Archive for March 9, 2009

The White Man at AUB

I have told the story before: when I was undergraduate at AUB, I once woke up really angry at the institution. So I made signs in Arabic calligraphy and I wrote (in Arabic): The solution, the Solution: Nationalize the University.” I put them all over campus. Some of you may remember them. I always thought [...]

Posted on March 9, 2009 by As'ad

Female (self)Body Hatred

“As a British psychoanalyst known for your social activism and literary output, you argue in your new book, “Bodies,” that all of the globalized world — men and women alike — is suffering from a warped sense of beauty.What I am seeing is franticness about having to get a body. I wish we could treat [...]

Posted on March 9, 2009 by As'ad

I told you so, damn it

“In Israel, Mrs. Clinton did not publicly broach settlements at all. And she only gingerly raised the issue of border crossings to Gaza, which Israel has mostly kept closed, drawing criticism from European leaders andhuman rights groups.”

Posted on March 9, 2009 by As'ad

One in Seven: in the UK

“One in seven people believe it is acceptable in some circumstances for a man to hit his wife or girlfriend if she is dressed in “sexy or revealing clothes in public”, according to the findings of a survey released today. A similar number believed that it was all right for a man to slap his [...]

Posted on March 9, 2009 by As'ad

Chutzpah

Peres said: “”The struggle to improve women’s place in society is a global issue and I tell our Arab neighbors – your main problem is not Israeli domination but male domination,” he said during the event.” I detest all Arab leaders but I doubt that any of them has been more disgustingly sexist and rapist [...]

Posted on March 9, 2009 by As'ad

Zionist games

“During recent months, children in the southern town of Rahat, near Be’er Sheva, have taken up a new and cruel pastime – burning dogs alive.” (thanks Dan)

Posted on March 9, 2009 by As'ad

Steve Biko

Fahd sent me this: ““Not only have the whites been guilty of being on the offensive, but by some skilful manoeuvres, they have managed to control the responses of the blacks to the provocation. Not only have they kicked the black, but they have also told him how to react to the kick. For a [...]

Posted on March 9, 2009 by As'ad

Josef Joffee

This guy is the Thomas Friedman of Germany. Look at his article here. He does not know any Arabic and the entire article is based on MEMRI’s dispatches. The entire article. He should share his royalties with MEMRI, for potato’s sake.

Posted on March 9, 2009 by As'ad

Israeli media

I stand by this: Israeli media are more willing to print unsubstantiated rumors and allegations than the National Inquirer. Look at this: “Hizbullah’s treasury has recently received no less than USD 1 billion. The bulk of the sum, some USD 600 million, was transferred to the Lebanese terror organization from Iran in a bid to [...]

Posted on March 9, 2009 by As'ad

What happened at the University of Maryland?

A professor at the University of Maryland sent me a letter that the President of the university sent to the faculty. This is a passage: “Last night students leaving a program offered for Palestinian Awareness Week were confronted with anonymous disparaging posters and images that were attributed to no organization or person, and as such [...]

Posted on March 9, 2009 by As'ad

North Korea’s Maximum Leader should learn from this

“Sur ce sol, parmi ce peuple, le Président Moubarak a émergé. Leader exceptionnel de nos forces armées lors de la guerre victorieuse d’octobre. Il est indéniable qu’un leader hors pair sur le champ de bataille soit capable de faire une bonne lecture du champ de bataille, dans toutes ses dimensions et tous ses détails. Il [...]

Posted on March 9, 2009 by As'ad

Isabel Kershner’s standards

I mean that. This woman, Isabel Kershner, deserves a blender for her contributions to Zionist standards of ethnic/racial/religious superiority: “The Shalit saga has gripped the Israeli soul. In a small country where 18-year-olds are conscripted into the army, complete strangers feel intimately connected with the Shalits.” Let me tell her that the 11,000 Palestinian prisoners [...]

Posted on March 9, 2009 by As'ad

Middle East Expertise

Totten: “Of course I was embedded with the United States military and had soldiers from the 82nd Airborne as my own personal bodyguards. Kidnapping me wasn’t an option for the Iraqis I met on the street. Their politeness, however, was optional and given freely. Don’t assume they smiled and said “welcome” just because the Americans [...]

Posted on March 9, 2009 by As'ad

Arafat

Amer sent me this link under the headline “He was such a buffoon.”

Posted on March 9, 2009 by As'ad