Archive for October 12, 2008
A reporter in the Middle East sent me this (I cite with her permission): “Hi As`ad, You may find this interesting. Thousands of houses were sold in Dubai, Ajman and Abu Dhabi since 2001, when it became possible for foreigners to own property in the UAE. These houses were sold as a package with a [...]
Posted on October 12, 2008 by As'ad
I will be writing a regular article in Al-Adab magazine: the first in a series.
Posted on October 12, 2008 by As'ad
Saudi media, like Al-Arabiya, basically operates on the selling of sleaze and the downplaying of the suffering of the Palestinians.
Posted on October 12, 2008 by As'ad
“However, the Arabs were not the only chauvinists in Palestine looking to make a deal with the Nazis. At the end of 1940 and again at the end of 1941, a small Zionist terrorist organization known as the Stern Gang made contact with Nazi representatives in Beirut, seeking support for its struggle against the British. [...]
Posted on October 12, 2008 by As'ad
“The majority of people in the West Bank and the Gaza Strip are against the creation of a Palestinian state neighbouring Israel, according to a poll by An-Najah National University. 54.3 per cent of respondents oppose the so-called two-state solution, while 42.5 per cent support it.”
Posted on October 12, 2008 by As'ad
“A group of Jewish residents of Akko have called on fellow Jews to boycott all Arab merchants, tradesmen, and business-owners in the city, in retaliation for the Yom Kippur riots.”
Posted on October 12, 2008 by As'ad
“They agreed that the [puppet] Arab leaders would publicly condemn the driver who sparked the riots when he drove into a Jewish neighborhood on Wednesday evening, after the beginning of Yom Kippur.”
Posted on October 12, 2008 by As'ad
“The number of Israeli Arab recruits to the IDF has increased dramatically in the first nine months of 2008, official figures obtained by Haaretz indicate.”
Posted on October 12, 2008 by As'ad
“A court on Saturday fined an opposition editor and a reporter 80,000 pounds (14,600 dollars) each for publishing a doctored picture of Egypt’s leading cleric wearing a papal robe, a judicial source said.” It is illegal to mock the book burners of Al-Azhar.
Posted on October 12, 2008 by As'ad
Visa-or-no-Visa? Marlin sent me this: ” Hi, I know it’s become old news, but since people are still talking about it, I’d say the truth of visas for Americans is a mix of all this: it can be arbitrary, like Nir said, but it’s also that the procedures for entering Syria from Lebanon have changed [...]
Posted on October 12, 2008 by As'ad
“Lebanese friends of Cuba held a day of tribute to the Argentinean-Cuban guerrilla Ernesto Che Guevara and for solidarity with five Cuban anti-terrorists imprisoned in the United States.”
Posted on October 12, 2008 by As'ad
“Le capitalisme est omnivore, il capte le profit làoù il est le plus important àun moment donné ; il ne se contente pas de petits profits marginaux ; au contraire, il les maximise en constituant des monopoles – il a encore essayé de le faire dernièrement dans les biotechnologies et les technologies de [...]
Posted on October 12, 2008 by As'ad
“There is also a specialist signals unit, Unit 8200 as previously mentioned. There are listening posts, some in the Israeli occupied, and much contested, Golan Heights. There is also a satellite intercept facility there which compliments the other commercial satellite earth stations. Whilst the intelligence product from Israel’s Unit 8200 is not officially integrated into [...]
Posted on October 12, 2008 by As'ad
Najib in Japan sent me this:“ .hmmessage P { margin:0px; padding:0px } body.hmmessage { FONT-SIZE: 10pt; FONT-FAMILY:Tahoma } The Independent changed the online headline of the article covering the Lebanese-Israeli “food war” from one with the nuance that Israel is a victim on 10 October to a slightly better balanced headline on 11 October.10 October:Lebanon [...]
Posted on October 12, 2008 by As'ad
“The delegation met with the Director General of the Ministry of Public Security Shmuel Hershkovitz, the Associate Director of the Ministry Eliezer Rosenbaum and the Chief Scientist Prof. Israel Barak. They were briefed on the Ministry’s current security concept, the Ministry’s future vision and the main challenges facing the Ministry and Israel Police in the [...]
Posted on October 12, 2008 by As'ad
“The aim of the visit was to promote the operational and technological cooperation of the State of Israel and the American Department of Homeland Security in the area of homeland security.”
Posted on October 12, 2008 by As'ad
“`(4) COOPERATION- The Under Secretary is authorized to conduct international cooperative activities jointly with other agencies. `(5) FOREIGN PARTNERS- Partners may include Israel, the United Kingdom, Canada, Australia, Singapore, and other allies in the global war on terrorism, as appropriate.” (thansk TZ)
Posted on October 12, 2008 by As'ad
The smearcasting (thanks Kathy)
Posted on October 12, 2008 by As'ad
There was a Jordanian family missing in Lebanon but the press (in Lebanon and in the West) did not care, and there were no press stories about them. There were only…Arabs after all.
Posted on October 12, 2008 by As'ad
“The Kuwaiti Information Ministry took the incident seriously and asked the concert organizers to cancel the concert immediately, or be subject to punishment under the law.” (thanks Jonathan)
Posted on October 12, 2008 by As'ad