Archive for August 10, 2007
Did I not tell you last week that when Nayif Hawatimah makes an appearance you know that there is something rotten in the air: “In an interview to Channel 1 aired Thursday evening, Hawatmeh said that he was the first leader of a terror organization to propose making peace with Israel or to endorse a [...]
Posted on August 10, 2007 by As'ad
Conspiracy? What conspiracy? Sleaze and Vulgarism website, Elaph is promoting its long forthcoming interview with Fouad Ajami and–brace yourselves–he has words of praise for…House of Saud. No. No way.
Posted on August 10, 2007 by As'ad
An account of the famous Tea Party in the Marji`yun Barracks (also known as Ahmad Fatfat’s Day)
Posted on August 10, 2007 by As'ad
Ibrahim Al-Amin provides a detailed account of the negotiations in Lebanon during the Israeli war on Lebanon.
Posted on August 10, 2007 by As'ad
“Mahmoud Abbas’ war against the Palestinian people” by dear friend Ali.
Posted on August 10, 2007 by As'ad
Lebanonesia is still celebrating the destruction of the Nahr Al-Barid refugee camp.
Posted on August 10, 2007 by As'ad
“As the U.S. struggles with a sagging public image in many Latin American countries, American adults show a stunning ignorance about the region, a new Zogby Interactive poll shows. Only 10% of online poll respondents said they were familiar with Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva, the second-term president of Brazil, South America’s largest country. And [...]
Posted on August 10, 2007 by As'ad
These are the reforms that Rice has been praising in Egypt: “Egyptian authorities have detained two Coptic Christian activists suspected of posting anti-Islamic messages on a Christian website.”
Posted on August 10, 2007 by As'ad
“An overwhelming majority of articles (55%) explicitly blamed Hezbollah for starting or causing the war. Only 11 percent of the articles blamed Israel, and 9 percent blamed both sides equally. Interestingly, the rest of the articles blamed Iran (9%), Syria (8%) or the United States (5%). Articles that blamed Hezbollah tended to also blame Iran [...]
Posted on August 10, 2007 by As'ad
“The contract “of welcome and integration” has been mandatory since January for all people from outside the European Union applying for long-stay visas, except for students and seasonal workers. It is part of a package of immigration rules known as the “Sarkozy law,” passed in July 2006, when Nicolas Sarkozy, now the president, was interior [...]
Posted on August 10, 2007 by As'ad
I was so touched reading this that I actually cried: (notice how sharp Lebanonese diplomats are):“ Remarks Secretary of State Condoleezza RiceAnd Lebanese Chargé d’Affaires Antoine Chedid Before Their MeetingAugust 9, 2007Washington, D.C.SECRETARY RICE: Well, it’s a real pleasure to receive you on behalf of the Democratic Government of Lebanon and I very much look [...]
Posted on August 10, 2007 by As'ad
“”In fact, all previous peace initiatives have got nowhere for a reason that neither Bush nor the EU has had the political courage to acknowledge. That reason is the consensus reached long ago by Israel’s decision-making elites that Israel will never allow the emergence of a Palestinian state which denies it effective military and economic [...]
Posted on August 10, 2007 by As'ad
“Many thought Jordan would be a stop on the way to Australia or Sweden, or a brief vacation from Baghdad’s inferno. But as the months wore on, it became clear that most countries were closed to Iraqis, the war was only getting worse, and families were left stranded, burning through their savings. The Australian authorities [...]
Posted on August 10, 2007 by As'ad
This is hilarious. The US ambassador in Lebanon, during a tour of the Shuf with Walid Jumblat, announced a program to fund the repair and expansion of Druze religous houses of worship. Is that even legal–according to US laws?
Posted on August 10, 2007 by As'ad
“Saudi Arabia follows a strict interpretation of Islam under which those convicted of murder, drug trafficking, rape and armed robbery are executed in public with a sword. Tuesday’s execution brought to 102 the number of people beheaded in the kingdom this year, according to an Associated Press count. Saudi Arabia beheaded 38 people last year [...]
Posted on August 10, 2007 by As'ad
““It’s the kiss of death,†said Turki al-Rasheed, a Saudi reformer who watched last Sunday’s elections closely. “The minute you are counted on or backed by the Americans, kiss it goodbye, you will never win. Mr. Nassif added, “Since then, every time the Americans interfere, it ends in a war or in their expulsion.— (thanks Yasmine)
Posted on August 10, 2007 by As'ad
“In a further sign of the United States’ growing diversity, nonwhites now make up a majority in almost one-third of the most-populous counties in the country and in nearly one in 10 of all 3,100 counties, according to an analysis of census results to be released today.” (thanks Ema)
Posted on August 10, 2007 by As'ad
“”This (media influence) has played a role in opening up the Arab world and revealing the falseness of some ideologies such as Arab nationalism, the Left and political Islam,” he added, listing populist political movements that the Saudi royals have long regarded as threats to their rule.” Quite inaccurate. Saudi government never treated political Islam [...]
Posted on August 10, 2007 by As'ad
PLO (read Fath) representative in Lebanon, Abbas Zaki, actually said that what Fath-Al-Islam has done in Lebanon has caused a nakbah worse than the 1948 nakbah (he actually said that in the original Arabic statement). (thank Lucy)
Posted on August 10, 2007 by As'ad