Archive for June 10, 2006

Make no mistake about it: the conflict between February 14th Movement and the March 8th Movement in Lebanon can’t be categorized in terms of right versus left. None of the two sides is associated with the Left. In fact, the Hizbullah Minister in the cabinet is implementing a lousy privatization of his own ministry. The [...]

Posted on June 10, 2006 by As'ad

“That account was disputed in a village north of Baghdad, where Iraqis said American commandos killed five civilians in a Friday morning raid. In Ghalibiya, near the scene of Mr. Zarqawi’s death, a local Iraqi interviewed by telephone said American commandos dressed in black had raided the hamlet around 4 a.m. The Iraqi, a farmer [...]

Posted on June 10, 2006 by As'ad

For the history books of Arab-Israeli conflict.

Posted on June 10, 2006 by As'ad

Watch Hadil, and remember who killed her family. Always remember.

Posted on June 10, 2006 by As'ad

This is Zionism. No peace with Zionism, ever. “Seven-year-old Hadeel Ghalia was recovering from shrapnel cuts yesterday, still unaware that her mother, father, baby brother and three other siblings were killed in an Israeli shelling attack which could bring Hamas’s 15-month informal ceasefire to an end.”

Posted on June 10, 2006 by As'ad

Globalization: The Egyptian foreign minister called Israeli terrorist shelling of civilians: “excessive.”

Posted on June 10, 2006 by As'ad

No peace with Zionism: “Eyewitnesses reported that a barrage of shells landed on the northern coast of the Gaza Strip on Friday at approximately 5:15 P.M. local time, causing the deaths of seven members of the Ghalia family and injuring close to 40 others, among them many children as well as five other members of [...]

Posted on June 10, 2006 by As'ad

The Brown University student who was kidnapped in Nablus in Palestine was allegedly kidnapped by a gang of Muhammad Dahlan.

Posted on June 10, 2006 by As'ad

Under this picture, the New York Times publisehd this caption: “A girl wept Friday on a Gaza beach after what apparently was an errant Israeli shell killed seven people, five of them members of a family.” Notice that the New York Times volunteers a cover story for the murder of the civilians.

Posted on June 10, 2006 by As'ad

“the intelligence stations that the Jordanians have, secretly and recently, been allowed to set up in Iraq itself.”

Posted on June 10, 2006 by As'ad

“Perhaps most radically, Ferguson concludes that to see the 20th century as the triumph of the West, or the “American Century”, with its long, irreversible glide into liberal democratic capitalism (vide Francis Fukuyama’s “the end of history”), is “fundamentally to misread the trajectory of the past hundred years”. What he sees is a reorientation of [...]

Posted on June 10, 2006 by As'ad

Treasure Trove Update: “Some of them, Caldwell said, were related to what he had called a “treasure trove” of information recovered from the bombed house.”

Posted on June 10, 2006 by As'ad

“When U.S. forces arrived, they took the man aside, Mohammed said, and kept asking him his name. When he did not respond, the soldiers kicked him and hit him, Mohammed said, until his nose began to bleed.”

Posted on June 10, 2006 by As'ad

The sectarianism of the Lebanese Maronite Patriarch is so extreme that today he complained that some Christians have sold “their lands.” What if they sold their lands to other Christians, o Maronite Patriarch?

Posted on June 10, 2006 by As'ad

The Report of Brammertz. If you did not read it, I shall summarize. First, again, there is such a difference of style between Brammertz and Mehlis. The former is more cautious and careful, and certainly more professional. In the case of Mehlis, he was willing to report any rumor and any speculation provided it was [...]

Posted on June 10, 2006 by As'ad

Dubuffet, Jean, Dhotel nuance d’abricot, 1947.

Posted on June 10, 2006 by As'ad

“The hardest hit in the Israel Defense Forces artillery strike on a Gaza beach Friday was the Ghalia family, which lost six members, among them the father, one of his two wives, an infant boy and an 18-month-old girl. Less than two years ago, four members of the family were killed when IDF shell hit [...]

Posted on June 10, 2006 by As'ad

Bush Doctrine Update: “Fall of Mogadishu leaves US policy in ruins“

Posted on June 10, 2006 by As'ad

“A barrage of Israeli artillery shells rained down on a busy Gaza beach yesterday, killing seven Palestinians, three of them children. The attack put further strain on the 16-month truce between Israel and the governing Hamas movement. Witnesses described several explosions that also injured dozens of other people who lay on the beach, screaming and [...]

Posted on June 10, 2006 by As'ad