Archive for January 24, 2009
Scenes from Gaza
“Palestinian Rawan Abu Taber, 4, wounded during the Israeli military operations, screams in pain as doctors change bandages to her severe burns, at the Shifa hospital in Gaza City, Wednesday Jan. 21, 2009. Doctors had to amputate her thumb because it kept on burning. A vast majority of over 4,000 Palestinians wounded in Israel’s operations [...]
Posted on January 24, 2009 by As'ad
Obama and Arab illusions
“وقال أستاذ العلوم السياسية بجامعة كاليÙورنيا أسعد أبو خليل -وهو لبناني المولد ومؤيد للÙلسطينيين- “استغرق الأمر يومين طويلين قبل أن يبدد أوباما أي Ø£Ùكار عن إجراء تغيير ÙÙŠ السياسة الأميركية بالشرق الأوسط”.”
Posted on January 24, 2009 by As'ad
Let me make a prediction
20 years from now, the Hariri family will still be calling for finding the killers of Rafiq Hariri. Keep looking.
Posted on January 24, 2009 by As'ad
Mithal Al-Alusi
Al-Arabiyya TV (the station of King Fahd’s brother-in-law) has started the Iraqi political puppet campaign. Usually, it means a non-stop promotion of Iyad `Allawi (the former puppet prime minsiter/car bomber/Saddam’s henchman/embezzler-in-Yemen/fabricator of an assassination attempt on his life in London). Today, they had a 30 minute interview with Mithal Al-Lusi. This guy is so popular [...]
Posted on January 24, 2009 by As'ad
Have you noticed?
Palestinian children tend to have a rare combination of adorableness and maturity. PS Electronic Ali sent me this (I cite with his permission): “As’ad, there are studies that show that refugee children and other children in war zones forced to deal prematurely with major and traumatic responsibilities (including adult responsibilities of caring for a devastated [...]
Posted on January 24, 2009 by As'ad
Obama bombs (and bullets)
“US soldiers killed an Iraqi couple and wounded their eight-year-old daughter during a raid against Al-Qaeda suspects near the northern city of Kirkuk on Saturday, police and the US military said.”
Posted on January 24, 2009 by As'ad
Oh, no
“Lebanon’s Daily Star shut down”. Michael Young should write for the New East Report (the mouthpiece of AIPAC).
Posted on January 24, 2009 by As'ad
Dahlan o Dahlan
“Dahlan vows to decimate Hamas”
Posted on January 24, 2009 by As'ad
The deranged Libyan dictator speaks
Now I have to read about the history of the Arab-Israeli conflict from the deranged Libyan dictator: “It is a fact that Palestinians inhabited the land and owned farms and homes there until recently, fleeing in fear of violence at the hands of Jews after 1948 — violence that did not occur, but rumors of [...]
Posted on January 24, 2009 by As'ad
Those Palestinians
I know that I tend to be emotional about the Palestinian people and their revolution, but still. I mean, look at this boy. How could Zionists ever think that they can defeat those people. I don’t care how many nuclear warheads Israel accumulates, they are obsolete in the face of the Palestinian people. Zionists: your [...]
Posted on January 24, 2009 by As'ad
Queen Youtube
I have deliberately avoided commenting on the TV ad that Queen Youtube has taped for UNRWA regarding Gaza relief. I am afraid that I will express myself in obscenities. Let her tape a TV ad about her government’s training and arming of Dahlan gangs.
Posted on January 24, 2009 by As'ad
War Crimes unto the Nations
“There is evidence that Israel committed war crimes during its 22-day campaign in the Gaza Strip and there should be an independent inquiry, UN investigator Richard Falk said Thursday.The mental anguish of the civilians who suffered the assault is so great that the entire population of Gaza could be seen as casualties, said Falk, UN [...]
Posted on January 24, 2009 by As'ad
Approximately or Exactly?
“Noam Chomsky: Obama’s Stance on Gaza Crisis “Approximately the Bush Positionâ€. Angry Arab: Obama’s Stance on Gaza Crisis ‘Exactly the Bush Position’”. (thanks Nader)
Posted on January 24, 2009 by As'ad
Lobbyists for polygamous kings and princes
Did you see all the Arab and Muslim American organizations cheering Obama and praising his appointment of Zionist Mitchell? That brings up memories. Those were cheering Bush and his appointments back in 2000.
Posted on January 24, 2009 by As'ad
Who did it?
“A bomb exploded, Friday evening, under the car of Abdel-Sattar Qasem, a professor of political science at the Najah University in Nablus, in the northern West Bank. No one was injured in the explosion.” This is a courageous leftist professor. I wonder who was behind this attack. I mean, Qasem attacks the thugs and corrupt [...]
Posted on January 24, 2009 by As'ad
It must be nice
It must be nice for Israeli terrorist troops: they kill civilians for 20 years or so, and then they make movies in retirement and give fake preachments about peace.
Posted on January 24, 2009 by As'ad
Ask yourselves: how could anybody support Israeli terrorism
“Seven children from Toura al-Gharbeiah village (near the West Bank city of Jenin) were arrested on Tuesday by the Israeli authorities; they are currently detained in Salim detention and interrogation center, in the northern West Bank. Two of the children are only 12 years old; two are 13; another two are aged 15; and the [...]
Posted on January 24, 2009 by As'ad
Obama bombs
“A claim by US forces in Afghanistan that they killed 15 Taliban fighters in the eastern province of Laghman, has been disputed by village elders. A US statement said on Saturday that soldiers killed the fighters after coming under fire from opposition fighters. But the elders say all those who died were civilians.” (Obama bombs [...]
Posted on January 24, 2009 by As'ad
There are Arab-types in my soup
“A US citizen caused delays to a Turkish Airlines flight between Istanbul and New York after complaining that there were “Arab-types†on board.” (thanks David)
Posted on January 24, 2009 by As'ad
Roth is shocked: that Israeli army has no credibility
“Predictably, the IDF holds Hamas wholly responsible for civilian casualties in Gaza, alleging that Hamas combatants stored weapons in mosques and fought from among civilians. Those allegations may or may not be true. Long experience, as during the 2006 war in Lebanon, shows that we must take such ritual IDF pronouncements with a grain of [...]
Posted on January 24, 2009 by As'ad