Archive for April 19, 2007
For those who care, I will offer comments via phone on AlJazeera (Arabic) in 100 minutes from now. The topic is Gates’ visit to Iraq.
Posted on April 19, 2007 by As'ad
This site has a link to my site, citing a Chicago Tribune story about the shooter in Virginia. But this link makes it sound as if I accepted the Chicago Tribune story, when I in fact mocked those stories that were fishing for a Muslim angle. Also, the shooter in his crazy video invoked Jesus [...]
Posted on April 19, 2007 by As'ad
Tomorrow, I leave for Chicago. I am speaking at the Palestine Film Festival. (My presentation will be caramelized, rumors to the contrary notwithstanding).
Posted on April 19, 2007 by As'ad
“A United Nations envoy said Thursday that Israel’s detention of Palestinian children and failure give them proper trials are a problem that feeds the violence in the region.”
Posted on April 19, 2007 by As'ad
“Jordan’s Abdullah tells Israel: We share the same enemies”.
Posted on April 19, 2007 by As'ad
“U.S. Defense Secretary Robert Gates said during his visit to Israel that Washington has decided to sell Joint Direct Attack Munition (JDAM) bombs to Saudi Arabia, Haaretz has learned.” The bombs will be used against those who violate the ban on free love in the kingdom.
Posted on April 19, 2007 by As'ad
It looks like Mr. Bush is indeed “making progress” in Iraq: “Iraq is condemned by Amnesty International today for becoming the world’s fourth highest user of the death penalty, with a rapid acceleration in executions since 2004, when the US handed control to the newly elected government.It says 270 death sentences have been handed down [...]
Posted on April 19, 2007 by As'ad
Saddam’s propagandist, Tariq `Aziz, and his family prove that they are models in submission to tyrants and autocrats. Tariq `Aziz named his son Saddam after Saddam Husayn, and his son Ziyad (who lives in Jordan), named his daughter Rania after Queen Rania of Jordan.
Posted on April 19, 2007 by As'ad
It is not true that mini-Hariri can’t talk intelligently about international affairs. Today in Rome: he reiterated his call for the UN to deal with Iranian “enrichment of…potassium.”
Posted on April 19, 2007 by As'ad
I wish to congratulate my friends at As-Safir newspaper for losing Faysal Salman as a columnist. (He now writes for Hariri rag, Al-Mustaqbal).
Posted on April 19, 2007 by As'ad
Billboards in Lebanon are now announcing bank loans for plastic surgery. This is the true Lebanonesia.
Posted on April 19, 2007 by As'ad
Students at the Lebanese University were expecting to see the US ambassador in Lebanon. Above, they prepared to welcome him. (LCP is the Lebanese Communist Party).
Posted on April 19, 2007 by As'ad
“Les milices libanaises commencent à réarmer”
Posted on April 19, 2007 by As'ad
It has been brought to my attention that some people have been exchanging death threats in the comments’ section of this site. Please desist. While I don’t censor the comments on the site, I will delete any such threats and calls to violence not only because they violate the laws of this country (and other [...]
Posted on April 19, 2007 by As'ad
“An Egyptian living in Saudi Arabia has been sentenced to death for desecrating the Koran and renouncing Islam, Saudi newspapers and a rights activist said on Wednesday. Okaz and al-Hayat newspapers said worshippers at a mosque in the desert town of Arar in north Saudi Arabia lodged a complaint with police saying the man, a [...]
Posted on April 19, 2007 by As'ad
When the puppets grumble. The recent speeches of Mu`ammar Al-Qadhdhafi have been a throw back to his speeches from the 1970s. He clearly has been expressing his disappointment at the US: he was expecting better and bigger rewards for his new status as one of many Arab tyrannical puppets. The US took notice. They sent [...]
Posted on April 19, 2007 by As'ad
American Left and the Middle East: Part X: “Bush has never sought the resumption of the Oslo process that became moribund at precisely its most promising juncture, the Taba meetings of January 2001. Nor has Bush seized the opportunities presented by successive iterations of the Saudi-drafted peace plan endorsed by the Arab League.” Oh, please. [...]
Posted on April 19, 2007 by As'ad
Kooky court: “The Iranian Supreme Court has overturned the murder convictions of six members of a prestigious state militia who killed five people they considered “morally corrupt.—
Posted on April 19, 2007 by As'ad
Arab media keep referring to the two Lebanese students who tragically died in the shooting at Virginia Tech. But there is also a third Arab victim: an Egyptian graduate student who also died. “Waleed Shaalan, a 32-year-old graduate student, came to the United States from northern Egypt last year to study engineering. He lived among [...]
Posted on April 19, 2007 by As'ad
“Britain’s biggest journalists’ union, The National Union of Journalists, has criticized Israel’s “military adventures” and has voted narrowly in favor of a boycott of Israeli goods. The vote followed calls by some British academics last year to ostracize their Israeli counterparts.” (thanks Zitta)
Posted on April 19, 2007 by As'ad