Archive for February 2, 2007
“The Hamas prosecution also featured another central player in the Libby saga: former New York Times reporter Judith Miller, who testified on behalf of prosecutors in Chicago about an Israeli interrogation session with Salah that she witnessed in the early 1990s.” (thanks Salaita)
Posted on February 2, 2007 by As'ad
“The Turkish Hosiery Manufacturers’ Association (ÇSD) sent 12 pairs of socks to World Bank President Paul Wolfowitz after he was photographed with torn socks during a visit to Turkey.” (thanks Badis)
Posted on February 2, 2007 by As'ad
New TV is reporting that Suq Al-Mazra`ah (two blocks from the house where I was born and grew up) has adopted a new policy: to ban customers from discussing politics. All stores will now post reminding customers of the ban.
Posted on February 2, 2007 by As'ad
“Gen. George W. Casey Jr. told members of the Senate Armed Services Committee that the war remained “winnable—. I don’t know about you, but I think that 20,000 additional troops can make any war winnable.
Posted on February 2, 2007 by As'ad
You can go to sleep now: it is official. “A Pew poll last year found American support for Israel as strong now as at any time in the last 13 years.”
Posted on February 2, 2007 by As'ad
The US ambassador in Lebanon today issued a fatwawawawa: he decreed that the parliament in Lebanon is the only body that can bring down a government. Imagine if the Lebanese ambassador in Washington, DC lectures the American public about the American constitutional process.
Posted on February 2, 2007 by As'ad
Walid Jumblat is obsessed these days with impressing the White Man. You have to read this speech of his in which he reproduces vulgar Orientalist cliches about “the East.” He even quotes Kipling’s “Oh, East is East, and West is West, and never the two shall meet.” And then concludes by quoting Churchill. Correct me [...]
Posted on February 2, 2007 by As'ad
“It was a rich contradiction: US-allied Sunnis carrying posters of Saddam.” I don’t see the contradiction. It is not a contradiction at all. In fact, it is consistent. It is as consistent as those Shi`ite puppets in Iraq holding portraits of Khumani. (thanks Lisette)
Posted on February 2, 2007 by As'ad
Hannah Arendt is right. People are very selective when they read Fannon’s The Wretched of the Earth. Fannon warns of the “unmixed and total brutality [which] , if not immediately combatted, invariably leads to the defeat of the movement within a few weeks.” (As cited in Arendt, On Violence, p. 14). I thought about that [...]
Posted on February 2, 2007 by As'ad
Usamah Rahbani compares his (untalented) father, Mansur, to Shakespeare and Al-Mutanabbi. He could have compared Bush to Hegel and Nietzsche, while he was at it. (thanks Amer)
Posted on February 2, 2007 by As'ad
Hamid Karzai is now paid his salary in shoes.
Posted on February 2, 2007 by As'ad
You may be accused of “France-bashing” if you (correctly) quote Chirac.
Posted on February 2, 2007 by As'ad
Yes, she was brave…except on Palestine.
Posted on February 2, 2007 by As'ad
“”The fact of the matter is we have a government that will do what it wants to do for the next two years,” he said. “The worst is yet to come. It’s sort of like we’re essentially powerless [and] just play it out.””
Posted on February 2, 2007 by As'ad
A Lebanonese tells the White Man about the problems of Lebanon (and why poor Lebanon is a victim): “Victime de l’Etat qui, en 1943 (date de l’Indépendance du Liban), n’a pas su intégrer la communauté chiite à la Nation,Victime de la communauté chiite qui – jusqu’à l’heure où je vous parle – se veut (se [...]
Posted on February 2, 2007 by As'ad