Archive for January 21, 2009

Things don’t change

On his last day in office, George W. Bush called the president of Israel. On his first day in office, Obama called the prime minister of Israel.

Posted on January 21, 2009 by As'ad

Prediction

Let me make this prediction: Obama will be as unprincipled as Bill Clinton–and maybe worse.

Posted on January 21, 2009 by As'ad

‘I watched an Israeli soldier shoot dead my two little girls’

Gaza: ‘I watched an Israeli soldier shoot dead my two little girls’. (thanks Molly)

Posted on January 21, 2009 by As'ad

Foreign maids in Lebanon

More on the deaths of foreign maids in Lebanon. (thanks Omar)

Posted on January 21, 2009 by As'ad

`Azmi and Jumana Nammur

`Azmi Bisharah explains a few things to Jumana Nammur on Aljazeera. (thanks Mirvat)

Posted on January 21, 2009 by As'ad

Soulless

“”We used to hold signs at protests reading ‘The occupation will corrupt’,” she told me. “Now, we can see that it has [come to pass]. As a society, we have lost our ability to see clearly; we have let fear blind us. Once, calling someone a racist was the harshest accusation you could make. Later, [...]

Posted on January 21, 2009 by As'ad

zee tunnels, zee tunnels

“Smuggling into Gaza from Egypt is underway again, only days after the end of the IDF operation against Hamas.” (thanks Shoghig)

Posted on January 21, 2009 by As'ad

just for the label

“Since Hamas has come to power in 2006 and staged a counter-coup against the thuggish, Western-sponsored, secular Fatah militia led by Mohammed Dahlan by mid-2007…” (thanks Olivia)

Posted on January 21, 2009 by As'ad

Good news at last

“Kingdom Holding Co, owned by Saudi billionaire Prince Alwaleed bin Talal, posted a $8.26 billion net loss in the fourth quarter after a dive in the value of its assets, which include a substantial stake in Citigroup.” Nobody is more responsible for the sexism, vulgarism, crudeness, and sleaze in Arab culture than this Prince (and [...]

Posted on January 21, 2009 by As'ad

Disgrace of Lebanon

Two Ethiopian maids were reported to have killed themselves (by hanging with a cable). These were two different cases in two different cities and Lebanese police (within hours) ruled that both killed themselves because they did not receive letters from the families that they missed back home. I kid you not.

Posted on January 21, 2009 by As'ad