Archive for February 21, 2009
Wadad is dead
I wrote about the singer Wadad before. She died. Here is her best song.
Posted on February 21, 2009 by As'ad
Boycott
“The 15,000 member food co-op in Park Slope is considering a ban on Israeli products because of the conflict in the Mideast. Officials there are now debating making an international statement after a member’s proposal to take a symbolic stand against Israel.”
Posted on February 21, 2009 by As'ad
Hariri in Tyre?
Why did the leftist Tadamun Club in Tyre host a panel on Rafiq Hariri? What gives?
Posted on February 21, 2009 by As'ad
Sally Quinn and women in the Middle East
Even Sally Quinn has to pontificate on women in the Middle East. This is as offensive as Christopher Hitchens’ pontifications on Lebanese affairs. (thanks Julie)
Posted on February 21, 2009 by As'ad
Hitchens’ heroics battles in the streets of Beirut
“He described how he was knocked to the floor, ended up with his shirt covered with blood after he cut his arm in the fall, and “skinned” two fingers on one hand. Hitchens added that he was walking with a limp for several days after. “They were after me because I was the one who [...]
Posted on February 21, 2009 by As'ad
Jihad Al-Khazin Fled the scene
A producer at Press TV in London told me that Jihad Al-Khazen, who was a guest on the show on Saudi Arabia this morning, came to the studio and then suddenly fled the scene and turned off his mobile just was the show was supposed to start.
Posted on February 21, 2009 by As'ad
OK
“A Pentagon report requested by President Obama on the conditions at the Guantánamo Bay detention center concluded that the prison complies with the humane-treatment requirements of the Geneva Conventions.”
Posted on February 21, 2009 by As'ad
No way
“Sources tell The Cable that Chas W. Freeman, Jr., the former U.S. ambassador to Saudi Arabia, will become chairman of the National Intelligence Council, the intelligence community’s primary big-think shop and the lead body in producing national intelligence estimates.” I don’t believe it, and Zionists in DC will be able to reverse the decision if [...]
Posted on February 21, 2009 by As'ad
Finding Bin Laden
Finding Bin Laden (thanks Saeed)
Posted on February 21, 2009 by As'ad
Obama wars
“The strikes are another sign that President Obama is continuing, and in some cases extending, Bush administration policy in using American spy agencies against terrorism suspects in Pakistan, as he had promised to do during his presidential campaign.”
Posted on February 21, 2009 by As'ad
I told you so, damn it
“The Obama administration, siding with the Bush White House, contended Friday that detainees in Afghanistan have no constitutional rights.”
Posted on February 21, 2009 by As'ad
Dancing terrorists
“A new ambassador of culture will now join Amos Oz and A.B. Yehoshua, and he too will be considered fabulously enlightened – so different from the bloodthirsty soldiers at the checkpoints, the pilots who bomb residential neighborhoods, the artillerymen who shell women and children, and the combat engineers who rip up streets. Here, instead, is [...]
Posted on February 21, 2009 by As'ad
Boycott
“Queers Undermining Israeli Terrorism (QUIT!), a San Francisco Bay Area solidarity group, is calling on international Lesbian, Gay, Bi, Trans and Queer filmmakers not to participate in the Tel Aviv International LGBT Film Festival this June. QUIT!’s call for filmmakers to respect the cultural boycott of Israel initiated by more than 100 organizations of Palestinian [...]
Posted on February 21, 2009 by As'ad
Very funny indeed
““Considering myself a rebel all my life, being hugged by the head of the IDF just before I flew here is kind of weird,†he said. “I’m being harassed by my crew—they think I’m from the Mossad now!— (thanks N.)
Posted on February 21, 2009 by As'ad
Women in Birkinis
The article from CNN about men and their objectification of women in bikinis contained a horrible headline and concluding sentences. It seemed to put the blame on women for the objectification, and not on men. Here is a critique. (thanks Maryam)
Posted on February 21, 2009 by As'ad