Archive for August 30, 2007

When Zionist hoodlums can’t find dirt on somebody, they just make them up. This writer on National Review website falsely claimed that I referred to Giuliani by an anti-Semitic slur. This is the post (from Harper’s) in question.

Posted by As'ad at 11:56 PM 08/30/07

“In the initial IDF statement after the incident on Tuesday, the army said it “wishes to express sorrow” for the “use of children in terror attacks,” implying that the children had been sent by terrorists to collect the rocket launchers. The military has frequently accused terrorist organizations of using teenagers and children in this fashion. [...]

Posted by As'ad at 10:58 PM 08/30/07

To my surprise, an article in Saudi sleaze site, Elaph, revealed that it is banned in…Saudi Arabia (and Iran and Syria).

Posted by As'ad at 10:51 PM 08/30/07

“Tarcov had always found the link between Strauss and the neocons suspect, but now he had some hard and fast evidence to present to the world that what the neocons said they took from Strauss was not actually there to take. Perhaps in their vanity they’d embraced Strauss’s exoteric discussion of the “noble lie” as [...]

Posted by As'ad at 10:27 PM 08/30/07

“The first, about Bechtel, illustrates just how nicely these firms have done. Of Bechtel’s 24 sewage, water treatment and electricity projects, only 11, as Sigir puts it, have ‘clearly met their original objectives’. Sigir discovered that, despite this, Bechtel has been quick to submit its invoices, amounting to some $1.3 billion, [...]

Posted by As'ad at 10:11 PM 08/30/07

Conspiracy? What conspiracy? “Allawi Gets a Baathist Endorsement” (thanks E)

Posted by As'ad at 10:09 PM 08/30/07

“The Arab affairs editor for the Israeli newsaper Ha’aretz, Danny Rubenstein, told participants at a United Nations conference in Brussels Thursday that Israel is an apartheid state.” (thanks Regan)

Posted by As'ad at 10:01 PM 08/30/07

“An Israeli company is installing sophisticated blast protection equipment at Kabul’s new airport as the US Army seeks to protect the airport from missiles and car bomb attacks.”

Posted by As'ad at 10:00 PM 08/30/07

“A source at al-Hayat’s office in Riyadh said the government had been upset by recent columns criticising the agriculture ministry’s handling of the mysterious death of some 2,000 camels – so far blamed on poisoning rather than an infectious disease – and articles critical of the health ministry following the death of a young girl [...]

Posted by As'ad at 9:56 PM 08/30/07

Kamal Khalaf At-Tawil on the “beginning of American collapse” in Iraq.

Posted by As'ad at 9:45 PM 08/30/07

With Ahmad Sa`dat in Israel jail, Israel and Abu Mazen were able to steer the PFLP in the Dahlan direction.

Posted by As'ad at 9:29 PM 08/30/07

AlArabiya TV is already advertising for a forthcoming “documentary” on the Saudi King. It should be quite objective, no? I mean, from what I saw, his brothers and nephews the princes are all interviewed.

Posted by As'ad at 9:28 PM 08/30/07

When the Mufti of Lebanon speaks, clerics…doze off. (thanks F.) (Dalati and Nahra)

Posted by As'ad at 9:23 PM 08/30/07

Today, I had secular nostalgia. I remember reading that Muhammad `Abdul-Wahab planned to put the entire Qur’an to music back in the 1940s and 1950s.

Posted by As'ad at 9:19 PM 08/30/07

He prayed that Bush keeps him as puppet prime minister.

Posted by As'ad at 9:17 PM 08/30/07

Israeli occupation soldiers stripped them and arrested them. (AFP)

Posted by As'ad at 9:15 PM 08/30/07

An excellent “interrogation” of Human Rights Watch’s Sarah Leah Whitson in Al-Akhbar.

Posted by As'ad at 9:13 PM 08/30/07

Joseph writes on the division of Palestine and the Palestinians.

Posted by As'ad at 9:09 PM 08/30/07

Human Rights Watch is shocked that the Arab people don’t admire the Zionist bias of the organization. Just shocked.

Posted by As'ad at 9:03 PM 08/30/07

Families of of Lebanese and Palestinian prisoners in Syrian jails held a press conference in Lebanon yesterday.

Posted by As'ad at 9:01 PM 08/30/07

“Lebanese perfect the art of torturing, stealing [from], and raping Sri Lankan [female]workers”. (As-Safir).

Posted by As'ad at 8:27 PM 08/30/07

It is really bothering me a lot: Arab media keep mispronouncing the name of the new Turkish president. It is Abdullah Gül and not gul (as in pool). It is üüüüüüüüü. And Angry Arab likes the sound of it too.

Posted by As'ad at 10:05 AM 08/30/07

“A 10-year-old Palestinian girl and two boys, 10 and 12, were killed by Israeli fire in northern Gaza.”

Posted by As'ad at 9:51 AM 08/30/07

They dared to speak Arabic on a plane: “All passengers on an American Airlines redeye flight to Chicago were ordered off a plane after complaints about a group of Arabic-speaking men.” (thanks Amina)

Posted by As'ad at 9:18 AM 08/30/07

Munir told me that when (the now defunct) Al-Mustaqbal magazine decided to publish the memoirs of Kamal Jumblat in the late 1970s, Walid Jumblat intervened to censor his criticisms of the Syrian regime. (Munir was a witness to the negotiations).

Posted by As'ad at 9:14 AM 08/30/07

“Since May, charges against two infantrymen and a Marine officer have been dismissed, and dismissal has been recommended for murder charges against a third infantryman. Prosecutors were not able to prove even that the killings violated the American military code of justice.”

Posted by As'ad at 9:08 AM 08/30/07

So why is Salam Fayyad a Palestinian puppet prime minister? Well, it is true that he received 2.4% of the votes (on his list with Hanan Ashrawi) but “The Israelis like Fayyad.”

Posted by As'ad at 9:07 AM 08/30/07

The New York Times says: “Abu Ghraib Swept Under the Carpet”

Posted by As'ad at 9:05 AM 08/30/07

The New York Times wants you to hate Muslims but not innocent Seikh people: “Although Sikhism has nothing to do with Islam, its members often suffer from anti-Muslim sentiment because their turbans lend them a superficial resemblance to men like the Ayatollah Ruhollah Khomeini of Iran and Osama bin Laden. They say law enforcement officers [...]

Posted by As'ad at 9:02 AM 08/30/07

Today, Human Rights Watch is releasing a new report. It will hold the Palestinians in Gaza and West Bank responsible for allowing Israeli bullets into the bodies.

Posted by As'ad at 9:00 AM 08/30/07

Really strange article by the BBC; as if it was planted by the Israeli embassy. Does the BBC need a list of the tens of Lebanese and Palestinians who have died from wounds caused by Israeli fire in the same period? (thanks David)

Posted by As'ad at 8:59 AM 08/30/07

There is no coverage whatsoever in the Western or Arabic press of the displacement and harassment of Palestinians in Iraq at the hands of Shi`ite sectarian militias. The New TV had a report the other day but only because Angelina Jolie was visiting them.

Posted by As'ad at 8:57 AM 08/30/07

“The undeclared war on Arab cuisine” (thanks Yasmine)

Posted by As'ad at 8:56 AM 08/30/07

“Israeli soccer fans filmed cursing Prophet Muhammad” (thanks Xeres and Sophie)

Posted by As'ad at 8:54 AM 08/30/07