the Turkish people with nostalgia for a stronger Turkey, a regional power Turkey and not a Turkey that has been for decades begging the Europeans to accept it in their EU.

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A Hired Gun; Hizbollah in Syria

Hizbollah chief in a televised address on May 25 confirmed the Lebanese Shiite militia party fighting in Syria on AlAssad’s side. The address of Nasrallah is the last nail in the coffin of the Lebanese State.

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Ultra Orthodox and Political Salafis in The Middle East

The ultra orthodox in Israel did not claim religion when citing men’s only right to pray wearing certain costumes; they claimed that its Custom which is seriously important among certain ultra religious people in Israel.

An Israeli Down Payment and A Syrian Payoff

Syria's ruling dictatorship that kills its people everyday, does not know anything about international law to claim international law violations after the multiple Israeli raids on establishments that "host" Iranian advanced missiles that could have been outbound and En route to a militia in Lebanon called Hizbollah.

Obama Inc.

In business, experts say, that you must brag about your successes, you must share your ideas, you must be out there and let people know how good you are, or not, but be there, expand and try and see how it goes. Do not be shy or modest, it does not help.

Boston, Massachusetts; Freedom Cries

The terror attack on Boston today in the midst of the State celebration of Patriot day and in the midst of one of the most important and popular Marathons in the country raises the usual question; how and not why.

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Bargaining Chips; Palestinian Prisoners and Israeli Hostages

The issue of Palestinian security prisoners from the West Bank and Gaza, that Israel considers committed crimes or in the process of committing crimes against the State is very complicated.

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Obama’s Trip to the Middle East

President Obama’s trip to the Middle East started when it ended, with Bibi Netanyahu's call to the Turkish prime minister, Erdogan, to apologize for Turkish deaths during a Turkish debacle statement in attempting to play politics by sending a ship to Gaza.

The Eventual Fall From “grace” of the Muslim Brotherhood

Egypt’s second revolution is underway; this time is not going to be peaceful. The Muslim Brotherhood are failing and fighting back for their own existence. Few days ago angry Egyptians torched down the soccer federation and fueled what looks like a violent protest not only against a court ruling a death penalty to accused of murders during a last year soccer game in Port Said.