Archive for June 19, 2007
Three years later: Lebanese police investigates whether a foreign domestic worker who committed suicide had been a victim of sexual abuse.
Posted on June 19, 2007 by As'ad
My article in Al-Akhbar: “In Defense of Conspiracy Theory.”(I was testing Al-Akhbar with this piece; and I was pleasantly surprised that they ran it in full.)
Posted on June 19, 2007 by As'ad
Did you see Akram Shuhayyib on LBC-TV? He has a picture of a pensive Walid Jumblat behind him. How romantic.
Posted on June 19, 2007 by As'ad
Zahir `Idu (son of the late Walid `Idu) said on LBC-TV: “May God preserve Sa`d Hariri for us.”
Posted on June 19, 2007 by As'ad
“According to the Basic Law, Abbas has violated a whole stream of Articles as well as the spirit of its checks and balances, which were designed during the Arafat era partly to limit the power of the presidency. With full US and Israel support (if not their insistence), Abbas has baldly trashed numerous provisions of [...]
Posted on June 19, 2007 by As'ad
You know what amuses me? (Here, you are supposed to say: What amuses you, o wise one?) It greatly amuses me that Zionists are still shedding tears over the invasion and occupation of Kuwait: “The Kuwaitis went through a terrible invasion and looting by Iraq in 1990-1991…” You almost get the impression that Saddam’s invasion [...]
Posted on June 19, 2007 by As'ad
“The chief architect of Sony’s PlayStation game console stepped down Tuesday” after fierce complaints and criticisms from the Jordanian King regarding the performance of PlayStation III. (thanks Ziad)
Posted on June 19, 2007 by As'ad
The Lebanese sectarian Christian, right-wing, anti-Palestinian (people), anti-Syrian (people) newspaper, An-Nahar, has this picture on its front page. Yes. So much to brag about. Such courage and such bravery. Look at the scene: this Lebanese soldier should be so proud of himself: raising that Hummus flag on the rubble of a refugee camp. This is [...]
Posted on June 19, 2007 by As'ad
Rabi`ah Az-Zayyat of NBN-TV has been a lone courageous voice in Lebanese media willing to discuss the plight of the Palestinians in Lebanon.
Posted on June 19, 2007 by As'ad
“Deputy Defense Minister Ephraim Sneh crossed over to the Palestinian side of the Erez Border Crossing in the dead of the night Sunday, in order to help Palestinians flee to Israel, Channel 10 reported Tuesday.” Oh, yeah. This was purely a humanitarian gesture. He just wanted to help “Palestinians flee.” What kindness. Some of you [...]
Posted on June 19, 2007 by As'ad
“A group of senior Fatah officials from the West Bank recently began promoting an initiative aimed at persuading Palestinian Authority Chairman Mahmoud Abbas to remove his national security adviser and associate, Mohammed Dahlan. Jailed former commander of Fatah’s Tanzim force, Marwan Barghouti, is among those urging the change. The officials, all belonging to Fatah’s Revolutionary [...]
Posted on June 19, 2007 by As'ad
Do you notice that the debate about Palestine in US newspapers this week has been taking place exclusively among Zionists from Israel and US? (Once or twice you will read a quote by Dahlan lobbiest, Ziyad Asali who wants the US to wage a propaganda campaign “for the hearts and minds of the Palestinian people”).
Posted on June 19, 2007 by As'ad
USA today explains Hamas to its readers: (It said: “The tiny, crowded Gaza (now informally dubbed Hamastan) risks becoming a terrorist center and incubator — one more blot of extremism in a region increasingly spattered with them, from Iraq to Iran to Lebanon. Although Hamas is Shiite and linked to Iran, the al- Qaeda terror [...]
Posted on June 19, 2007 by As'ad
67% of all Palestinians in the refugee camp residents in Lebanon believe that Fath-Al-Islam had received aid and support from a “Lebanese party.” Of those who answered, 41% identified Hariri (Future) camp as the culprit, according to a new poll of the refugee camps in Lebanon conducted by Ash-Sharikah Ad-Duwaliyyah.
Posted on June 19, 2007 by As'ad
This just in. New TV reports–I am not making this up–that “the [Lebanese] Army continues to advance in Nahr Al-Barid.”
Posted on June 19, 2007 by As'ad
“At the Erez Crossing in northern Gaza, Palestinians fleeing the Hamas takeover waited to be allowed to cross through Israel to the West Bank.” These are not “Palestinians fleeing”…These are Dahlan gangsters fleeing. They remind me of Israel’s humiliating withdrawal from South Lebanon in 2000 when the torturers of South Lebanon Army fled to Israel [...]
Posted on June 19, 2007 by As'ad
“The current wave of US party programs in the Middle East, however, largely follows a multiparty method in which all legally registered parties in a country are invited to participate. Two exceptions are in Lebanon and Palestine where due to US legal restrictions, US party programs do not include Hizbullah and Hamas. Where assistance is [...]
Posted on June 19, 2007 by As'ad
“How troublesome the Muslims of the Middle East are. First, we demand that the Palestinians embrace democracy and then they elect the wrong party – Hamas – and then Hamas wins a mini-civil war and presides over the Gaza Strip. And we Westerners still want to negotiate with the discredited President, Mahmoud Abbas….All over the [...]
Posted on June 19, 2007 by As'ad
Papal Fatwawawas for drivers: “38. Drivers on the road should be fully aware, without dreading such a situation, that an accident may occur at any time. Despite the generally high quality of today’s roads in developed countries, it is foolish to drive “thoughtlessly†as if such dangers did not exist. Our attitude when driving should [...]
Posted on June 19, 2007 by As'ad
Look at the kind of insights that Fouad Ajami writes about the Middle East (and the kind of “insights” that are welcomed in the US press): “Nablus in the West Bank is no more amenable to reason than is Gaza.” Can you imagine of somebody writes that “Mexico is no more amenable to reason than [...]
Posted on June 19, 2007 by As'ad