Archive for November 4, 2005
I was reading Syrian newspapers. How sad. I think that it was Patrick Seale who had told me that the Syrian English daily is modeled after the North Korean English daily. There are reports in the Syrian press about non-existent Arab and international protests in support of Syria. When you do not have evidence, just [...]
Posted on November 4, 2005 by As'ad
“Long before George Bush took up the mantle of democratizing the Middle East, al-Jazeera routinely broadcast debates about political reform in the Arab world.”
Posted on November 4, 2005 by As'ad
I offer this sentence to Lebanonese nationalists: “If the Phoenicians were so important in Mediterranean history, how is it that they left not a single work of literature behind?”
Posted on November 4, 2005 by As'ad
What bothers me is that the assassination of Hariri, and the international exploitation of it, have obscured the destructive role of Hariri in the disastrous economic policies that he pursued as prime minister, and which burdened Lebanese people (in the past, present, and future), and his very destructive role in the construction of the Syrian-Lebanese [...]
Posted on November 4, 2005 by As'ad
Oh, no: Saddam is back to writing his lousy poetry. An Iraqi weekly is reporting that Saddam, while waiting in the courtroom during his last appearance, wrote those two lines of “poetry”: اشمخ عزيزاً مهرك البارودوان تعثر الزمان يعودعزمنا للدهر نيرانا مخبأةاخدود ÙÙŠ الوغى يتبعه اخدود(Stand up proud, your brideprice is gunpowderAnd if time stumbles, [...]
Posted on November 4, 2005 by As'ad
Sarkozy Versus de Villepin: Saudi Arabia Versus Qatar: Al-Arabiyya versus AlJazeera. It is astonishing, or not really, how different the coverage of the French disturbances on Al-Arabiyya versus AlJazeera. It will be years before we know the price (political and economic) that Saudi Arabia paid to the US after Sep. 11. It is very clear [...]
Posted on November 4, 2005 by As'ad
Mountains and Sea, 1952. Helen Frankenthaler.
Posted on November 4, 2005 by As'ad
“Latin America prepares to ‘say no to Bush’”
Posted on November 4, 2005 by As'ad
“Italy ‘warned Saddam intelligence was bogus’”
Posted on November 4, 2005 by As'ad
“Syria’s opposition creeps out of the shadows as crisis grows”
Posted on November 4, 2005 by As'ad
As Bush brags about the “progress” that he keeps making in Iraq: “Warning of even more violence before December elections, a U.S. military official in Baghdad released figures Thursday showing roadside bomb attacks have risen sharply since the spring, with nearly 2,100 such blasts in the last two months alone.”
Posted on November 4, 2005 by As'ad
Apparently, and according to reliable French reports, the riots in France were fueled by infiltrators from across the border from…Syria.
Posted on November 4, 2005 by As'ad
Don’t feel sorry for this child. He is one of the senior aides to Zarqawi.
Posted on November 4, 2005 by As'ad