Archive for October 22, 2005

The Arab League’s budget is $18 million per year (less than the amount of money spent by King Fahd on one casino table in one night in the 1970s–but I would not give any money to the Arab league under its current management and under the current Arab state system). 14$ million of the budget [...]

Posted on October 22, 2005 by As'ad

Former Lebanese communist leader, Karim Muruwwah says: “We should put Lenin on trial.” Angry Arab says: No, we should put people like Karim Muruwwah on trial. They, not Lenin, were responsible for the Stalinization and the ossification of the communist movement in Lebanon. People like him turned the Communist Party first into a tool of [...]

Posted on October 22, 2005 by As'ad

Harirism of the Day. I am not making this up. In the address that mini-Hariri gave to the Lebanese people, he said that his father was not assassinated “by accident.”

Posted on October 22, 2005 by As'ad

Let me report to you the coherent and consistent position of the Syrian government toward the Mehlis Report: the Syrian government considers the report full of “lies and deception” but expresses its determination to cooperate with the Mehlis investigation. Do you see what kind of governments the Arab people live under (and suffer)?

Posted on October 22, 2005 by As'ad

The magnificent sketch artists of Lebanese police: an entire force of Lebanese police stormed into the house of a Lebanese citizen yesterday because he looked like the recent sketch of a wanted suspect (shown above). In a short time, it became clear that person in custody was not the wanted man. He was released, and [...]

Posted on October 22, 2005 by As'ad

Karen Hughes, a historian of modern Iraq.

Posted on October 22, 2005 by As'ad

“Howard Zinn: Vision and Voice”

Posted on October 22, 2005 by As'ad

This is what it really is about, Lebanonese foolish naivite notwithstanding: “the United States was determined to rely on the report’s damning of Damascus to further its campaign to isolate Syria, which it holds responsible for financing anti-Israel guerrilla groups and encouraging insurgents crossing its border into Iraq.”

Posted on October 22, 2005 by As'ad

My review of the Simpsons (and here I am identified as “An Arab TV critic”)

Posted on October 22, 2005 by As'ad

Dowd on Miller

Posted on October 22, 2005 by As'ad

“Zentraler Zeuge in Mehlis-Report ist verurteilter Betrüger” (If Rif`at Al-Asad is involved, then you know the results)

Posted on October 22, 2005 by As'ad

From Elie Kan`an’s exhibit in Beirut.

Posted on October 22, 2005 by As'ad

Today was a very difficult day for Sa`d Hariri. His aides read him an abstract of the executive summary of the executive summary of the executive summary of the executive summary of the executive summary of the Mehlis Report. He was devastated when he learned that his father was actually murdered. “Why didn’t anybody tell [...]

Posted on October 22, 2005 by As'ad

From Tabaqat Ash-Sha`rani (my translation): “If you see a policeman sleeping during prayer time, don’t wake him up. He may wake up and harm people.” (Sufyan Ath-Thawri)

Posted on October 22, 2005 by As'ad