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 on August 30, 2007 by As'ad
“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 on August 30, 2007 by As'ad
To my surprise, an article in Saudi sleaze site, Elaph, revealed that it is banned in…Saudi Arabia (and Iran and Syria).
Posted on August 30, 2007 by As'ad
“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 on August 30, 2007 by As'ad
“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, and that they have [...]
Posted on August 30, 2007 by As'ad
Conspiracy? What conspiracy? “Allawi Gets a Baathist Endorsement” (thanks E)
Posted on August 30, 2007 by As'ad
“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 on August 30, 2007 by As'ad
“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 on August 30, 2007 by As'ad
“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 on August 30, 2007 by As'ad
Kamal Khalaf At-Tawil on the “beginning of American collapse” in Iraq.
Posted on August 30, 2007 by As'ad
With Ahmad Sa`dat in Israel jail, Israel and Abu Mazen were able to steer the PFLP in the Dahlan direction.
Posted on August 30, 2007 by As'ad
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 on August 30, 2007 by As'ad
When the Mufti of Lebanon speaks, clerics…doze off. (thanks F.) (Dalati and Nahra)
Posted on August 30, 2007 by As'ad
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 on August 30, 2007 by As'ad
He prayed that Bush keeps him as puppet prime minister.
Posted on August 30, 2007 by As'ad
Israeli occupation soldiers stripped them and arrested them. (AFP)
Posted on August 30, 2007 by As'ad
An excellent “interrogation” of Human Rights Watch’s Sarah Leah Whitson in Al-Akhbar.
Posted on August 30, 2007 by As'ad
Joseph writes on the division of Palestine and the Palestinians.
Posted on August 30, 2007 by As'ad
Human Rights Watch is shocked that the Arab people don’t admire the Zionist bias of the organization. Just shocked.
Posted on August 30, 2007 by As'ad
Families of of Lebanese and Palestinian prisoners in Syrian jails held a press conference in Lebanon yesterday.
Posted on August 30, 2007 by As'ad