The Syrian regime that protected Israel for over 40 years is now calling me a Zionist
The lousy Syrian regime that has bee keenly protecting the Zionist entity since Hafidh Al-Asad became Minister of Defense in the 1960s dares to call me a Zionist. This is like George W. Bush calling someone a war monger.
PS Here is the deal I have with the propaganda hoodlums of the Syrian regime: if you liberate the Golan heights from Israeli occupation--and I shall give you another forty years to complete the job--I will apologize to you. Deal?
PS Here is the deal I have with the propaganda hoodlums of the Syrian regime: if you liberate the Golan heights from Israeli occupation--and I shall give you another forty years to complete the job--I will apologize to you. Deal?
Posted on May 21, 2013 by As'ad
AJE apolgoizes–kind of–to Joseph Massad and reposts the article
Finally, AJE apologizes--kind of--and reposts the censored article by comrade Joseph Massad. As for the notion that this article is similar to a previous article, I say: please go play in the garden, NOW. If the decision was purely technical, why publish it and then remove it then? Give me a potato, please.
Posted on May 21, 2013 by As'ad
US and Burma
"Either way, the administration remains deeply troubled by Myanmar’s repressive policies and actions." And who is the stance of being "deeply troubled" reflected? By receiving the Burmese dictator in the Oval House. Sare me.
Posted on May 21, 2013 by As'ad
Aljazeera America: important announcement
Hoping to fend off Zionist criticisms, Aljazeera America announced the name of its main chief anchor. Congratulations.
Posted on May 21, 2013 by As'ad
Heroism of the Egyptian Army
"Egyptian officials say troops and police mistakenly fired on a Bedouin funeral in the Sinai during a sweep searching for security personnel kidnapped by suspected militants."
Posted on May 21, 2013 by As'ad
Atheism in Egypt: thank you, MB
Posted on May 21, 2013 by As'ad
Toursim: China and Israel
Tourism from China to Israel jumped 49 percent to nearly 20,000 visitor arrivals in the past two years, growing nearly twice as fast as the almost 20 percent growth for all of Asia, according to Tourism Ministry figures. The number of visitors from Europe increased by only 3 percent in the same period. “The tourism potential for Israel from China is far from realized and one of the goals of the ministry for 2013 is to break into the Chinese market,” former tourism minister Stas Misezhnikov said in March. " (thanks Mohammed)
Posted on May 21, 2013 by As'ad
Greenwald on AJE’s censorship
Glenn writes about AJE's censorship of Joseph Massad's anti-Zionist article. But one thing in the article bothered me, I have to say: the reference to the PhD dissertation of Mahmoud Abbas. Abbas should not be mentioned in the same article on the topic because he is a notorious anti-Semite and his dissertation contained grotesque denial of the holocaust.
Posted on May 21, 2013 by As'ad
Hazem Saghiyyah: in the service of oil princes
So yesterday, I casually mocked that Hazem Saghiyyah (a right-wing writer in the mouthpiece of Prince Khalid bin Sultan and in Hariri media) after receiving a journalism award from the ruler of Dubai--kid you not, I am not making this up--he wrote a column praising the Dubai model. So he commented on my Facebook "like" page and called me a donkey. It is not the first time that he has used bad language in talking about me. Fortunately for my readers, my mother was very strict in our upbringing: that we don't engage anyone who uses bad language in debate.
Posted on May 21, 2013 by As'ad
Anti-Semitism versus anti-Islam
And the report noted an increase in anti-Semitism in Europe and the Middle East. In his remarks, Mr. Kerry announced the appointment of a new special envoy on the issue, Ira N. Forman, a former director of the National Jewish Democratic Council who also served as the director of Jewish outreach in President Obama’s re-election campaign....The report also chronicled a rise in anti-Muslim attitudes in Europe that have shaped government policies." I hate to bother you but how come there is only a special envoy on the issue of anti-Semitism but not on anti-Islam? How is that measured or decided?
Posted on May 21, 2013 by As'ad
propaganda on Syria
I am sick and tired of the lies and fabrications by both sides in the Syrian conflict. The lastest is one by Syrian regime propagandists in which they claim that the daughter of the Emir of Qatar is tweeting against her father. I mean, come on.
Posted on May 21, 2013 by As'ad
Its days are numbered
"The military onslaught this week against the strategic Syrian town of Qusair has dramatized a surprising combat resilience that has already put rebel forces on the defensive on other key fronts, including near the capital, Damascus.
The military's still-robust fighting ability — apparently bolstered in Qusair by the presence of combatants from Hezbollah, the Lebanese militant group — has confounded predictions from experts and foreign capitals that the Syrian government's days were numbered."
Posted on May 21, 2013 by As'ad
Germany and Syrian rebels
From Adam: "I was interested when I first began to read this interview with the German Foreign Minister and found that he was against shipping weapons to the rebels. That was until he justified the past and current intervention and then why he doesn't want to send the rebels weapons: apparently he would be fine with arming them if "these weapons do not end up in the hands of extremists, terrorists and jihadists, for whom Damascus is merely a staging post on the road to Jerusalem?" That's where I stopped and went elsewhere, only to return so I could send this to you."
Posted on May 21, 2013 by As'ad
A regime that bombs its people: the US
"On August 30, President Harding placed all of West Virginia under martial law. On September 1, 2,500 federal troops arrived with more machine guns, percussion and gas bombs, and 14 airplanes commanded by World War I hero General Billy Mitchell. Bombs rained on miners' positions, though their accuracy was problematic; in the early days of flight, bombs were literally "dropped" from flimsy aircraft." -- Robert E. Weir. Workers In America: A Historical Encyclopedia. 2013. pages 67-68." (thanks Amir)
Posted on May 21, 2013 by As'ad
This is the democratic and secular gang that the US is supporting: Fee Syrian Army threatens that Shi’ites and Alawites to be "wiped off the map"
"Communities inhabited by Shiite Muslims and President Bashar al-Assad’s Alawite minority will be “wiped off the map” if the strategic city of Al-Qusair in central Syria falls to government troops, rebel forces said. “We don’t want this to happen, but it will be a reality imposed on everyone,” Colonel Abdel-Hamid Zakaria, a spokesman for the Free Syrian Army in Turkey, told Al-Arabiya television yesterday. “It’s going to be an open, sectarian, bloody war to the end.”" This threat is typical of the sectarian doublespeak of the Fee Syrian Army: they speak something sectarian and then they catch themselves so they quickly try to backtrack. (thanks Jamal)
Posted on May 21, 2013 by As'ad
This is how the story of Lebanese Salafite intervention in Syria is covered in the New York Times
There has not been one story in the Times about the open and vigorous intervention by Lebanese Salafite groups in the Syrian conflict. The story is buried in passing in an article on Hizbullah's role: " In the northern city of Tripoli, which supplies Sunni fighters to rebel ranks..."
Posted on May 21, 2013 by As'ad
Anne Barnard does it again: she makes things up
"the group has framed as both a proxy fight with Israel and an intervention to defend Lebanese and Syrian Shiites..." I will donate a blender to Anne Barnard if she can find one--not two, just one--source in which a Hizbullah leader states that its intervention in Syria is to defend Lebanese and Syrian Shi`ites. She really literally make things up: or most likely, she basically reproduces whatever she hears from her Syrian armed groups sources and from March 14 in Lebanon, without even verifying. She is so ill-equipped for the role as Beirut bureau chief for the Times, that she sat with Lebanese politician, `Abdul-Rahim Murad, and identified him as an MP, not knowing that he has not been in parliament since 2005.
Posted on May 21, 2013 by As'ad
Ali and his relative
Look at Anne Barnard's pathetic methods of documentation: "Ali, a Lebanese Shiite with ties to Hezbollah, said that a relative and other fighters, updating him by text message from the battlefield..." What does "with ties" to Hizbullah mean? Like he has ties with Hizbullah logo on them? Or he has a rope that ties him to Hizbullah members?
Posted on May 21, 2013 by As'ad
Syria
This is not my battle: you have your trenches and I have mine.
Posted on May 21, 2013 by As'ad
AJE’s censorship of Joseph Massad
To date, all Arab (read Saudi-funded and Qatri funded) media have ignored the AJE's censorship of comrade Joseph Massad under Zionist pressures. Only Al-Akhbar and Al-Manar website wrote on the story.
Posted on May 21, 2013 by As'ad