Archive for December 29, 2008
Saudi and Egyptian
Saudi and Egyptian media are on the defensive. They are going out of their way to explain their stances. After being attacked for ignoring the Gaza horrors, AlArabiyya changed its tune on the second day, especially when it was dubbed “The Hebrew One” in a speech by Hasan Nasrallah. The anchor explained the next day [...]
Posted on December 29, 2008 by As'ad
Sultan Qaboos
Sultan Qaboos of Oman opened the GCC summit today. His speech did not make one reference to Gaza. The correspondent of Aljazeera (Arabic) explained on the air: he said that it was not on the agenda.
Posted on December 29, 2008 by As'ad
By comparison
Michele sent me this: “In an effort to help Americans get a sense of the death & destruction in Gaza, I came up with the following figures yesterday.Gaza pop = 1387276 and .02% is 277Israel pop is 7337000 and .02% is 1,467US pop is 305505444 and .02% is 611,011*I’ve double checked my figures and believe [...]
Posted on December 29, 2008 by As'ad
The Dahlan Lobby in Washington, DC Speaks
“ATFP deplored the disproportionate force employed by Israel and expressed deep concern for the well-being of the innocent civilian population in Gaza. ATFP also reiterated its demand that the reckless and provocative rocket attacks aimed at Israel immediately stop.” So the lobby wants Israel to use only “proportionate” force when it bombs Gaza. Not to [...]
Posted on December 29, 2008 by As'ad
King PlayStation
The King of Jordan today donated blood in solidarity with Gaza. In gratitude, the Palestinian people are now organizing a campaign to donate their feces to him. PS Will Queen Youtube be blogging on Gaza? Or she is too busy trying (unsuccessfully) to be funny and practicing her newly-acquired British accent.
Posted on December 29, 2008 by As'ad
Nir is kicking ass: who cares if he is hurting his career?
“Once again, the Israelis bomb the starving and imprisoned population of Gaza. The world watches the plight of 1.5 million Gazans live on TV and online; the western media largely justify the Israeli action. Even some Arab outlets try to equate the Palestinian resistance with the might of the Israeli military machine. And none of [...]
Posted on December 29, 2008 by As'ad
Only 51, exclaimed Israeli media?
“At least 51 civilians in the Gaza Strip have been killed in Israeli air strikes since Saturday, according to a tally by a United Nations aid agency.”
Posted on December 29, 2008 by As'ad
The Other side of Dubai
““They wouldn’t let us go onto the street and forced us to leave and to stop,†Mrs al Masri said, wearing a niqab with a kaffiyeh draped around her shoulders, shortly after confronting the police. “They said it’s not allowed and I asked them why. They said they would arrest us.— (thanks Aida)
Posted on December 29, 2008 by As'ad
Walid Jumblat calls her "the Loving Condy"
“US Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice gave a farewell interview to the CBS television network, in which she elaborated on former Prime Minister Ariel Sharon. “He became someone that I admired enormously,” she said.” I bet that she–like the US media–is carefully monitoring his toe movements.
Posted on December 29, 2008 by As'ad
Domestic Servants in US
“The trafficking of children for domestic labor in the U.S. is an extension of an illegal but common practice in Africa. Families in remote villages send their daughters to work in cities for extra money and the opportunity to escape a dead-end life. Some girls work for free on the understanding that they will at [...]
Posted on December 29, 2008 by As'ad
A brave journalist
“It’s not that there is official censorship, it’s just that there is an unwillingness of most Israelis to know. So, we have to fight, because nowadays it’s more difficult because the papers used to understand their role in the past: to monitor the centers of power. The Israeli media did its role, and let journalists [...]
Posted on December 29, 2008 by As'ad
Where Obama and Bush are in agreement
“The Israel Air Force used a new bunker-buster missile that it received recently from the United States in strikes against Hamas targets in the Gaza Strip on Saturday, The Jerusalem Post learned on Sunday.”
Posted on December 29, 2008 by As'ad
Dahlan and Rafah Crosing Agreement
I have noticed that none (in the Arab or Western media) are pointing out the obvious: that none other than Muhammad Dahlan was the one who arranged the Rafah crossing agreement with the Israeli terrorist occupiers, and he was the one who promoted it in the Arab media. Here is my post from that time.
Posted on December 29, 2008 by As'ad
Racism in Israeli state AND society
“On the other hand, Jewish students gathered to support the Israeli operation and called out “Death to terrorists” and “Ismail (Haniyeh) is next”.” Will American media, civic, and congressional organizations and committees issue lengthy reports condemning the teaching of hate in Israeli society? But this is amazing–in fact, it is not if you know anything [...]
Posted on December 29, 2008 by As'ad
Shoe Knesset
“Baraka, unable to restrain himself, told Netanyahu to “shut up and stop dancing over shed blood.†Immediately, another member Netanyahu’s Likud Party, Gilad Arden, told Baraka to “go to Gaza,†causing the latter to answer, “Of course I would go to show solidarity with my people.†Another rightist member of the Knesset, Avigdor Liberman, said [...]
Posted on December 29, 2008 by As'ad
Hell on earth
“For the children it is like living in hell.”
Posted on December 29, 2008 by As'ad
This is Zionism
“Al Mezan’s initial monitoring indicates that at least 257 people have been killed in the IOF’s strikes in the last 24 hours. Of those, the vast majority are non-combatants and civilians; including 20 children, nine women and 60 civilians. The majority of the rest of the casualties are members of the civilian police who were [...]
Posted on December 29, 2008 by As'ad
You think I care what happens to an Israeli occupation terrorist?
“Sources in Gaza said that the captured Israeli occupation soldier Gilad Shalit was wounded in one of the Israeli occupation air strikes on the Gaza Strip.” (thanks Olivia)
Posted on December 29, 2008 by As'ad
Human Rights violations…here
“Conviction rates hover just above 10 percent of complaints filed in the United States and are a measly 6 percent in Britain. Because the vast majority of rape victims don’t file complaints, it does not take precise studies or statistics to conclude that most sexual assaults in most parts of the world end without punishment [...]
Posted on December 29, 2008 by As'ad
ADL
Orwell should have assigned a special role for ADL in his 1984. I mean, you think about this organization which promotes defamation against a whole people while claiming to support opposition to defamation. And now this: “The Anti-Defamation League on Sunday issued a statement protesting The United Nations Security Council’s call earlier in the day [...]
Posted on December 29, 2008 by As'ad