Archive for September 12, 2008
My article in Al-Akhbar: “The Colonel [Qadhdhafi]“
Posted on September 12, 2008 by As'ad
“”Everybody started teasing him and calling him a terrorist after the comments were made by the teacher,” Mohmmad said.”
Posted on September 12, 2008 by As'ad
“But Mr. Gibson noted that threats of new sanctions had failed to stem Iran’s nuclear program so far and asked Ms. Palin whether she would back Israel if it were to seek to eliminate Iran’s facilities militarily. “We are friends with Israel,†Ms. Palin said, “and I don’t think that we should second-guess the measures [...]
Posted on September 12, 2008 by As'ad
“The Palestinian Center for Human Rights (PCHR) condemns the use of force by the Palestinian security forces to disperse a peaceful march near ‘Aaida refugee camp, north of Bethlehem. The security forces fired at the march indiscriminately wounding a child seriously. PCHR calls upon concerned authorities to initiate an immediate investigation into the incident, to [...]
Posted on September 12, 2008 by As'ad
“Masterminding this strategy is the Israeli secret police, the Shin Bet, which has recently turned its attention to sick Gazans and their relatives who need to leave the Strip. With hospitals and medicines in short supply, some patients have little hope of recovery without treatment abroad or in Israel. According to the Israeli branch of [...]
Posted on September 12, 2008 by As'ad
“Iraqi Parliament’s Human Rights Commission has found up to 200 malnourished and disease-stricken Iraqi detainees locked in a secret prison in the southern city of Basra. The commission’s spokesman, Amer Thamer, said many of the detainees bore signs of torture. “They are crammed in a circular room surrounded with slabs of concrete with no roof,†[...]
Posted on September 12, 2008 by As'ad
“Walid Jumblatt, the colorful and outspoken leader of Lebanon’s Druze community, accused his coalition’s leader, Saad Hariri, of trying to build a militia and allying with Islamic extremists. In comments to a newspaper, he lampooned Hariri’s leadership skills, likening his U.S.-backed Future Movement to a “troop of camels all walking together.””
Posted on September 12, 2008 by As'ad
“It appears that Mr Schroder and Mr Steinmeier may have struck a secret deal with the US to provide intelligence which would aid the “shock and awe” bombardment of Iraq and clear the way for the coalition invasion.”
Posted on September 12, 2008 by As'ad
“”The Russians are right! We’re wrong! Georgia started it, the Russians ended it,” Rohrabacher said at a hearing in the House of Representatives.”
Posted on September 12, 2008 by As'ad
“Bloggers across the Web are showing their solidarity with Mohamed Erraji, a Moroccan blogger who was sentenced to two years in prison last week for “failing to show respect for the king.”” (thanks Mariwan)
Posted on September 12, 2008 by As'ad
“Israeli sources reported on Thursday that an Israeli soldier was to sentenced to 14 days imprisonment for delaying a pregnant Palestinian woman at a military roadblock near Nablus, in the northern part of the West Bank, causing her to lose her infant.”
Posted on September 12, 2008 by As'ad
I read in an interview with George Habash by Ghassan Sharbil that the former said that Arafat cared about his person more than he cared about his people. How true. How true. (You can find it in Sharbil’s new book, Asrar As-Sunduq Al-Aswad).
Posted on September 12, 2008 by As'ad
This is Zionism: “Thousands of Palestinian children in East Jerusalem do not attend school as there is no room for them in the state school system, parents and rights groups said, adding that the drop-out rate remained the highest in the Israeli school system.”
Posted on September 12, 2008 by As'ad
Comrade Rami on “silence of the lambs”
Posted on September 12, 2008 by As'ad
Al-Akhbar has been monitoring press restrictions and censorship in Jordan (Human Rights Watch is busy watching the health conditions of right-wing Lebanese lawyer, Muhammad Al-Mughrabi who it had granted an award a few years ago).
Posted on September 12, 2008 by As'ad
Palestinian poet, `Izz Ad-Din Al-Manasrah, started writing about Mahmud Darwish, and then ended up writing about how great he–Al-Manasrah that is–is. (thanks Omar)
Posted on September 12, 2008 by As'ad
“Baghdad: Americans, increasingly resenting recent moves by Iraqi Prime Minister Nouri Al Maliki, could seek to topple or even assassinate him, says a secret report by a Kurdish political party, which is part of the national government. The report, which Gulf News has seen, says Al Maliki does not want to see any US soldier [...]
Posted on September 12, 2008 by As'ad
I notice that Kanan Makiya attaches a PhD to his name now. That is nice, knowing that he never even completed his graduate studies in architecture. It must be one of those PhDs that UK universities give out in return for “writings” that you submit–although they make you sit for a chat before they grant [...]
Posted on September 12, 2008 by As'ad
This is how you know that peace is coming to the Middle East on George W. Bush’s watch: “The U.S. government on Tuesday said it had approved up to $330 million in three separate arms deals for Israel, and sources tracking a much bigger deal for 25 Lockheed Martin Corp F-35 fighter jets said that [...]
Posted on September 12, 2008 by As'ad
“It has been a delicate move made with little fanfare because in principle it is illegal to allow certain Israeli citizens to do something others may not.” Oh, really? Only in the New York Times you would read something like that. I did not know that at all. Does this pertain to land purchases and [...]
Posted on September 12, 2008 by As'ad