Archive for August 20, 2006

It is very important that Arabs, and non-Arabs, don’t romanticize the Shi`ites as a group in light of Hizbullah successes in the resistance to Israeli occupation and aggression. No group, qua group, should be romanticized. In 1982, most Shi`ites were supportive of the Amal Movement and quite willing to cooperate with the Israeli [...]

Posted by As'ad at 11:44 PM 08/20/06

“The outgoing Chief Infantry and Paratroopers Officer of the Israel Defense Forces, Brigadier General Yossi Heiman, on Sunday became the first senior officer to concede a degree of failure in the Lebanon war.” Failure? What failure? Did they not nab Hasan Dib Nasrallah?

Posted by As'ad at 10:53 PM 08/20/06

“On American perception of media coverage war in Lebanon: “Generally, the public gives good grades to press coverage of the conflict ¬ 61% feel it has been fair, while a 47% plurality says the amount of coverage has been appropriate. Overall, 5% of Americans believe press coverage has been biased against [...]

Posted by As'ad at 10:38 PM 08/20/06

“A child plays in the streets of Aitta Shaaba, a village riddled with cluster bombs.” (This child will grow up, in case you did not know).

Posted by As'ad at 10:36 PM 08/20/06

“Unexploded cluster bombs prompt fear and fury in returning refugees”

Posted by As'ad at 10:33 PM 08/20/06

““How could the Lebanese army or some international force do what the mightiest army in the Middle East (Israel) did not do? Don’t ask us to disarm by force. It is a fantasy.””

Posted by As'ad at 10:29 PM 08/20/06

Duha Shams makes a very good point, about resistance and media.

Posted by As'ad at 9:20 PM 08/20/06

“Israel Committed to Block Arms and Kill Nasrallah”

Posted by As'ad at 11:04 AM 08/20/06

“Casemovia Lake” (1948). Grandma Moses.

Posted by As'ad at 10:33 AM 08/20/06

Please, don’t post the same comment 10 times.

Posted by As'ad at 10:33 AM 08/20/06

“British mine clearance experts have accused Israel of “carpeting” Lebanese border villages with deadly cluster bombs, claiming that more appeared to have been used than in the American-led invasion of Iraq.” (thanks Laleh)

Posted by As'ad at 9:32 AM 08/20/06

Only today, Pierre Laval of Lebanon visited the southern suburbs. I noticed that he was escorted by Nabih Birri, speaker of parliament. He had to go with Birri to protect him from the rage of the residents who detest Sanyurah and Hariri Inc and what they stand for.

Posted by As'ad at 9:22 AM 08/20/06

It was a fiasco and yet it is still considered a “daring commando raid: “In the eastern Lebanese mountain village of Buday, residents say Hezbollah’s strength combined with Israeli soldiers’ unconvincing Arabic accents proved fatal for a daring commando raid.” (thanks Utpal)

Posted by As'ad at 9:21 AM 08/20/06

Lies of Israeli propaganda: now the Israeli military, to try to explain or justify their humiliation, has come up with this. Hizbullah is “the fifth most powerful army in the Middle East.”

Posted by As'ad at 9:18 AM 08/20/06

An interview with Hanady Salman.

Posted by As'ad at 9:02 AM 08/20/06

“In a reflection of the mood of deep scepticism within Labour, one of the party’s MPs quoted the Deputy Prime Minister John Prescott as telling a private meeting last week that the Americans’ record on the Israeli-Palestinian ‘road map’ talks was ‘crap’. Prescott said he had been misquoted.”

Posted by As'ad at 12:01 AM 08/20/06