Archive for June 18, 2008
“Satloff is welcome to disagree with the analysis, but manufacturing a quote to make one’s point has no place in a reasoned and scholarly discussion.”
Posted on June 18, 2008 by As'ad
To Arab and Muslim supporters of Obama: he does not want your support. He has made that clear. Please leave him alone.
Posted on June 18, 2008 by As'ad
U.S. and Shi`ite Politics in Lebanon. So you all must have heard about this incident with the U.S. embassy delegation in South Lebanon. Several remarks: notice that all Western news accounts referred to the protesters as “Hizbullah supporters”. How did they know that? Did they interview them one-by-one? I saw the footage on Lebanese media [...]
Posted on June 18, 2008 by As'ad
U.S. and Shi`ite Politics in Lebanon. So you all must have heard about this incident with the U.S. embassy delegation in South Lebanon. Several remarks: notice that all Western news accounts referred to the protesters as “Hizbullah supporters”. How did they know that? Did they interview them one-by-one? I saw the footage on Lebanese media [...]
Posted on June 18, 2008 by As'ad
“For the most extensive medical study of former US detainees published so far, Physicians for Human Rights had doctors and mental health professionals examine 11 former prisoners. The group alleges finding evidence of US torture and war crimes and accuses US military health professionals of allowing the abuse of detainees, denying them medical care and [...]
Posted on June 18, 2008 by As'ad
“The U.S. military hid the locations of suspected terrorist detainees and concealed harsh treatment to avoid the scrutiny of the International Committee of the Red Cross, according to documents that a Senate committee released Tuesday.” (thanks Sellam)
Posted on June 18, 2008 by As'ad
In praise of the Saudi King in…The Independent.
Posted on June 18, 2008 by As'ad
“Zimbabwe’s voters told: choose Mugabe or you face a bullet.” Saudi voters told: You don’t exist.
Posted on June 18, 2008 by As'ad
“Zimbabwe’s voters told: choose Mugabe or you face a bullet.” Saudi voters told: You don’t exist.
Posted on June 18, 2008 by As'ad
“special activities — Activities conducted in support of national foreign policy objectives thatare planned and executed so that the role of the US Government is not apparent or acknowledged publicly. They are also functions in support of such activities but are not intended to influence US political processes, public opinion, policies, or media and do [...]
Posted on June 18, 2008 by As'ad
Nader wrote: “All parts of Joseph Massad’s review article that refer to Gannit Ankori’sbook _Palestinian Art_ have now been deleted from online versions of theFall 2007 issue of Art Journal: The College Art Association, as publisher of the journal, has written to all libraries that subscribe to Art Journal, asking them to remove the parts [...]
Posted on June 18, 2008 by As'ad
“Anthropologists have been especially outspoken about the Pentagon’s Human Terrain Teams, a two-year-old program that pairs anthropologists and other social scientists with combat units in Afghanistan and Iraq, and in which Mr. Bhatia was participating at the time of his death.”
Posted on June 18, 2008 by As'ad
The lousy and clownish secretary-general of the obsolete Arab League, Amr Mousa, said yesterday that “we shall not remain silent vis-a-vis the expansion of Israeli settlements.” Oh, you will remain silent. Go fetch a glass of water for Prince Saud Al-Faysal.
Posted on June 18, 2008 by As'ad
Adam Sandler on the Arab-Israeli Conflict. I saw the movie Zohan, and although it is a silly and stupid movie (and sometimes I enjoy silly and stupid movies) I was rather surprised that I found it to be the least offensive mainstream movie that deals with Middle East issues and with Arabs. It really tries [...]
Posted on June 18, 2008 by As'ad
“Two Muslim women at Barack Obama’s rally in Detroit on Monday were barred from sitting behind the podium by campaign volunteers seeking to prevent the women’s headscarves from appearing in photographs or on television with the candidate.” (thanks Emily)
Posted on June 18, 2008 by As'ad
“From this perspective it’s not surprising that a focus should be placed on Israel and the Palestinian plight. After all, the UN has a special responsibility for Palestine that goes back to its effort to partition the mandate for the territory in 1947. From the UN perspective this unconsummated effort to address the future of [...]
Posted on June 18, 2008 by As'ad
“Former Guantánamo detainees told McClatchy Newspapers that U.S. soldiers and interrogators mistreated the Quran in detention facilities at Bagram Air Base, Kandahar Airfield and Guantánamo. Former detainees interviewed in Jordan, Russia, Kuwait, Pakistan and Afghanistan said that from late 2001 to early 2002, soldiers at Kandahar dropped Qurans into buckets used as latrines.”
Posted on June 18, 2008 by As'ad
“The Beer Sheba Magistrate’s Court sent the two settlers suspected of assaulting Palestinians in the West Bank a week ago to a three-day house arrest.”
Posted on June 18, 2008 by As'ad
“THE GOVERNOR of Paktika has lashed out at coalition forces who he blames for the killing of innocent civilians in his province during an intense air assault on Taliban positions. Governor Akram Khupulwak said the US-led coalition had failed to warn him of the attacks, which he said killed many civilians.”
Posted on June 18, 2008 by As'ad
“Canadian soldiers serving in Afghanistan have been ordered by commanding officers “to ignore” incidents of sexual assault among the civilian population, says a military chaplain who counsels troops returning home with post-traumatic stress disorder.” (thanks Olivia)
Posted on June 18, 2008 by As'ad