Archive for August 12, 2008
Does it surprise you that the Nation magazine would publish this tribute to right-wing Israeli revisionist Zionist, Ehud Olmert? It does not surprise me.
Posted on August 12, 2008 by As'ad
My article in Al-Akhbar: “Mahmud Darwish: In praise of High Poetry”
Posted on August 12, 2008 by As'ad
“The blockade imposed by Israel on the Gaza Strip over a year ago has left the entire population of 1.5 million Palestinians trapped with dwindling resources and an economy in ruins. Some 80 per cent of the population now depend on the trickle of international aid that the Israeli army allows in. This humanitarian crisis [...]
Posted on August 12, 2008 by As'ad
“Eighteen of 23 drivers in a Jerusalem taxi station have decided to resign after learning that their station is about to be sold to an Arab businessman from east Jerusalem.”
Posted on August 12, 2008 by As'ad
“The documents were seized shortly after the fall of Baghdad by Kanan Makiya, an Iraq-born emigre who teaches at Brandeis University and heads a private group called the Iraq Memory Foundation.” I can’t believe how many lies and fabrications Makiya peddles per day. What is this that he personally seized the documents? They were captured [...]
Posted on August 12, 2008 by As'ad
“Nouzha Skalli, the minister for family and social affairs, is accused of seeking legislation to lower the volume on muezzins in tourist zones. Newspapers have asked whether Skalli, a feminist and former Communist, is trying to curb Islam and impose secularism on Morocco’s overwhelmingly Muslim society. Some hard-line imams have cursed her during public sermons.” [...]
Posted on August 12, 2008 by As'ad
Like the lousy Fath Movement, the lousy Hamas organization is now committed not to the security of the Palestinians but to the security of Israel: “Hamas officials vowed on Monday it would track down the parties responsible for the firing of a Qassam rocket from northern Gaza towards Israel on Monday.” (thanks Olivia)
Posted on August 12, 2008 by As'ad
I don’t understand this. Both the Georgian government and Dahlan army are allies of Israel. Why not send the Muhammad Dahlan Special Forces (seen above) to Georgia to help bolster the Georgian government?
Posted on August 12, 2008 by As'ad
“Mr. Saakashvili [seen on his knees above] belongs to a generation of young men and women from the former Soviet Union who were educated in the West but returned to their home countries. He proudly professes to hold “American values.†His personal, fierce allegiance to the United States, where he became a successful lawyer, has [...]
Posted on August 12, 2008 by As'ad
“‘George has been giving him advice on things such as presentation, public speaking and body language and he also emails him constantly about policy, especially the Middle East. ‘George is pushing him to be more “balanced†on issues such as US relations with Israel. ‘George is pro-Palestinian. And he is also urging Barack to withdraw [...]
Posted on August 12, 2008 by As'ad
“Two El Al Israel Airlines plane set off on Tuesday on special flights to Tbilisi in order to evacuate Israeli nationals waiting to leave war-torn Georgia.” I am sure that they are just tourists.
Posted on August 12, 2008 by As'ad
“The Bush administration yesterday announced plans to relax the law protecting endangered species to allow federal agencies to decide for themselves whether construction projects such as highways, dams or mines might harm endangered animals and plants.”
Posted on August 12, 2008 by As'ad
“Ostensibly, the Russian jets that bombed Kostia’s house were aiming for a Georgian tank base a couple of miles away. The bombs did not reach their target.” Hell. U.S. occupation jets miss their targets at least once a week in Afghanistan and Iraq and no one cares. It seems that Russians are learning from the [...]
Posted on August 12, 2008 by As'ad
A good map of the Russian-Georgian conflict.
Posted on August 12, 2008 by As'ad
“The key liaison was Reserve Brigadier General Gal Hirsch who commanded Israeli forces on the border with Lebanon during the July 2006 Second Lebanon War. (Yossi Melman, “Georgia Violence – A frozen alliance,” Haaretz, 10 August 2008). He resigned from the army after the Winograd commission severely criticized Israel’s conduct of its war against Lebanon [...]
Posted on August 12, 2008 by As'ad
“He was seven when – in the Nakba of 1948 – he fled from Birweh, his village in the Galilee. At the age of 12, living in Deir el-Asad, in what had become Israel, with a reputation as a precocious child poet, he was asked to compose a poem for a public reading. The occasion [...]
Posted on August 12, 2008 by As'ad
History of Lebanon according to the Internal Security Force: ““Emir Fakhreddine II is the founder of the modern Lebanese State. After a perturbed childhood, he acceded in 1589 and started working for the unification of the country, by destroying some independent objecting Lebanese families. In order to keep order and execute the usual police missions, [...]
Posted on August 12, 2008 by As'ad