Archive for May 4, 2009
Thugs’ Militias
“IRAQ is threatened by a new wave of sectarian violence as members of the “Sons of Iraq†– the Sunni Awakening militias that were paid by the US to fight Al-Qaeda – begin to rejoin the insurgency.” But I thought that the Awakening militias a…
Posted on May 4, 2009 by As'ad
Moderate Arab…torturers
“As more videotapes emerge documenting the torture inflicted on numerous victims by Sheikh Issa bin Zayed al-Nahyan, a prince of the United Arab Emirates, the controversy is beginning to jeopardize the UAE’s relationship with the United States, a co…
Posted on May 4, 2009 by As'ad
Centrist Zionism
“Tzipi Livni, another so-called centrist, holds similar discriminatory views. On January 23, 2002, she urged members of the Knesset to reject an equal-protection clause according to which equality is the right of every citizen in the state regardles…
Posted on May 4, 2009 by As'ad
King Husayn, 1966: from unclassified US documents
“He has been–and would be–able to live with an occasional nighttime foray by Israeli forces resulting in the destruction of, say, a police station and a few houses.” (The document may not link so you can search the title on the site as “Current prob…
Posted on May 4, 2009 by As'ad
PA’s Prisons: DahlanStan
“The PA in Ramallah under Mahmoud Abbas, whose term in office expired last January, is planning to build 52 new prisons in various West Bank areas, senior security sources revealed on Saturday.” (thanks Sana)
Posted on May 4, 2009 by As'ad
House of Saud rules
“An Indonesian housemaid has been hospitalized with severe injuries, allegedly inflicted by her employer and his wife. “My sponsor struck me with an electric wire and then burned various parts of my body and broke my front teeth,†Naser Al-Danda…
Posted on May 4, 2009 by As'ad
This is Zionism
“Data collected by Physicians for Human Rights-Israel “indicates a rise in the number of Palestinian patients interrogated and forced to provide information as a precondition to exit Gaza for medical care,” it said. “Between January 2008 and March 2…
Posted on May 4, 2009 by As'ad
terrorist cell
“According to Israeli police, nine Bedouin Arabs from the town of Shfaram in Israel have been arrested as a ‘terrorist cell’ for throwing stones at Israeli cars while Israel was invading Gaza in January.” (thanks Olivia)
Posted on May 4, 2009 by As'ad
Walid Jumblat
How can anyone take Walid Jumblat and his utterances seriously? I mean, really. Yesterday, on the anniversary of the founding of his oddly named, Progressive Socialist Party, he called for a socialist revolution against world capitalism and he blamed…
Posted on May 4, 2009 by As'ad
Letter to William Marling: about Lebanon
An AUB graduate student, Nate George, sent a letter to William Marling regarding his article in the Wall Street Journal. (I cite with Nate’s permission): “Your article “Why Jane Fonda Is Banned in Beirut: Anti-Semitism leads to startling censorship …
Posted on May 4, 2009 by As'ad
The Succession of a Curse
By Egyptian journalist, `Abdul-Halim Qandil (who was beaten up by Mubarak goons a few years ago).
Posted on May 4, 2009 by As'ad
Another Syrian “dies” in Lebanon
A Syrian dies in Lebanon because he fell. Human Rights Watch issued a statement saying that their staff does not have time to follow the cases of dead Syrian workers and foreign maids in Lebanon because they are busy with the cases of Israeli collabo…
Posted on May 4, 2009 by As'ad
Syrian ban on Facebook
Syrian official, Buthayna Sha`ban, explains that Facebook is banned in Syria because Israelis try to engage Syrians in “dialogue.” (thanks Aghyan)
Posted on May 4, 2009 by As'ad