Archive for December 16, 2008

Israeli terrorist network in Lebanon

As-Safir provides details of the Israeli terrorist network.

Posted on December 16, 2008 by As'ad

How dare the Lebanese steal a dish–yet again

How dare those ignorant Lebanonese claim that Knafah is a Lebanese dish?

Posted on December 16, 2008 by As'ad

Front Page of a pro-Saudi (formerly pro-Saddam) Iraqi newspaper

(It is the paper of former Saddam’s Goebbels, Sa`d Al-Bazzaz). Look at the picture of US soldiers.

Posted on December 16, 2008 by As'ad

Coverage of shoe in the US (on aljazeera)

“الأستاذ في الجامعة الأميركية أسعد أبو خليل قال “إن الحذاء الطائر عبر عما يجول في خاطر الرأي العام العربي أكثر من أولئك الدمى الذين يلتقون بوش لدى زيارته للشرق الأوسط”.”

Posted on December 16, 2008 by As'ad

150,000 heavily armed guests in Iraq

“QUESTION: But he wasn’t a guest. We’re occupiers.PERINO: No, we’re not. We are absolutely a guest.” (thanks FLC)

Posted on December 16, 2008 by As'ad

Arabic poetry in honor of the shoe

Shoe poetry.

Posted on December 16, 2008 by As'ad

A Suggestion

I wish all those Arabs cheering the shoe would take down to the streets and demonstrate against their tyrants and against Israel and they can throw their own shoes at their rulers instead of hypnotically watching scenes of the flying shoe, over and over again.

Posted on December 16, 2008 by As'ad

A Shoe Museum

Deans of the Press and Publishing syndicates in Lebanon held a special event in honor of the shoe thrower. Somebody suggested opening a “special museum” for the shoe. How does one tour that museum? Like here is the shoe, and then here is the shoe and there is the shoe and here is the sock?

Posted on December 16, 2008 by As'ad

Flash

Lebanese Minister of Defense (on a visit to Moscow) said that the Russian government has agreed to upgrade the Lebanese military arsenal. The Lebanese Army will be receiving brand new electric sandwich makers. This is expected to tip the Middle East military balance.

Posted on December 16, 2008 by As'ad

Ibrahim Salamah’s Memoirs

You need to get a copy of this important book that was published this year. It is not easy to find a copy as no main publisher agreed to publish it. It is very courageous and reveals so much about the contemporary history of Lebanese journalism and of intelligence services’ link to the Lebanese media. [...]

Posted on December 16, 2008 by As'ad

But he is an expert

“A US anti-kidnapping expert who has negotiated the release of dozens of hostages in Latin America has been abducted by gunmen in Mexico.” (thanks Marc)

Posted on December 16, 2008 by As'ad

The true Dubai

“The world’s first refrigerated beach is to be built at a luxury hotel in Dubai so the filthy rich holidaymakers don’t burn their feet on the scalding hot sand.”

Posted on December 16, 2008 by As'ad

Miracles from Lebanon.

Here we go again. Another miracle in Lebanon. An orange shaped like a hand. (As-Safir)

Posted on December 16, 2008 by As'ad

Gaza Shoe Solidarity

I am starting to think that shoes can be used as tools of offense in the Arab world. (thanks Matt)

Posted on December 16, 2008 by As'ad

When the Military Balance in ME Changes

“Slovenia plans to withdraw its two military instructors deployed in Iraq by the end of the year, Defense Minister Ljubica Jelusic said.” According to sources in Iraq, the two grew very close and they always went places together, hand in hand, and would often sing to one another. How nice.

Posted on December 16, 2008 by As'ad

Some bad news can be good

“The developer of the King Abdullah Economic City, Saudi Arabia’s flagship mega-project, is being forced to reconsider its plans and may delay some work as the global financial crisis stymies attempts to attract foreign investment and dries up financing.”

Posted on December 16, 2008 by As'ad

QueenYoutube

I always say that the Economist is the best magazine there is but it was a low point when the editor asked QueenTube to write an article for them. Did he think that she will write it herself?

Posted on December 16, 2008 by As'ad

I Told You So

“Vice President Dick Cheney is calling President-elect Barack Obama’s national security lineup “a pretty good team.”” (thanks Mouin)

Posted on December 16, 2008 by As'ad

Those are the Palestinians

“Not only was the Gaza Strip surprisingly flush with food, but the mood on the street was remarkably upbeat. Yes, Gaza, particularly in the refugee camps, is a miserable place — overcrowded, filthy, lack of work and forced confinement in a district 1/15 the size of Prince Edward Island.”

Posted on December 16, 2008 by As'ad

I would bar them for UN itself, if it is up to me

“United Nations General Assembly President Miguel d’Escoto Brockmann on Tuesday charged that the Israeli delegation has spread a “malicious lie” by asserting that he tried to bar its envoy from addressing a human rights session.”

Posted on December 16, 2008 by As'ad