Archive for June 27, 2009
Errors and mistakes in Western reporting
“Lebanon’s Grand Ayatollah Sayyed Mohammad Hussein Fadlallah, once a classmate of Khamenei in the Iranian holy city of Qom….” Only that Fadlallah studied in Najaf and never in Qom. (thanks Christopher)
Posted on June 27, 2009 by As'ad
Isabel Kershner and her Israeli propaganda
Of course, NYT’s Isabel Kershner is incapable of writing anything but crude and vulgar Israeli propaganda. That is her thing. But does she not top herself here: “Instead, Mr. Peres, 85, the last of Israel’s founding fathers in office, seems to hav…
Posted on June 27, 2009 by As'ad
Daily Situation Report: Palestine
Daily Situation Report: Palestine. (thanks Layali)
Posted on June 27, 2009 by As'ad
Saudi intervention
“its effort to recast the entire conflict not as an internal dispute that brought millions of Iranians into the streets, but as one between Iran and outside agents from Europe, the United States and even Saudi Arabia.” The last part of this sentence i…
Posted on June 27, 2009 by As'ad
Sheikh Mo
Sheikh Mo is in Facebook. Yeah. That should save your Dubai and restore its past glory. (thanks Hisham)
Posted on June 27, 2009 by As'ad
Lebanon
I never thought less of Lebanon: mini-Hariri as prime minister is akin to Bashir Gemayyel (the little Lebanese Nazi) as puppet president for Israel.
Posted on June 27, 2009 by As'ad
Pistachio King
Can somebody have the Pistachio King of Iran, Rafsanjani, send me some of his pistachio?
Posted on June 27, 2009 by As'ad
Know your priority
“A deluge of search queries for Michael Jackson led Google News, the news aggregator of Web search engine Google, to initially believe it was under attack, the Internet giant said on Friday.”
Posted on June 27, 2009 by As'ad
Closet racism
““…word went out that Garnier’s hostesses should be BBR — “bleu, blanc, rouge†— the colours of the French flag. The expression is widely recognised in the French recruitment world as a code for white French people born to white French…
Posted on June 27, 2009 by As'ad
Hariri Tribunal
Behind the scenes, and in utmost secrecy, something is going on with the Hariri tribunal investigation. I can report to you form the most reliable sources that the Hariri tribunal has officially moved away from accusing or suspecting the Syrian regime…
Posted on June 27, 2009 by As'ad
Yemen
If I were to select a candidate for the most turmoil and instability in the Arab world in the near future, I select Yemen. The Yemeni dictator there is so nervous and politically insecure that he has become a tool of Saudi Arabia, after being an irrit…
Posted on June 27, 2009 by As'ad
Supreme Iranian Leader
If there is one area of the Iranian political-clerical system that is more at odds with the tradition of Shi`ite theology it is the position of Supreme Leader: or the Guardian Cleric, as the translation should be. In Shi`ite tradition, the Grand Ayatu…
Posted on June 27, 2009 by As'ad
The Wall Street Journal on Shi`ite Theology
It is funny when the Wall Street Journal or the Washington Times pontificate on matters of Islamic theology. Here, the Wall Street Journal was discussing Shi`ite theology: “Syed Ali Amine, the Shiite mufti — or chief religious authority — of Tyre a…
Posted on June 27, 2009 by As'ad
The people versus a celebrity
Just as the Iranian people (or some of them) were about to feel that the West really cares about them, Michael Jackson died. Now they are realizing that no people and no cause (of the brown people) can rise above the status of a major or minor celebrity.
Posted on June 27, 2009 by As'ad
Zizek: the Iran analyst
Amer reminds me that not too long ago Zizek referred to Iran as an Arab country–but that does not stop him from pontificating.
Posted on June 27, 2009 by As'ad
Dahlan Collaboration Gangs
” Israel has agreed to give the Palestinian security forces more freedom of action in four West Bank cities, Israeli and Palestinian security officials said Thursday, a move that implies a reduction in Israeli military activity in those areas as the We…
Posted on June 27, 2009 by As'ad
Heteroclite
Comrade Rami on Iran: “So the protesters are a heteroclite assemblage of small groups and individuals ranging from bourgeois who would like to see Iran join NATO, to extreme leftists. But many if not most of them are not demanding the overthrow of the…
Posted on June 27, 2009 by As'ad