Archive for July 9, 2009
Flash: Musa released.
Hilm Musa has just been released.
Posted on July 9, 2009 by As'ad
Fight
“Morocco’s ambassador to Italy Nabil Benabdallah was sacked from his post after his wife got into a “fight†with the wife of the kingdom’s foreign minister during a fine arts festival in the Italian city of Venice, Moroccan press reports sai…
Posted on July 9, 2009 by As'ad
All that you have done to our people is registered in notebooks
“- A Palestinian child was killed and her father and uncle were wounded by Israeli forces in the Gaza Strip.- Three Palestinian civilians, including two chidden, were injured when Israeli forces used force against peaceful protest against the Annexat…
Posted on July 9, 2009 by As'ad
Azmi Bishara
“The Islamist and former Member of Knesset, Azmi Bishara, “is now in hiding, wanted by Israel for espionage and treason for providing the Hezballah with intelligence during the 2006 war (designed to help it shoot rockets at the Jews).— Bishara…
Posted on July 9, 2009 by As'ad
Where is Hilmi Musa? That lousy Syrian regime
The progressive press in Lebanon, like As-Safir and Al-Akhbar, have not reported on the plight of Hilmi Musa: the Palestinian journalist who works at As-Safir. Hilmi spent years in Israeli jails as an activsit for the Popular Front for the Liberation …
Posted on July 9, 2009 by As'ad
Defending America
“Police found Gardner walking in Seattle’s Capitol Hill neighborhood the following night. They said Gardner, who was carrying a knife, admitted he had “pulled a knife on a Muslim woman earlier in the day because he was ‘doing his part to defend Amer…
Posted on July 9, 2009 by As'ad
Profit
“Influenza experts are recommending an extensive vaccination programme against seasonal flu in developing countries, in part to boost demand for vaccines so that firms can ramp up production to cope with pandemics.” (thanks Ali)
Posted on July 9, 2009 by As'ad
Did Isabel Kershner learn some history?
“Lod’s 75,000 residents are mostly Jewish, with Arabs making up a quarter or more of the population. Previously an Arab city known as Lydda, it was conquered by Israeli forces in July 1948. Most of the Arab residents were expelled — on the perso…
Posted on July 9, 2009 by As'ad
Tricked?
“”He doesn’t support [a Palestinian state],” the father said in a phone interview. “He set conditions that they won’t ever accept. That’s what he told me. He set the conditions and they won’t accept even one of them.” Netanyahu’s office responded by …
Posted on July 9, 2009 by As'ad
suffering
“Netanyahu appears to be suffering from confusion and paranoia. He is convinced that the media are after him, that his aides are leaking information against him and that the American administration wants him out of office. Two months after his visit…
Posted on July 9, 2009 by As'ad
How not to study gender in the Arab world
How not to study gender in the Arab world, by comrade Joseph
Posted on July 9, 2009 by As'ad
Wall Street Journal Original Discovery
The Wall Street Journal correspondent in Beirut–it figures–discovers that that the Iranian people are resorting to the Invisible Strike: “In a novel attempt to outflank government restrictions, opposition supporters alerted one another to take adva…
Posted on July 9, 2009 by As'ad
Israeli scientific discoveries?
A scientist (who does not want to be identified for job reasons) sent me this: “So… A scientific wonder comes out from that ‘beleaguered’ state. An Israeli botanist ‘discovers’ a plant that “irrigates itself’” says Haaretz, with the usual lighthea…
Posted on July 9, 2009 by As'ad
Enough said: no need to read further…ever
“I admit to having voted for [Sami] Gemayel…” Also, in the article, the author identifies purely on his own thorough, James Bond-like investigations, the killers of Pierre Gemayyel. (thanks Souheil)
Posted on July 9, 2009 by As'ad
…while the children of Gaza suffer from starvation and strangulation by Israel and Arab regimes….
“A Bahraini royal mourned him publicly, young Lebanese held a candlelight tribute, Egyptian musicians hailed him as an inspiration. Beyond his global reach, Michael Jackson held a special place in the Muslim world, as one of the first major Western …
Posted on July 9, 2009 by As'ad
Islam and Rapid Ejaculation
“The majority of men who attend the clinic for advice concerning rapid ejaculation are Bangladeshi Muslims. The reasons are unclear. We contend that possible aetiological features include psychosocial and environmental influences.” (thanks Carlos)
Posted on July 9, 2009 by As'ad
What they have to do? Fat chance.
“But for them to get even that far, they must first, he now says, recognize Israel as a Jewish state. This is a new Israeli demand (it first came up during the buildup to the doomed Annapolis summit in November 2007), the latest in a sequence of suc…
Posted on July 9, 2009 by As'ad
The New York Times continues to justify the Honduran Coup
“Mr. Zelaya, a close ally of the Venezuelan president, Hugo Chávez, has been accused of flouting the law in an effort to amend the Constitution so he can run for re-election. His opponents — who include a broad cross-section of Honduran society — …
Posted on July 9, 2009 by As'ad