Archive for February 19, 2009
Hitchens and Lee Smith rescuing Lebanese Shi`ites
This is funny. A group of Zionist Western journalists are trying to cultivate “new” agreeable Shi`ites in Lebanon. Good luck. (thanks Mirvat)
Posted on February 19, 2009 by As'ad
impersonating me on Israeli sites
I am being alerted that Zionist hoodlums are also using my trade-marked name to write comments on this website too.
Posted on February 19, 2009 by As'ad
Invisible
“To say that Palestinians are absent in Waltz with Bashir, to say that it is a film that deals not with Palestinians but with Israelis who served in Lebanon, only barely begins to describe the violence that this film commits against Palestinians. There is nothing interesting or new in the depiction of Palestinians — they [...]
Posted on February 19, 2009 by As'ad
Che was a Marxist-Leninist
I sometimes defend AlJazeera but sometimes I criticize AlJazeera. Today, I was quite upset with the lousy documentary that AlJazeera aired on Che. First, it was shallow. Secondly, they gloss over the Marxist-Leninist ideology of the man: just as his popularization in Lebanon has rendered him into an unpolitical figure to the point that a [...]
Posted on February 19, 2009 by As'ad
Sons of…Zayid
“Israel’s Andy Ram has been given a visa to play in next week’s Dubai Championships, after compatriot Shahar Peer was denied entry this week.” (thanks Khaled)
Posted on February 19, 2009 by As'ad
To Sixty Hells with Nobel
When they asked Tayyib Salih about the requirements for Arab recepients of Nobel (that they be “obedient” on Israel), he said: “To sixty hells with Nobel.” (thanks Chris)
Posted on February 19, 2009 by As'ad
Hitchens and theocracies
Do you notice that when Hitchens criticizes theocracies he leaves Saudi Arabia out of it? Of course, this is unrelated to the fact that a Saudi-Hariri group hosted him in Beirut. Another example of the Zionist-Wahhabi alliance.
Posted on February 19, 2009 by As'ad
Cry for mini-Hariri
I mean, who does this work? Like some adviser of mini-Hariri told him that it would look cute if he seats a picture of his dead father on a chair next to him when he meets with foreign dignitaries? Like he thinks he is some kid and that those visitors will feel sorry for him [...]
Posted on February 19, 2009 by As'ad
Hitchens on Lebanon
“In order to illustrate how he knows so much more about Lebanon than anyone else in the room, when pressed, the only “true revolutionary†he could come up with was Walid Joumblatt. To this, the audience mostly just laughed out loud. I would have felt sorry for Hitchens if he hadn’t been such a pompous [...]
Posted on February 19, 2009 by As'ad
Two long days
““It took two longs days before Obama dispelled any notions of a change in US Middle East policy,†said As’ad Abu Khalil, Lebanese-born and pro-Palestinian professor of political science at California State Univerity.” (thanks Olivia)
Posted on February 19, 2009 by As'ad
Yusuf Qaradawi’s son: it is official
So in the last three months, two shows by NBN broadcaster, Maria Ma`luf were banned. One featured Muhammad Dahlan and the other featured Yusuf Qaradawi’s son, `Abdur-Rahman. Yesterday, I asked Maria about that. She explained (and I have her permission to share the responses): the show about Dahlan was cancelled after intervention by Hamas and [...]
Posted on February 19, 2009 by As'ad
Words are too frail
“”Words are simply too frail to express to you adequately the depth of my gratitude for the magnificent letter,” Valenti wrote. “This is something I shall always treasure.””
Posted on February 19, 2009 by As'ad
US Policy toward Lebanon
There is an undeclared new shift in US policy toward Lebanon. This policy started under Bush and continues under Obama. The policy is this: boycott of the Shi`ites in Lebanon. All US dignitaries in Lebanon now strictly boycott all meetings with Shi`ite officials. Of course, I am not talking about Hizbullah as they never met [...]
Posted on February 19, 2009 by As'ad
I knew this was coming
Now the play that shows sympathy for the Palestinians is anti-Semitic. Notice that the New York Times does not say that outright but it plants the sinister accusation in the most sneaky and sleazy fashion.
Posted on February 19, 2009 by As'ad
Tears for Israeli spies and collaborators
Somebody needs to explain this to me NOW. Wait, the answer is quite obvious. Never mind. But the New York Times which rarely puts Middle East stories on its front page today led with a story about this alleged Israeli spy. I mean, more than 400 children were killed by Israeli terrorists in Gaza and [...]
Posted on February 19, 2009 by As'ad
Tayyib Salih is dead
Sudanese novelist, Tayyib Salih is dead. I was rather sad to read this news. I read his Season of Migration to the North (which is available in an excellent English translation supervised by Salih himself) in college and was affected by it. His Arabic style was not what affected me but the themes: the anger [...]
Posted on February 19, 2009 by As'ad
The White Man in Beirut: Walid Jumblat’s Complex (Update)
There is no person I know who has a complex vis-a-vis the White Man more than Walid Jumblat. He craves the company of the White Man. He never seems to be able to have his meal in his house without the company of some white man from somewhere, usually a white European diplomat or journalist. [...]
Posted on February 19, 2009 by As'ad