Archive for June 22, 2009
Washington Post on one suicide bombing
“”In an act fraught with symbolic significance, a suicide bomber blew himself up at the mausoleum of the father of Iran’s Islamic revolution, Ayatollah Ruhollah Khomeini, while unrest continued across Tehran in defiance of a ban on demonstrations.”" I…
Posted by As'ad at 4:57 AM 06/22/09
Crimes that go on unnoticed
“It apparently takes American pressure to get the Israeli military to allow 350 cows into Gaza today — the first in nine months. This, it should be noted, is for 1.5 million human beings.” (thanks Olivia)
Posted by As'ad at 4:55 AM 06/22/09
Threat?
This sentence appears twice in this article: “Israel sees Iran’s nuclear development as a threat, due in part to Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad’s calls for Israel to be destroyed.” Notice that “due in part” appears also twice. What does that me…
Posted by As'ad at 4:47 AM 06/22/09
Mujahidin
I am aware that there are good people among the demonstrators and that there are people who don’t like Moussavi. But it is important to dissociate any struggle agianst the Iranian regime from the lousy Moussavi who–like the regime of Ahmadinajad–has…
Posted by As'ad at 4:38 AM 06/22/09
There are good protesters and bad protesters
“While Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu was making a major foreign policy speech at Bar-Ilan University Sunday, Israeli police outside the university attacked international protesters of Israel’s invasion of Gaza, illegal settlements and the a…
Posted by As'ad at 4:26 AM 06/22/09
Colonialism in the 21st century: classic
“The international community’s envoy in Bosnia moved Friday to invoke extraordinary legal powers over the country after Bosnian Serb leaders passed legislation that he said undermined the Dayton peace accords, which ended Bosnia’s brutal war in 1995.” …
Posted by As'ad at 4:20 AM 06/22/09
