Archive for January 26, 2009
Today in History: a year ago
“Radical PLO leader George Habash died in Amman, Jordan, at age 81.” The great George Habash.
Posted on January 26, 2009 by As'ad
One-sided carnage
“Over the last four weeks the powerful Israeli propaganda machine has been churning out lie after lie about Hamas in order to excuse its own inexcusable onslaught. Israel stopped journalists going into Gaza, preventing any independent reporting on the war crimes its forces were committing. Truth is usually the first casualty in war. Gaza was [...]
Posted on January 26, 2009 by As'ad
Obama wants more of that
“But the two young men who lay wincing in a hospital ward here told a different story a few days later, one backed up by the pro-American provincial governor and a central government delegation. They agreed that 13 civilians had been killed and 9 wounded when American commandos broke down doors and unleashed dogs without [...]
Posted on January 26, 2009 by As'ad
They will serve two hours in jail
“Nine young Jewish men, most of them under the age of 18, were arrested Sunday night on suspicion of torching property belonging to Arab residents of the northern city of Nazareth Illit over the past few months.” (thanks Olivia)
Posted on January 26, 2009 by As'ad
Registered in notebooks
“”We all put our hands up and yelled, ‘We’re women and children. We’re not the resistance,’ ” recalled Sherine Helw, Fuad’s daughter-in-law. The soldiers opened fire on Fuad, said Sherine, and he died in front of his family.”
Posted on January 26, 2009 by As'ad
Cows or…goats and chicken
Now this is not a cow but it is something. But we need the cows or the…..goats and chicken to be comfortable inside the tunnels. I did not like how squeezed this one (goat?) looks. (thanks Waqaas) (B’Tselem–but why is B’Tselem taking pictures of the tunnels? That is what I want to know.)
Posted on January 26, 2009 by As'ad
Embedded "philospher"
“Bernard-Henri Lévy, bien calé dans le char israélien qui le transportait – comme il l’a raconté si fièrement – n’a sans doute rien vu.” (thanks Mirvat)
Posted on January 26, 2009 by As'ad
Colonial feminism in Denmark
“While the mother was sentenced, the father of the girls was found not guilty.” (thanks Gabriela)
Posted on January 26, 2009 by As'ad
Lessons from Lebanonesia
“Visiting Georgian Deputy Premier Giorgi Baramidze said his country has a lot to learn from Lebanon.” Look at those stupid stories that you find on An-Nahar website. I am sure that Georgia can learn from Lebanon: especially in the area of civil wars and sellling the country to outside powers, but the Georgian president is [...]
Posted on January 26, 2009 by As'ad
Dahlan o Dahlan
A reliable source in Palestine sent me this: “apparently, samer huwairah from al quds television was arrested by the pa on saturday because he put abdel sattar qasim on television”.
Posted on January 26, 2009 by As'ad
The Palestine question
It is not Arab regimes that keep the flame of the Palestine question alive among the Arab people. Regular and constant Israeli brutality and savagery that does that.
Posted on January 26, 2009 by As'ad
US media covrage of Israeli terrorism
My comments on media coverage of the Israeli terrorist attack on Gaza in the Egyptian newspaper, Al-Badil.
Posted on January 26, 2009 by As'ad
Arab hopes or illusions?
My article on Al-Jazeera net: “The Obama Era: Arab hopes or Illusions?”
Posted on January 26, 2009 by As'ad