Archive for May 15, 2007
Walid Jumblat took an olive tree and planted it (literally) at the US Embassy in Lebanon. He said that he wanted it to symbolize the friendship between US and Lebanon. Is that not nice?
Posted on May 15, 2007 by As'ad
“Monet’s series of paintings depicting the dappled light playing across the water-lilies at his home in Giverny are considered some of the finest works by the French Impressionists. But new research suggests the famously blurred effect achieved by the master’s brush strokes may have been a literal representation of how he saw the world. Monet’s [...]
Posted on May 15, 2007 by As'ad
“Jerry Falwell and I became good friends. He would visit me in California…”
Posted on May 15, 2007 by As'ad
“Asked if the creation of a tribunal would destabilize Lebanon, Khalilzad said, “We understand that there are some risks, some say, with regard to taking action, but we believe that the risks of not taking action are greater.”” Are those like the risks of destabilizing Iraq, Mr. neo-conservative?
Posted on May 15, 2007 by As'ad
“White House Counsel Alberto R. Gonzales and President Bush’s chief of staff, Andrew H. Card Jr., were on their way to the hospital to persuade Ashcroft to reauthorize Bush’s domestic surveillance program, which the Justice Department had just determined was illegal.”
Posted on May 15, 2007 by As'ad
“It is not hard to imagine why some in the west have found this perception so alluring, for there are numerous people who want to portray “the Arabs” in these terms. In the United States and elsewhere those who have spearheaded the case for foreign intervention in Darfur are largely the people who regard the [...]
Posted on May 15, 2007 by As'ad
“PHOENIX — State lawmakers voted Monday to approve a law blocking the sale of anti-war T-shirts with the names of dead soldiers on them — a measure one media lawyer says is “unconstitutional about three or four different ways.”” (thanks Holly)
Posted on May 15, 2007 by As'ad
Lysandra Ohrstrom of the Daily Star solves the problem of migrant workers in Lebanon. You see, according to her, they only need to join the Catholic church. (thanks Mick)
Posted on May 15, 2007 by As'ad
“Si se pregunta en las calles de Gaza y Cisjordania quiénes orquestaron huelgas contra el Ejecutivo de Hamás, quiénes ordenaron asesinatos de militantes islamistas, y quienes instigaron el caos, la respuesta es casi siempre la misma: Mohamed Dahlan, amo y señor de los cuerpos policiales leales al presidente Abbas, y sus subordinados.” (thanks Lucia)
Posted on May 15, 2007 by As'ad
“But Bremer himself never understood Iraq, knew no Arabic, had no experience in the Middle East and made no effort to educate himself — as his statements clearly show.Time and again, he refers to “the formerly ruling Sunnis,” “rank-and-file Sunnis,” “the old Sunni regime,” “responsible Sunnis.” This obsession with sects informed the U.S. approach to [...]
Posted on May 15, 2007 by As'ad
Nothing poses a danger to one’s own principles and convictions than naked political ambition. I lost any respect I had retained for former Lebanese Finance Minister, Dimyanus Qattar, after watching him on LBC-TV today. The closer we get to the presidential election, the close he positions himself towards the March 14th Movement, although he privates [...]
Posted on May 15, 2007 by As'ad
“An angry and bitter Paul Wolfowitz poured abuse and threatened retaliations on senior World Bank staff if his orders for pay rises and promotions for his partner were revealed, according to new details published last night. Under fire for the lavish package given to Shaha Riza, a World Bank employee and Mr Wolfowitz’s girlfriend when [...]
Posted on May 15, 2007 by As'ad
I really wonder who is behind the clashes in Gaza? If I only knew who triggered them.
Posted on May 15, 2007 by As'ad
“An unknown left-wing group calling itself the Iraqi Armed Revolutionary Resistance distributed leaflets in the Mid-Euphrates area around Najaf, Hilla and Karbala calling for “resistance against American, British and Zionist occupiers in order to liberate Iraq and form a free socialist, democratic alternative,” according to the Al-Badeel Al-Iraqi website. The group, which described itself as [...]
Posted on May 15, 2007 by As'ad
“”There’s an instant empathy and an instant recognition when we meet up,” Makiya says, describing his affinity for Europeans.” Nothing wrong with that. He admires the White Man, and the White Man likes him, provided he knows his place, and he certainly does. (thanks Nir)
Posted on May 15, 2007 by As'ad
Nobody should refer to the clashes in Gaza as a Palestinian “civil war.” This is part of the war of Israel on the Palestinians–and Israeli (and US) weapons and funds are being used.
Posted on May 15, 2007 by As'ad
In a way it is good. Hitchens is now as clear and blatant in his racism and bigotry as Jerry Falwell was. No. In fact, Hitchens is really more blatant: “Quite unlike the Irish and the Cypriots, they bring these far-off quarrels along with them. And they also bring a religion which is not ashamed [...]
Posted on May 15, 2007 by As'ad
Mudhaffar An-Nawwab. One of the highlights of my trip to Houston was meeting Iraqi poet, Mudhaffar An-Nawwab. He is the greatest dissident poet of the Arab world, fleeing Saddam’s regime, and then moving from one country to another (and not being wanted in any of them), and having to worry about Saddam’s henchmen who followed [...]
Posted on May 15, 2007 by As'ad
“Pope Benedict XVI ended his first pilgrimage to the Americas much as he began it: with a searing attack on diverse forces, from Marxism and capitalism to birth control, that he believes threaten society and the Roman Catholic faith. And in comment likely to generate controversy in Latin America, the pope said the New World’s [...]
Posted on May 15, 2007 by As'ad
Has Ibrahim Hooper of CAIR issued a fatwawawa as of late? Because Maher Hathout has issued a fatwawawa to unite Sunnis and Shi`ites. And we know that fatwawawawas of Muslim American organizations are strictly followed by more than 1 billion Muslims worldwide. And that Shaykh Qazwini: does he follow Sistani or Woflowitz or both?
Posted on May 15, 2007 by As'ad