Archive for May 19, 2008
(This was before his release): “90 days after her father was detained for blogging, nine-year-old Raghad Al-Farhan sends a message to her father she has not seen since. Fouad Al-Farhan remains in detention for refusing to apologize for his writings critical of corruption and lack of freedom Saudi Arabia, where he hopes meaningful reform will [...]
Posted on May 19, 2008 by As'ad
Egyptian media only notice the American occupation of Iraq and US embrace of Israeli occupation once a year: when Bush makes a speech in which he mentions democracy–in passing always.
Posted on May 19, 2008 by As'ad
Misogyny in the Saudi Media: what MEMRI will not report. Of course, you don’t expect an Israeli (or Saudi) propaganda outfit to give a hoot about women and gender. But read this Sadatite columnist, Anis Mansur, analyzes “the problem” with women. He complains that women have lost “their feminity.” I mean, Saudi media are a [...]
Posted on May 19, 2008 by As'ad
This writer in the Hariri royal court attacks Samir `Atallah because he “hangs around” royal courts–he does not identify those royal courts because they are Saudi.
Posted on May 19, 2008 by As'ad
Nobody knows American politics more than Hariri rags. This Hariri rag, for example, reports that if Obama wins the presidency, Bush will attack Iran in the two months separating the election from inauguration.
Posted on May 19, 2008 by As'ad
Did mini-Hariri fire the commander of his militia?
Posted on May 19, 2008 by As'ad
Hamas priorities. Gaza is under siege and Hamas is busy worrying about how to ban pornographic websites.
Posted on May 19, 2008 by As'ad
You will not read this in the New York Times. A Lebanese man (Ahmad Isma`il Musa), 66, was injured by an Israeli cluster bomb in South Lebanon.
Posted on May 19, 2008 by As'ad
The venue of the Lebanese political dialogue conference in Doha, Qatar ensures its failure because Saudi Arabia would never permit Qatar to enhance its diplomatic prestige. Similarly, Syria would have ensured the failure of the conference if it was held in Saudi Arabia. Al-Akhbar is reporting that Walid Jumblat began to voice criticisms of the [...]
Posted on May 19, 2008 by As'ad
“Cardinal Sfeir was a tireless supporter of freedom and pluralism in Lebanon during that country’s tragic civil war and occupation by foreign powers. By virtue of his religious leadership, he continues to be a symbol of unity in Lebanon and a source of hope for Muslims and Christians alike.” Is this t he same Patrirach [...]
Posted on May 19, 2008 by As'ad
Ghassan Tuwayni’s columns in An-Nahar are weekly tributes to polygamous Arab kings and princes.
Posted on May 19, 2008 by As'ad
Just like Nazi Germany, Hariri propagandists in Lebanon have assembled a list of all Shi`ite-owned stores in Lebanon and are circulating the list as groups that (ostensibly) support Hizbullah and Amal. And remember that Nazi anti-Semites would try early on to camouflage their anti-Semitic boycotts with political slogans.
Posted on May 19, 2008 by As'ad
“These peasant farmers, who made up the majority of the Arab population of Palestine in 1948, did not discover that they had had a “nation†of their own until they lost it.” Excuse me Elias Khoury? Oh, no. You are woefully mistaken. All research on Palestinian nationalism indicate that the Palestinians had “discovered”–whatever that means–that [...]
Posted on May 19, 2008 by As'ad
“David Margolick should have been a little less accepting of those of Morris’s assertions that are contradicted by other Israeli historians who have written very different versions of the events of 1948 and Zionist statements and intentions. For example:…”
Posted on May 19, 2008 by As'ad
“SIR – Regarding the “separation barrierâ€, it is not a wall that Israel is building around Palestine; it is a cage. This is the first example in history of a group of people building a barrier around another group not to keep them out, but to keep them confined. Israel is treating the Palestinian people [...]
Posted on May 19, 2008 by As'ad