Archive for August 21, 2006
I saw footage of the village of Qulaylah (south west of the city of Tyre)–the hometown of the AbuKhalil family on New TV. It was most devastated. I am told that my (late) aunt’s house was totally demolished. I thought I saw that in the footage. Some places I could not recognize. Another (late) aunt [...]
Posted on August 21, 2006 by As'ad
Why all this talk about reconstructing the state in Lebanon? I have lived under and experienced first hand the Lebanese state, and don’t wish it on any human being. If it is broken, don’t fix it, or break it further, or something like that.
Posted on August 21, 2006 by As'ad
I never was much of a fan of “democracy” as a solution to the problems in the Middle East, or anywhere else for that matter. but I am even less able to stomach talks of “democracy in the Middle East” these days. What does democracy mean when 25% of the elected representatives of the Palestinian [...]
Posted on August 21, 2006 by As'ad
“Five Lebanese citizens, including two elderly men, were imprisoned for four days in a bus, reserve soldiers serving in the Military Police told Haaretz Monday. The reservists said that arguments in the Israel Defense Forces prevented putting the prisoners in a POW compound. The prisoners were released when it transpired that they were not associated [...]
Posted on August 21, 2006 by As'ad
“Second Class: Northern Arabs are not being compensated for wartime losses as are Jews [in Israel.]“
Posted on August 21, 2006 by As'ad
New standards of battle. Are you kidding me? So Israel, which has the most powerful army in the region, wants Hizbullah to disarm. Israel wants its enemy to be disarmed so that in the next battle, the Israeli military can face a defenseless and helpless civilian population in South Lebanon. The UN, EU, US, and [...]
Posted on August 21, 2006 by As'ad
On this day, Bernard Lewis is scared. He is very scared. He is probably underground, in a secure location.
Posted on August 21, 2006 by As'ad
““Our traditional sensibilities tell us that it is not right to risk the lives of our soldiers to minimize civilian deaths on the other side,” he said.” (thanks Sara)
Posted on August 21, 2006 by As'ad
From a person who knows the Middle East: “Not since 1967 has the Middle East suffered so many simultaneous high-intensity crises. They are all linked by many threads, making partial solutions more difficult and dragging the region ever faster into the abyss.”
Posted on August 21, 2006 by As'ad
“In the most outspoken acknowledgment of Israel’s failings in the war, one retiring senior army officer also admitted that the military felt “a certain sense of failure” after 34 days of combat. Brigadier Yossi Heiman, head of infantry and paratroopers, told a ceremony on Sunday: “We have sinned the sin of hubris.””
Posted on August 21, 2006 by As'ad
“25% of Palestinian MPs detained by Israel“
Posted on August 21, 2006 by As'ad
Hasan Dib Nasrallah is free. Finally: a picture of Hasan Dib Nasrallah, the Lebanese grocer who was kidnapped by Israeli occupation soldiers in a “daring Israeli commando raid” because, well, his name is Hasan Dib Nasrallah. But now that I have seen his picture, I do understand the mistake that was made by the brilliant [...]
Posted on August 21, 2006 by As'ad
When Joseph Samahah writes, Angry Arab reads.
Posted on August 21, 2006 by As'ad
I don’t think highly of `Amr Musa–a mere tool of Husni Mubarak. In the meeting of Arab foreign ministers during the Israeli war on Lebanon, he said that the “peace process” is dead. The other day, in the last meeting of the Arab foreign ministers, he said that it is important that we “infuse” [the [...]
Posted on August 21, 2006 by As'ad
“George W. Bush reads Camus”. That in itself is the joke. You don’t need to say anything else.
Posted on August 21, 2006 by As'ad
My enemies are so predictable. I made a prediction about MEMRI in this post. Today, I was proven right. MEMRI did what I said they would do. And MEMRI, I will predict, will not translate this response to Muna Fayyad.
Posted on August 21, 2006 by As'ad
There is a conspiracy. You have to be an idiot not to see it. In this pro-Bush Saudi newspaper, Ash-Sharq Al-Awsat, this is the 3rd article praising the conditions in Guantanamo. (thanks Amer)
Posted on August 21, 2006 by As'ad
“L’ombre du Hezbollah sur l’assassinat de Hariri: «Le Figaro» révèle qu’un Libanais, proche du mouvement chiite, est recherché pour avoir participé à la préparation du crime contre l’ancien premier ministre.” What a coincidence. Just now, an evidence was found. What is next? (thanks Laurie)
Posted on August 21, 2006 by As'ad
““Bennington†(1945).” Grandma Moses.
Posted on August 21, 2006 by As'ad
NYT: “The ruins of southern Beirut Sunday, after being pounded by Israeli airstrikes for a month.”
Posted on August 21, 2006 by As'ad