Archive for April 14, 2008

“Magic and quackery” in Lebanon. In Lebanon? Are you kidding me? The land of science and rationality? Did they not invent the science of Tabbulah there?

Posted on April 14, 2008 by As'ad

“Under the heading “Standing with Israel against terrorism,” Clinton’s official policy paper, released last September and currently touted on her campaign website, states, “Hillary Clinton believes that Israel’s right to exist in safety as a Jewish state, with defensible borders and an undivided Jerusalem as its capital, secure from violence and terrorism, must never be [...]

Posted on April 14, 2008 by As'ad

Help. I am using the new version of Word 2007 on Vista. Two questions:why when I sometimes try to save a document, it tells me that it is a “read only” document when I have saved it before? Second, why when I insert a page number, the area is greyed in for a few minutes [...]

Posted on April 14, 2008 by As'ad

“Dozens of Egyptians injured during last week’s demonstrations in the industrial city of Mahalla are being kept illegally handcuffed to their hospital beds, an Egyptian rights group said last night.”

Posted on April 14, 2008 by As'ad

“Human rights watchdogs, including Amnesty International and Human Rights Watch, have accused the authorities of torture and beatings inside Jordan’s prisons. They say that holding inmates for long periods without outside contact, trial or charges paves the way to abuses. Jordan says there is no systematic abuse.”

Posted on April 14, 2008 by As'ad

My article in Al-Adab magazine: “On this Suspicious Silence: Contradictions of Arab Liberalism” (starts on p. 126 of the magazine)

Posted on April 14, 2008 by As'ad

Baqir Ibrahim on the Iraqi Communist Party and Fakhri Karim.

Posted on April 14, 2008 by As'ad

Who does James Zogby speak for? “Palestinian National Authority President Mahmoud Abbas to Address Kahlil Gibran “Spirit of Humanity” Awards Gala on April 23.” (thanks Bilal)

Posted on April 14, 2008 by As'ad

“Eight out of 10 Arabs have an unfavorable view of the United States and only six percent believe the U.S. troop build-up in Iraq in the last year has worked, said a poll of six Arab countries released on Monday…Over 80 percent of respondents identified the Arab-Israeli conflict as a key issue but just over [...]

Posted on April 14, 2008 by As'ad

“A car belonging to the Saudi Arabian Embassy in Greece was destroyed in an arson attack early Monday, police said. Small cooking gas canisters exploded underneath the parked vehicle in a northern suburb of the capital. No one was injured. An anarchist group calling itself Cells of Subversion claimed responsibility for the attack in a [...]

Posted on April 14, 2008 by As'ad

“Their bill also would require that Baghdad pay for the fuel used by American troops and take over U.S. payments to predominantly Sunni fighters in the Awakening movement.” (thanks Joey)

Posted on April 14, 2008 by As'ad

“Daniel Nassif: “We Do Not Spread Propaganda for the United States”” MEQ: Do you have a Jerusalem correspondent?Nassif: Yes, and he travels with the prime minister of Israel all the time.

Posted on April 14, 2008 by As'ad

“But in two days of exhaustive testimony before the House and Senate, the top U.S. commander in Iraq said conspicuously little about democracy in that nation. That’s because, without saying so publicly, U.S. war planners have moved further from those idealistic goals. They are now pursuing a strategy aimed at a more modest outcome, one [...]

Posted on April 14, 2008 by As'ad

“But at present, U.S. forces are too pleased by the sharp drop in jihadist attacks to lose sleep over things like gender issues. “They’re going to find their own level about what is acceptable,” says Col. Martin Stanton, one of the Sahwa program’s U.S. coordinators. “In terms of what they’re doing within their own culture, [...]

Posted on April 14, 2008 by As'ad

This sums Jimmy Carter for me: ““The most important single foreign policy goal in my life has been to bring peace to Israel.”

Posted on April 14, 2008 by As'ad

“Now, by trying to prevent another terrorist haven like Afghanistan from developing, America may have helped create another Iraq, this one in the volatile Horn of Africa. “Every year this fighting continues, the situation worsens,” says Deputy Prime Minister Ahmed Abdul Salaam of Somalia’s Transitional Federal Government. The Islamists’ eviction in 2006 left a power [...]

Posted on April 14, 2008 by As'ad