Archive for January 15, 2009
GCC Summit
GCC emergency Summit has just started. Wait: there is a flash ticker on Al-Arabiyya TV. The summit has ended. I kid you not.
Posted on January 15, 2009 by As'ad
Oh, please
My least favorite person on earth, Lebanonese TV personality, Gizelle Khuri, today donned a Kufiyyah on her TV show out of solidarity with Gaza. This is like Dahlan singing the Palestinian national anthem.
Posted on January 15, 2009 by As'ad
PR for the killers
“Israeli ministers will be heading out next week for a ‘PR attack’ in foreign media. Ynet has learned that six ministers are scheduled to travel to countries that have a distorted public opinion on Israel’s operation in Gaza in an attempt to change the situation.”
Posted on January 15, 2009 by As'ad
The Legend of the Saudi Minister of Defense
There is a project for a film and book about the “legend” of Prince Sultan. It is not clear if bribes will be included in the coverage. (thanks Hisham)
Posted on January 15, 2009 by As'ad
Ban apologizes to Israel for Israeli bombing of UN bldg
“Israeli forces shelled the United Nations headquarters in the Gaza Strip on Thursday, setting fire to the compound filled with hundreds of refugees as U.N. chief Ban Ki-moon was in the area on a mission to end Israel’s devastating offensive against the territory’s Hamas rulers. Ban expressed “outrage” over the bombing. He said Israeli Defense [...]
Posted on January 15, 2009 by As'ad
Arabs should memorize those figures
“A whopping 94% of the [Israeli] public support or strongly support the [Israeli terrorist] operation while 92% think it benefits Israel’s security, according to the Tel Aviv University survey.” If Egyptian scholar, Anwar Abdul-Malak, had described Egypt in his book in 1968 as “miliary society,” we can easily describe Israel as “terrorist society.”
Posted on January 15, 2009 by As'ad
Flash: a Jeffrey Goldberg exclusive
Now that Sa`id Siyam of Hamas has been killed, I expect tomorrow or Saturday at most that Jeffrey Goldberg will come forward with an exclusive interview with the dead Siyam, in which the latter makes many revelations to Goldberg. For some reason, Islamic fundamentalists in the Middle East really feel comfortable in confiding in Goldberg…after [...]
Posted on January 15, 2009 by As'ad
warlord-wannabee
“State Department staffers helped finance and supervise the Fatah campaign, down to the choice of backdrop color for the podium where Mr. Abbas was to proclaim victory. An adviser working for the United States Agency for International Development (USAID) explained to incredulous staffers at the Embassy in Tel Aviv how he would finance and direct [...]
Posted on January 15, 2009 by As'ad
The Syrian and Iranian regimes
I just don’t understand those in the Arab world who support the Syrian or Iranian regimes. How would they respond to the charge that the Syrian and Iranian regimes have only provided the Palestinians in Gaza with speeches and sermons during this war? I remember that I was disillusioned with Nasser at age 10, when [...]
Posted on January 15, 2009 by As'ad
Did you ever notice? Bin Laden and Zionism
Supporters of Israeli terrorism sound exactly like supporters of Al-Qa`idah terrorism on the internet in their justification of murder of civilians. But now it is clear: the alliance between House of Saud and Israel is (at least indirectly) an alliance between the ideology that inspired Bin Laden and the founding ideology of Israel.
Posted on January 15, 2009 by As'ad
Dahlan o Dahlan: a slip by Shin Bet in NYT
“Indeed, Hamas has shown only hostility to anyone perceived as cooperating with Israel. Yuval Diskin, chief of Israel’s Shin Bet internal security agency, told the cabinet here on Sunday that Hamas had cold-bloodedly killed about 70 Fatah supporters in Gaza under the cover of the war.” This is quite a revelation. Why is the Shin [...]
Posted on January 15, 2009 by As'ad
Hamas leaders
I know that they are under Israeli bombs and I am living here in safety but I don’t understand why some Hamas leaders still stay in designated places with their children when they know that Israeli terrorists are willing to destroy a neighborhood to kill one Hamas suspect, let alone a leader. I also believe [...]
Posted on January 15, 2009 by As'ad
New York Times’ knowledge of Arab affairs
Under this picture on the front page, the New York Times printed this caption: “Walls in Ramallah bear graffiti for Fatah, which dominates the Palestinian Authority, but is widely seen as weak and corrupt.” Of course, the only organization’s name on the wall is Islamic Jihad.
Posted on January 15, 2009 by As'ad
Gas
“Israel and the British natural gas company BG Group Plc will move ahead with controversial plans to drill for natural gas in the Gaza Marine field, despite Hamas’s takeover of the Gaza Strip last month,” (thanks Hammouda)
Posted on January 15, 2009 by As'ad
White phosphorous terrorism
“The international group Human Rights Watch is accusing Israel of firing weapons containing white phosphorus into Gaza. The group demands that the alleged practice cease.”
Posted on January 15, 2009 by As'ad
The fact
In its terrorist campaign on Gaza, the Israeli terrorist state has released the Palestinian national movement from any restriction WHATSOEVER in its methods of resistance to Israeli occupation. I would be eager to meet one person who will tell me to my face that the Palestinians should resort to this method or that method in [...]
Posted on January 15, 2009 by As'ad
Goldberg interviews with the dead
Regarding yesterday’s post on Goldberg’s series of interviews with dead people in their graves. A Palestinian researcher told me that he tried to interview Nizar Rayyan and the latter would adamantly refuse and would reveal his distrust. Yet, we are to believe, he was able to trust none other than a “former” member of the [...]
Posted on January 15, 2009 by As'ad
American love affair with Israeli and its terrorism
““If a Hamas writer [it should be fighter] were to shoot a film about his experience in Gaza would the Hollywood community welcome him with open arms, and would the liberal media shower him with praise? With or without the “anguish” of the Israel soldiers.†“Liberals in the West applaud Israeli soldiers in war, and [...]
Posted on January 15, 2009 by As'ad
Khalid Mish`al
Khalid Mish`al just said that Israel “lost its mind” in its bombing of Gaza. So wrong. The Israeli terrorists always bomb according to deliberate and firm plans. Terrorism is not accidental to Israel: it is its central doctrine.
Posted on January 15, 2009 by As'ad
Good news
“Abu Dhabi Investment Authority may have lost $125 billion last year, pushing the sovereign wealth fund to second place behind Saudi Arabia after the global credit crisis cut asset prices, economists at the Council on Foreign Relations said in a report.” (thanks Amer)
Posted on January 15, 2009 by As'ad