Archive for June 16, 2007
This proves my theory: that the Hariri family is capable of inflicting harm on several Arab countries simultaneously. “Hariri’s plans call for the sprawling Red Sea megacity to be powered by solar energy and wind farms. A golf course and yacht club are in the works, along with residential estates and vacation villas. Cheap Saudi [...]
Posted on June 16, 2007 by As'ad
This is the funniest column that I have read. Here, the editor-in-chief of the newspaper of Prince Salman bin `Abdul-`Aziz criticizes those Arab media that are not “neutral” or “professional.” He also is shocked that there are media in the Arab world that are loyal to a foreign government, like Iran. He forgot to add [...]
Posted on June 16, 2007 by As'ad
The best explanation I have ever heard of why the Hariri camp was aligned with Syrian intelligence in Lebanon for more than 25 years. Basim As-Sab` (a Hariri deputy who used to write for As-Safir although he can’t write and can’t speak and represents a district in the southern suburbs that he is afraid of [...]
Posted on June 16, 2007 by As'ad
Did you see Mu`ammar Al-Qadhdhafi on Al-Jazeera? The man is clearly not well (mentally speaking). Most incoherent. He also has a nimble mind and yet treats himself as an intellectual with deep thoughts. He also frequently cites himself from “the Green book.” But the best part of the program was watching Sami Haddad mocking him [...]
Posted on June 16, 2007 by As'ad
A glowing profile of a lobbyist that “the West can do business with” (oh, and he can use emails–White Man was impressed): ” The Kurdish rumor mill has it that Jalal Talabani may soon wish to recall Qubad to Kurdistan to groom him for a political future there. Qubad was equal parts diplomat and good [...]
Posted on June 16, 2007 by As'ad
Fruits of “liberation”: “Shanty towns mushroom in Iraq”Let me try to rehash the Bush Doctrine for you. So basically, the assumption was that Iraq would form such an exemplary model for all the Arabs and Muslims, that all the peoples would clamor and firmly request to copy the Iraq model. Is that right? So…how did [...]
Posted on June 16, 2007 by As'ad
“Europe’s Christian Comeback” (thanks Laleh)
Posted on June 16, 2007 by As'ad
Sa’ib `Urayqat said today: “We are the law.” Does that mean that Muhammad Dahlan is “the decency and transparency”?
Posted on June 16, 2007 by As'ad
A source in Lebanon explains to me why Hizbullah has been avoiding criticizing Saudi Arabia or even the Hariri family in Lebanon (they only criticize Ja`ja` (Ga`ga` in Egyptian accent) and Jumblat (Gunblat in Egyptian accent). I am told that Hizbullah reached an understanding with King `Abdullah a few months ago, and that the king [...]
Posted on June 16, 2007 by As'ad
“In Washington, State Department spokesman Sean McCormack described Fayyad, Abbas’ new prime minister, as “a person that the international community has long experience with, has great confidence in.—
Posted on June 16, 2007 by As'ad
“”He said to me: Stand on your feet. I felt that my legs were cold, like pins and needles in the legs. I said: I can’t. He said: Now you are paralyzed. I said: I guess I am. He said: That is what we promised you and that is what you want.”” (thanks Yasmine)
Posted on June 16, 2007 by As'ad
“The General’s Report: How Antonio Taguba, who investigated the Abu Ghraib scandal, became one of its casualties”
Posted on June 16, 2007 by As'ad
“The question of whether a Denver girl was cured by a miracle courtesy of an 18th century missionary priest is now in the hands of the Vatican. The Denver Archdiocese has wrapped up its part of an investigation into whether Father Junipero Serra intervened to save Kayla Rebecca Kellog from severe birth defects before she [...]
Posted on June 16, 2007 by As'ad
The Shame of Lebanese Media. A courageous Western reporter in Lebanon sent me this:“trying to follow up the story of the routine torture of palestinian men by the lebanese military intelligence but that the lebanese media is pretty much ignoring the story altogether as they are too busy cheering on the lebanese army..” that press [...]
Posted on June 16, 2007 by As'ad
“It was, for many Palestinians, a confusing and unaccustomed sight: black-hooded and normally disciplined Hamas fighters, seemingly driven by devotion to God, stripping away chandeliers, carpets, a bathtub — earthly goods but also symbols of what many see as Fatah’s corruption and excess. After the fighters left, poor people with donkey carts arrived, sweeping up [...]
Posted on June 16, 2007 by As'ad
Correction. Caoimhe Butterly is actually with Voices in the Wilderness and not Human Rights Watch. (This is about the press conference in Baddawi refugee camp yesterday).
Posted on June 16, 2007 by As'ad
You have to read this article by Hazim Saghiyyah: more than any other Arab writer, he internalizes the racism of the most vulgar of classical Orientalist cliches–he was the one who early in the Bush administration called on Arabs–from the podium of the Washington Institute for Near East Policy no less–to “internalize” the democratic advocacy [...]
Posted on June 16, 2007 by As'ad
Øين تذكّر Ø£Øمد الØاج أخطاء عبد الناصر
كان من الضروري، ÙˆÙقاً للاØتÙاليّة الظاهرة التي راÙقت تذكّر الإعلام السعودي لذكرى 1967ØŒ وذلك للتشÙÙŠ من عبد الناصر (وخصوصاً أنّ آل سعود تهيّبوه ÙÙŠ Øياته) وبثّ Ùكر الهزيمة، أن تكرّس Øلقات خاصة للØديث باستÙاضة عن أخطاء عبد الناصر، وذلك للتدليل على Øكمة آل سعود وبÙعد نظرهم. ÙˆÙقاً لهذه الخطّة (أرجو أن Ø£Ùعَدّ من المؤمنين بنظرية [...]
Posted on June 16, 2007 by admin