Archive for June 1, 2007
“Former Massachusetts governor Mitt Romney, with no known foreign policy expertise or even interest (unless you count his “mission” to France after college, trying to convert the French to Mormonism)…”
Posted on June 1, 2007 by As'ad
“The fighting has created a humanitarian crisis for the camp’s inhabitants, thousands of whom remain trapped inside. U.N. officials say only 5,000 of the 6,200 families registered in Nahr al-Bared have officially evacuated. Camp residents estimate that 10,000 people remain there.“The bombing hasn’t stopped all day long. Bombs are falling everywhere,” Milad Salameh, a nurse [...]
Posted on June 1, 2007 by As'ad
Shadow Government by Syrian poet Muhammad Al-Maghut (my translation): “My mother is Arabismand my father is struggleand my sister is unityand my uncle is positive neutralismand my [other] uncle is non-alignmentand my brother-in-law is steadfastnessand my mother-in-law is the Arab Leagueand my grandfather is [Arab] Joint Defenseand my children are the streetsand I call for [...]
Posted on June 1, 2007 by As'ad
Jalal Talbani seems to have solved the sectarian problem in Iraq. He spoke to Al-Arabia TV and insisted that Sunnis will have an “active role” in Iraqi political life. He said that although Sunnis will have separate drinking fountains, they will have the same quality of water fountains that Shi`ites and Kurds have. Upon hearing [...]
Posted on June 1, 2007 by As'ad
It must a great learning experience to study the Arab world at an Israeli university. Take this for example: “He was speaking at a conference on the empowerment of Arab women at the Hebrew University’s Shasha Center for Strategic and Policy Studies, which he now heads.” Do you know who he is? The person who [...]
Posted on June 1, 2007 by As'ad
Suha `Arafat has spoken. She protested a new Jordanian TV series about `Arafat. I thought that she was protesting the content of the program, but apparently she was merely complaining about licensing issues.
Posted on June 1, 2007 by As'ad
“The Destruction” of Nahr Al-Barid (by `Umar Nashshabah)
Posted on June 1, 2007 by As'ad
The Lebanese Communist Party sent a delegation to the Lebanese Army commander-in-chief to congratulate the army on its heroism. If the oxygen masks don’t drop from my ceiling in two minutes, I will yell out obscenities in Arabic. Beware.
Posted on June 1, 2007 by As'ad
Barham Salih (puppet prime minister in Iraq), who thinks that he is an intellectual because he wears glasses (tell him that Larry King wears glasses too), was on Al-`Arabiya TV. He acknowledged that there is discrimination against Arabs in Kurdish areas, and that they can’t live there unless they obtain a “Kurdish guardian” document, but [...]
Posted on June 1, 2007 by As'ad
If US soldiers are relying on google translations for Arabic when they write graffiti (as part of some highly funded psychological operations, please use real life translators. Above, for example: It says…”li-sha`b al-`Iraqi.” That does not read write (I meant “right” as one reader corrected me–how dare you correct me. Apologize NOW). Obviously, google is [...]
Posted on June 1, 2007 by As'ad
It will be remembered that Hizbullah took to the streets (and staged a months-long sit in in downtown Beirut) to demand an increased cabinet share for the opposition. For Nahr Al-Barid, Hizbullah did nothing.
Posted on June 1, 2007 by As'ad
Does the Lebanese government remember that after black September there was…Black September?
Posted on June 1, 2007 by As'ad
Do you know that the Lebanese Army has special “elite forces”? Oh, yeah. They even call them “maghawir”. The task of those elite forces is to carry Hummus cans for those behind them.
Posted on June 1, 2007 by As'ad
My aversion to the pet causes of rich kids at private schools only increases with time, perhaps because I teach real people at a state university–and I say that knowing that am the privileged products of private elite and elitist schools since infancy. But I read that students of Lebanese American University staged a campaign [...]
Posted on June 1, 2007 by As'ad
This is one of those stories that I usually read in An-Nahar newspaper, but this one is from As-Safir. A paralyzed Lebanese child was able to walk. How did the miracle happen? He says that he suddenly heard the Virgin Mary talk to him and tell him: “Throw the walker, and walk on your feet”. [...]
Posted on June 1, 2007 by As'ad
As-Safir published a public opinion survey of the Lebanese people. It showed that 77% of Druzes, 67% of Shi`ites, 85% of Sunnis, and 80% of Christians support the invasion of of the Nahr Al-Barid camp by Lebanese Army. Don’t ever trust the Lebanese “sects.”
Posted on June 1, 2007 by As'ad
You will not read this in the White Man’s press: A Syrian worker in Lebanon, Rahil Husayn Al-Muhammad (24), was injured in Haruf near Nabatiyyah by a cluster bomb that Israel left behind in Lebanon.
Posted on June 1, 2007 by As'ad
Today, Israeli occupation soldiers did what they do regularly. They killed Palestinian children.
Posted on June 1, 2007 by As'ad
Here, Lebanese Army showing its heroism by bombarding the Nahr Al-Barid refugee camp. The Lebanese, or most of them, are cheering widely. For the first time, they feel that they may have a homeland. Don’t disabuse them of their delusions.
Posted on June 1, 2007 by As'ad
No Racism. (thanks Maryam)
Posted on June 1, 2007 by As'ad