Archive for November 27, 2008

Comrade Khalid is right: It is “our time” on the left.

Posted on November 27, 2008 by As'ad

I don’t eat meat now, but I have strong views about stuffing the turkey. The American stuffing is so boring and unimaginative–not unlike American cuisine. I mean, we in the Middle East really know how to stuff animals (chicken, cows, lambs, etc): with rice, spices, almonds, pine nuts, and minced meat. That is real stuffing–oh, [...]

Posted on November 27, 2008 by As'ad

“Egyptian police have arrested a blogger who criticised the government and expressed support for the Islamist Palestinian group Hamas, a human rights organisation said on Tuesday.” (thanks Mohammed)

Posted on November 27, 2008 by As'ad

“The Israeli occupation troops on Wednesday fired intermittently at a group of children near the northern Gaza Strip crossing of Beit Hanun (Erez).”

Posted on November 27, 2008 by As'ad

The Kurdish province convicts and sentences a Kurdish writer for writing about sex. Don’t you like it when pro-war US liberals pretend that the Talbani-Barzani tribal confederation is an enlightened republic? (thanks Ramzi)

Posted on November 27, 2008 by As'ad

“The stated mission of Freedom’s Watch has been to “support mainstream conservative public policies” but the focus of the group’s lobbying and media campaigns has reflected the staunchly pro-Iraq war and pro-Israeli-Likud Party politics of its chief benefactor.” (thanks Mouin)

Posted on November 27, 2008 by As'ad

“Having fled killings, kidnappings, torture, and death threats, about 3,000 Palestinian refugees from Iraq are currently stranded in three camps along the border between Syria and Iraq. Denied asylum and refugee rights, they are extremely vulnerable in poorly situated camps.” For this, blame the American occupation, the Iraqi puppet government, the sectarian Shi`ite Badr militia, [...]

Posted on November 27, 2008 by As'ad

“Gaza is people’s constant attempt to cling to a normal life, although Israel foists on them abnormal terms of imprisonment, isolation from the rest of the world and deterioration to a state of humiliating dependence on international charity programs.” (thanks Marcy)

Posted on November 27, 2008 by As'ad

“Afghan President Hamid Karzai said on Wednesday he would bring down U.S. planes bombing villages if he could, in a sign of growing tension between Afghanistan and its Western backers as the Taliban insurgency grows in strength.” Wow. What if he calls on his US bodyguards to shoot at US planes? (thanks Nabeel)

Posted on November 27, 2008 by As'ad

Full text. Exceptions in the prosecution of Israeli occupation soldiers. (thanks Laleh)

Posted on November 27, 2008 by As'ad

A reader in Damascus tells me that my website is still blocked there. Maybe this will lift the ban: Down with the Syrian regime.

Posted on November 27, 2008 by As'ad

“”A lot of the men drivers are young and impatient, and they’re not disciplined. Women are simply better drivers.”” (thanks Toufic)

Posted on November 27, 2008 by As'ad

Lebanese Navy parade on Independence Day. Those and zee plane, zee plane, will defend Lebanon from Israeli aggression. (thanks Ben and Nate)

Posted on November 27, 2008 by As'ad

The Iraqi Communist Party has historically been responsible for the demise of the Arab Left. “The Communist party, the Iraqi Accord Front (IAF) and the National Dialogue bloc will vote to approve the U.S. troop withdrawal agreement also known as the status-of-forces agreement (SOFA), al-Iraqia satellite television said in a breaking news on Thursday.” (thanks [...]

Posted on November 27, 2008 by As'ad

Al-Azhar Shaykh (a book burner and a senile man who threw an ashtray at an Egyptian journalist because she dared ask him a question that he did not like) meets Shimon Peres. This Muftitititi-for-hire is willing–for the right fee–to argue that the strangulation of Gaza is justified Islamically. Change in the Arab world has to [...]

Posted on November 27, 2008 by As'ad

House of Saud media: “Meanwhile, I am hearing about a new role for Mohammad Dahlan, or his rehabilitation so that he enters the front lines of Fatah, after his exit from Gaza. Dahlan has fervent supporters, just as he has equally ardent opponents and rivals. There are Arab and non-Arab states that support him. He [...]

Posted on November 27, 2008 by As'ad

Comrade Samah remembers (fondly) the great struggler, George Habash. PS I don’t understand why the PFLP does not dissolve itself. I mean, it exists only in name, and only as a front for Dahlan’s funneled money. Its West Bank leader, `Abdur-Rahim Malluh, is no more than sidekick of Muhammad Dahlan. And its leader in Lebanon, [...]

Posted on November 27, 2008 by As'ad

Arafat’s (and later Dahlan’s) sidekick, Yasir `Abd-Rabbu, is one of the most corrupt, most opportunistic, and most unprincipled Palestinian (I would not call him a leader as he can barely lead his driver and bodyguards) there is. He was (we now know, and he implicity admits that in the long interviews that he has given [...]

Posted on November 27, 2008 by As'ad

The lousy Yasir `Arafat (who if you ask me is not even dead enough) offers the military salute to Ariel Sharon, and then extends his hand to shake his hand, while Sharon ignores him. Arab puppets deserve all the humiliation that is visited upon them: “وكان ياسر عرفات يحب لقب ودور الجنرال أكثر من حبه [...]

Posted on November 27, 2008 by As'ad

It is official. Syrian foreign policy propagandist, Buthayna Sha`ban, does not understand what she reads. She claims that NYT’s article on Hizbullah was favorable to Hizbullah, and she notes changes in Western public opinion that don’t exist.

Posted on November 27, 2008 by As'ad