Archive for April 19, 2009
Israel’s dirty hands
“One of the Liberal Democrats’ most generous donors has been accused of accepting tens of millions of pounds in kickbacks from an arms deal between an Israeli company and the Indian government.” (thanks Sellam)
Posted on April 19, 2009 by As'ad
Dumb Zionism
“The Beirut-based Arab language newspapers Al-Akhbar and A-Safir reported that the officer, who goes by the code name “Adib”, was suspected of heading a spy ring that passed along information to Israeli intelligence.” Israeli newspapers are so dumb som…
Posted on April 19, 2009 by As'ad
This is Zionism
Israeli terrorist soldiers killing a demonstrator. (thanks Brian)
Posted on April 19, 2009 by As'ad
Radical Leftists
“In the space between the radical ideologists on the right end of the political spectrum here and the radical leftists who desire equality for all, this clearly must be the solution.” I mean how awful. How horrible. Can you imagine those radical lefti…
Posted on April 19, 2009 by As'ad
He is Fired
“Denis Rancourt was recently fired from the University of Ottawa for granting all of his advanced students an A+. In a recent turn of events, Rancourt posted a statement on April 10 arguing that his forceful dismissal from tenure was caused by his crit…
Posted on April 19, 2009 by As'ad
Chaos and Revolution in Egypt? No way.
“On Saturday, the state-sponsored daily al-Ahran blamed al-Jazeera for collaborating with Arab sources attempting to “create chaos within Egypt to push forth a revolution.”" Since when is a Revolution a bad thing? (thanks Marcy)
Posted on April 19, 2009 by As'ad
Ads
If you see any offensive google ads on this blog, you need to send me the url of the ad and I can easily block it.
Posted on April 19, 2009 by As'ad
Tarsh Al-Bahr
“Many traditional Arabs from Nejd, the central Saudi heartland, used to refer to all outsiders as “tarsh al bahr†— vomit from the sea. People of African descent still face some discrimination, as do most immigrants, even from other Arab countrie…
Posted on April 19, 2009 by As'ad
The piano tune of normalization
“Unfortunately, not all Egyptians believe that Barenboim’s visit to Egypt is a good idea. On the Angry Arab blog, the writer tells of his “distrust†of a man who worked for many years with Said in order to build bridges between Israeli and Palest…
Posted on April 19, 2009 by As'ad
Iraq:free, sovereign, and democratic
““Every time we said to the government, ‘You have to let this guy go,’ they do it, which they wouldn’t if they thought he was really dangerous,†the American said.” What is “dangerous”? Dangerous to Iraq or to US? Also, is it not nice how …
Posted on April 19, 2009 by As'ad
Good killers versus bad killers
“First Lt. Jobie Siemer, of the First Battalion, 505th Parachute Infantry, who has worked closely with Sheik Maher in Hawr Jab, said, “There are a lot of good people around here who I know killed a bunch of people, but they were defending their land …
Posted on April 19, 2009 by As'ad
The Mummified President
Karim kindly and quickly translated my latest article from Al-Akhbar.The Mummified President: Or the Follower of the Follower. The crisis between Hezbollah and the regime in Egypt has been branching out leading the Al-Arabiya channel to give the m…
Posted on April 19, 2009 by As'ad
Freedom and sovereigny in Iraq
I can’t think of a country with more sovereignty or freedom than Iraq-under-occupation. I really mean that, and I am not joking. I mean look at this: “The military is determined to intervene if necessary, Colonel Kulmayer said, and has already in th…
Posted on April 19, 2009 by As'ad