Archive for March 6, 2008

The owner of Al-Arabiya (an in-law of King Fahd) tells the story of naming Al-Arabiya TV. As usual, the name was in response to…AlJazeera.

Posted on March 6, 2008 by As'ad

An Ethiopian maid, 32, died by hanging in the house of her employer in `Ayn Sa`adah outside of Beirut. As usual, Lebanese police will NOT investigate.

Posted on March 6, 2008 by As'ad

`Ali Zuhur, 22, was injured by an Israeli cluster bomb in Yuhmur in Lebanon. (Al-Mustaqbal)

Posted on March 6, 2008 by As'ad

“King Abdullah University of Science and Technology, the ambitious $10-billion research institution that Saudi Arabia plans to open in 2009, announced on Tuesday that it had signed agreements with Stanford University and the University of California at Berkeley to help it design an academic curriculum and hire faculty members.” Both Berkeley and Stanford promised to [...]

Posted on March 6, 2008 by As'ad

I can reveal this to my readers (from a “reliable” source in Beirut): when Najat Sharaf Ad-Din of Future News TV (Hariri TV), hosted Norman Finkelstein for an interview (which was later promoted by MEMRI), Sa`d Hariri called Sharaf Ad-Din and protested against the interview. He called and complained that Finkelstein is “anti-American.” Ironic for [...]

Posted on March 6, 2008 by As'ad

For International Women’s Day, comrade Rami pays a tribute to a woman from Gaza.

Posted on March 6, 2008 by As'ad

Did Angry Arab not tell you? Did I not tell you that Wafa’ Sultan did the show on AlJazeera just for the MEMRI audience? From her own perspective, she lost the Arab audience in the first few minutes. But it did not matter: it was clear that she was doing it for MEMRI. Did I [...]

Posted on March 6, 2008 by As'ad

Hannah Arendt (to Zionists): ” All hopes to the contrary notwithstanding, it seems as though the ONE argument the Arabs are incapable of understanding is force.” (“Peace or Armistice in the Near East?” in Review of Politics (January 1950), p. 56).

Posted on March 6, 2008 by As'ad

It has been a few weeks since the Western press has reported on the movement of Ariel Sharon’s toe. Are you not worried, o Western readers?

Posted on March 6, 2008 by As'ad

It is a surge. It is a surge…of oil. “Iraq in Talks With American and European Companies to Develop 5 New Oil Fields.”

Posted on March 6, 2008 by As'ad

“Mirvat Abu Shbak, 34, Muhammad’s wife, stayed behind with their five children. The two eldest — Jacqueline, 17, and Iyad, 16 — were killed in the incursion, and Mirvat insists they were shot by an Israeli sniper. “We were sleeping at midnight when there was a lot of shooting,” she said, in a room of [...]

Posted on March 6, 2008 by As'ad

This is how pro-Saudi advocates speak in Saudi media: I believe in objectivity and rationality and not in slogans. So let me say this: Long live the Saudi King. With blood, with spirit, I shall sacrifice myself for you, O king.

Posted on March 6, 2008 by As'ad

“But conversations with several sources who are familiar with the affair indicate that Risen has been asked to testify as part of an investigation aimed at revealing who leaked apparently confidential information about the planning of secret Central Intelligence Agency and Mossad missions concerning Iran’s nuclear program.” Personally, I believe that those leaks were actually [...]

Posted on March 6, 2008 by As'ad

“Thousands of girls around the world are not attending school through fear of physical attack or sexual abuse by teachers and fellow pupils, an Amnesty International report claimed today. The report, Safe schools – every girl’s right, found that girls frequently faced harassment, violence and intimidation by strangers on their way to school and in [...]

Posted on March 6, 2008 by As'ad

“Palestinians in the Gaza Strip are living through their worst humanitarian crisis since the 1967 war because of the severe restrictions imposed by Israel since the Islamist movement Hamas seized power, a report says today. Movement is all but impossible and supplies of food and water, sewage treatment and basic healthcare can no longer be [...]

Posted on March 6, 2008 by As'ad

Even in the British press: dead Israeli soldiers get more coverage than dead Palestinian babies.

Posted on March 6, 2008 by As'ad