Archive for January 3, 2008
The Clinton attack machine will now claim that Sen. Obama has pledged to ask Mahmoud Ahmadinajad to be his running mate if he wins the nomination.
Posted on January 3, 2008 by As'ad
“Israeli Prime Minister Ehud Olmert said Tuesday that he is grateful for President Hosni Mubarak’s leadership of neighboring Egypt and prays for him daily.”
Posted on January 3, 2008 by As'ad
You get used to certain things in the US and you don’t find them elsewhere. Like, where are the berries’ juices and the pomegranate juices here? Where? Find them and bring them to me NOW.
Posted on January 3, 2008 by As'ad
I am in my London Hotel: woke up at 1:00AM fully refreshed and rested. And I hear a tune in the background: it is from a distance and somebody is singing with a heavy British accent. Wait: I think that I can recognize the words. I think it goes like this: “And From the Window…”
Posted on January 3, 2008 by As'ad
“Benazir Bhutto was admired by the West but despised by many of her compatriots.” (thanks May)
Posted on January 3, 2008 by As'ad
Rami is right: when it comes to social justice, March 8 and March 14th in Lebanon are indistinguishable.
Posted on January 3, 2008 by As'ad
I now introduce you to a religious kook from Yemen: “Brothers also should take action regarding their sisters’ behavior, especially if their parents are too old or dead. If a daughter or sister makes a mistake – especially a moral one – that negatively affects the entire family and its reputation, what’s the solution by [...]
Posted on January 3, 2008 by As'ad
Kooky Lebanonese news update. As if I don’t have my jet lag to deal with, I heard Marcel Ghanim say on LBC-TV that he will host next week Michel `Ubayd “who discovered a cure for cancer.” I kid you not. It was on Kalam An-Nas. And how come those successive Lebanese discoveries of cure for [...]
Posted on January 3, 2008 by As'ad
“Lantos has visited Israel 68 times, making one wonder whether his constituency is in San Mateo or Tel Aviv.” (thanks Yasmine)
Posted on January 3, 2008 by As'ad
“You think we Christians are shaking in our ghettos in Gaza? That we’re going to beg you British or the Americans or the Vatican to rescue us?” he asked.” (thanks Asa)
Posted on January 3, 2008 by As'ad
A light unto what? Who are you kidding: “Israel now worships the golden calf of the free market: privatization and sink-or-swim competition, what British Prime Minster Edward Heath once called the “ugly face of capitalism.†The country’s economy is under the influence of a handful of families who, like robber barons, rob public assets, utilities [...]
Posted on January 3, 2008 by As'ad
Children as victims in the Arab-Israeli conflict. (thanks John)
Posted on January 3, 2008 by As'ad
Segev on 67. On the way to London, I was read Tom Segev’s massive history of the year 1967 in Israel–did I mention how much I hate the filthy and inconvenient airport in London? But it is typical Segev: he is good to expose the racism of Israelis against other Israelis–the Mezrahim–but the Palestinians are [...]
Posted on January 3, 2008 by As'ad
“Returning Iraqis face lack of services, property disputes”. (thanks Laleh)
Posted on January 3, 2008 by As'ad
“To economists, 32 is even more special, because it measures the difference in lifestyles between the first world and the developing world. The average rates at which people consume resources like oil and metals, and produce wastes like plastics and greenhouse gases, are about 32 times higher in North America, Western Europe, Japan and Australia [...]
Posted on January 3, 2008 by As'ad
Who but the New York Times can put a positive spin on Israeli killing of Palestinian minors? “A report by Btselem, an Israeli human rights group, said Israeli security forces killed 373 Palestinians in 2007, 290 of them in Gaza and 83 in the West Bank, 53 among them minors. In 2006, 657 Palestinians were [...]
Posted on January 3, 2008 by As'ad