Archive for May 6, 2008
This must be the most generous nation on earth. Do you notice how small the aid that Israel, ever so rarely, gives to other countries? Here, Israel brags that it gave $100,000 worth of band aids to Myanmar.
Posted on May 6, 2008 by As'ad
Another part of Bassam Abu Sharif’s biography of Arafat: A Lousy Man on a Lousy Man. Indira Ghandi on lousy Yaser `Arafat: “The problem of chairman Arafat is that he relies a lot on, and trusts too much, the countries of Arabia and the gulf. He should be careful and be prudent. They just don’t [...]
Posted on May 6, 2008 by As'ad
Thus spoke John Bolton. “Mr Bolton said that striking Iran would represent a major step towards victory in Iraq.” He added that striking Syria, would represent a major step toward victory in Afghanistan. And striking Venezuela would represent a step toward victory in Somalia. And striking Gaza would represent a step toward victory in West [...]
Posted on May 6, 2008 by As'ad
Hariri billionaires for the Working Class. “Beirut’s densely populated Tariq Jedideh district, a stronghold for Saad Hariri’s Mustaqbal Movement, declared opposition for a demonstration called by the opposition-backed Labor Union for Wednesday.” It said that the demonstration ““does not reflect interest of the working class.” (thanks Shant)
Posted on May 6, 2008 by As'ad
“Amnesty International said today that Ethiopian troops who support the Somalian government, which is backed by the UN, were killing civilians, slitting people’s throats and gang-raping women.” Supported by UN? Is another new way to refer to US? (thanks Nir)
Posted on May 6, 2008 by As'ad
“Polish authorities charged the Kuwaiti ambassador’s son Tuesday with briefly abducting three Jewish teenagers at a hotel and claiming he had a bomb, police said.”
Posted on May 6, 2008 by As'ad
Al-Arabiya TV is really “fair and balanced.” The news broadcast started by referring to the last decision by the Hariri government as “the Lebanese government exercising its sovereignty.” Sovereignty? Is this like like Dahlan sovereignty?
Posted on May 6, 2008 by As'ad
“The statements that there was “no massacre at Deir Yassin” and that “no one has ever found evidence of an ideology of ethnic cleansing of the Palestinians” (Letters, May 2) cannot be allowed to stand. Ilan Pappe’s The Ethnic Cleansing of Palestine is meticulously researched and referenced, citing Israeli and Zionist material as well as [...]
Posted on May 6, 2008 by As'ad
Who did Robert Worth talk to in Kuwait? Sometimes I really want to meet the Arabs that New York Times correspondents talk to? So this is it? This is why Arabs are unhappy with their governments? It is not about corruption, nepotism, oppression, torture, subservience to US? So it is all about the slow pace [...]
Posted on May 6, 2008 by As'ad
I do not wish to link to Elaph website. But the Saudi website of sleaze, reaction, and Zionism has an article giving advice to women on ensuring that their baby is born male. It said eating breakfasts can guarantee that.
Posted on May 6, 2008 by As'ad
A rare picture of the last four Saudi kings dancing. Dancing without the stars.
Posted on May 6, 2008 by As'ad
“He skims lightly over the critical role that the Iraq war played in shaping America’s current problems on the world stage (he himself supported the effort to oust Saddam Hussein and wrote in March of 2003 that the war “will look better when it is over†and weapons of mass destruction are found).”
Posted on May 6, 2008 by As'ad
Let me try to explain to you the new US plan in Lebanon. The same geniuses who cooked up the invasion of Iraq are cooking something for Lebanon now. Basically, they have assigned the task of disarming Hizbullah to the Hariri family, in the wake of Israeli failure to disarm it. That makes sense. OK. [...]
Posted on May 6, 2008 by As'ad
Comrade Khalid’s satirical take on the Sanyurah’s plan.
Posted on May 6, 2008 by As'ad
For those who don’t care, there is an interview with me on the 60th anniversary of An-Nakhbah in JO magazine (published in Amman, Jordan). Today, AlArabiya TV referred to the “60th anniversary of the formation of the state of Israel.” Those house of Saud: they are on a roll, as of late. MEMRI is very [...]
Posted on May 6, 2008 by As'ad
The scenario of Muhammad Dahlan in Gaza is now being repeated by Dahlan’s clone in Lebanon, Fu’ad Sanyurah. But don’t the Americans and the Dahlans remember how the Dahlan plot in Gaza turned out?
Posted on May 6, 2008 by As'ad
A Saudi columnist in Prince Salman’s mouthpiece, Ash-Sharq Al-Awsat, states that resisting Israel is akin to committing a holocaust. But what I find curious is that Hizbullah is still avoiding to utter one word of criticisms of Saudi Arabia. Hizbullah may still harbor the foolish notion of Saudi neutrality in Lebanon. They would be the [...]
Posted on May 6, 2008 by As'ad