Archive for August 7, 2006
I just spoke to somebody in Beirut who ran yesterday into a member of Hizbullah’s leadership. The latter told the former that “Sanyurah is two-faced.” It took this Israeli war of aggression for Hizbullah to discover that Sanyurah is two-faced?
Posted on August 7, 2006 by As'ad
From Blessings for Something that Has not Arrived by Palestinian poet Mahmud Darwish (my translation):“Their blood is before meinhabiting the cities that are neareras if their wounds are ships of returnAnd they alone can’t return…Their blood is before me..I don’t see itAs if it is my homelandBefore me…I don’t see itLike the roads of Jaffa–I [...]
Posted on August 7, 2006 by As'ad
I am not a fan of Galloway, but this is an amusing interview.
Posted on August 7, 2006 by As'ad
I never thought that I would say this, but I fully agree with Michael Young’s assessment here.
Posted on August 7, 2006 by As'ad
The Lebanon of LBC-TV is a Lebanon that I can’t recognize and I can’t even understand. I don’t even know those Lebanese. Who are they? Do you get to hear those callers? Sometimes I feel that the people who call are remnants of the South Lebanon Army.
Posted on August 7, 2006 by As'ad
“The incident is just one among dozens of examples of an enemy that has proven more resilient and better-equipped than Israeli military forces anticipated. After nearly four weeks of air attacks and ground combat, Israeli military officials say that they have killed only a small fraction of Hezbollah’s fighters and that the group still has [...]
Posted on August 7, 2006 by As'ad
“Claims that US troops shot dead up to six unarmed Afghan civilians two months ago in Kabul have been given added credibility with a series of photographs offering visual evidence of military misconduct.”
Posted on August 7, 2006 by As'ad
“It is 28 days since Hizbollah captured two Israeli soldiers, prompting a ground and air assault on Lebanon by the Israeli army. In that time, 932 people have been killed in Lebanon, with 75 missing, presumed dead: 29 Lebanese Army soldiers have been killed. 3,293 Lebanese have been wounded. 45 per cent of the casualties [...]
Posted on August 7, 2006 by As'ad
To Nadim Shehadi. What on earth are you talking about here? “”If there was an attack on Syria, it will involve Iran because they have a pact. It means Iraq goes up in smoke. Everything in Iraq could look like a warm-up if Iran manages to set off a Shia rising. You would have the [...]
Posted on August 7, 2006 by As'ad
“Israel also threatened to attack UN peacekeepers if they attempted to repair bomb-damaged bridges in southern Lebanon. UN officials contacted the Israeli army to inform them that a team of Chinese military engineers attached to the UN force in Lebanon intended to repair the bridge on the Beirut to Tyre road to enable the transport [...]
Posted on August 7, 2006 by As'ad
“Since Israel’s withdrawal from southern Lebanon in May 2000, there have been hundreds of violations of the “blue line” between the two countries. The United Nations Interim Force in Lebanon (Unifil) reports that Israeli aircraft crossed the line “on an almost daily basis” between 2001 and 2003, and “persistently” until 2006. These incursions “caused great [...]
Posted on August 7, 2006 by As'ad
“US soldiers, accused of raping and murdering a 14-year-old Iraqi girl, drank alcohol and hit golf balls before the attack. One of them grilled chicken wings afterwards, a criminal investigator told a US military hearing yesterday.”
Posted on August 7, 2006 by As'ad
Fabrications of Michael Young. Michael Young here says: “In a Christian neighborhood, they clashed with the son of a former president and his comrades.” He forgot that some people who read the New York Times know Lebanese politics. He is talking here about a right-wing gang leader: Sami Gemayyel, son of Amin Gemayyel. When the [...]
Posted on August 7, 2006 by As'ad
60% of people in Mauritania believe that relations with Israel are counter to their sentiments.
Posted on August 7, 2006 by As'ad
Al-Quds Al-`Arabi reports that a Palestinian man was stopped at an Israeli checkpoint north of the West Bank. He was asked to curse Hasan Nasrallah, and when he refused, they confiscated his papers, held him for hours, and then they hit him.
Posted on August 7, 2006 by As'ad
The tears of Sanyurah (by Sami Klayb)
Posted on August 7, 2006 by As'ad
This is significant: ’67 all over again. In ’67, Nasser tried to justify his defeat by saying that he was fighting the US and Israel. Olmert today claimed that he was fighting Iran and Syria AND Hizbullah.
Posted on August 7, 2006 by As'ad
The German government officially banned pictures of Hasan Nasrallah in demonstrations. (It is still legal to carry pictures of Tony Danza.)
Posted on August 7, 2006 by As'ad
Bashshar Al-Asad has spoken. Wake up the children and release the pigs from the barn. Tell them that the Syrian Ba`th has taken a stand. So Bashshar said that “resistance” is the only option. (He meant: “the only option except for Syrian territories which we don’t mind keeping occupied as long as my family continues [...]
Posted on August 7, 2006 by As'ad
Lebanese versus Israeli press. In the Israeli press, you read one columnist after another calling on the Israeli army to destroy more of Lebanon. Here, this Lebanese (Shi`ite) writer calls on Hasan Nasrallah to avoid bombing Israeli civilian targets.
Posted on August 7, 2006 by As'ad