Archive for July 19, 2009

It just happens

“On 30 March this year, Sulim Yamadayev was shot dead in the car park of his Dubai apartment. A week later the Dubai police issued an international arrest warrant for a man named Adam Delemkhanov. It just happens that Mr Delemkhanov is Ramzan Kadyro…

Posted by As'ad at 10:28 AM 07/19/09

Al-Arabiyya propaganda

The pro-Moroccan King propaganda on the TV station of the brother-in-law of King Fahd (Al-Arabiyya TV) continues. One reports claimed that the king is dubbed the “king of the poor.” The title apparently is bestowed on the royal family for embezzling …

Posted by As'ad at 9:57 AM 07/19/09

Land theft

“The West Jerusalem municipality ordered Palestinian Ali Ibrahim Salah out of his home and off his lands Thursday following a court decision that found the land belonged to the Jewish Agency.” And Angry Arab Agency found that the entire land of Pale…

Posted by As'ad at 9:54 AM 07/19/09

Alice Walker on Gaza

“And so I have been, once again, struggling to speak about an atrocity: This time in Gaza, this time against the Palestinian people. Like most people on the planet I have been aware of the Palestinian –Israeli conflict almost my whole life. I was …

Posted by As'ad at 9:52 AM 07/19/09

American Zionist Hoodlums to the rescue

“One day after an Israeli group released a 112-page booklet of soldier testimonies alleging the military had a lax open-fire policy during Israel’s 22-day January offensive in Gaza, soldiers organized by an American non-profit have recorded their …

Posted by As'ad at 9:50 AM 07/19/09

Israeli standards of repression

“Member of Knesset Ahmad Tibi expressed his wonder and satisfaction at the fact that the police has yet to kill any protestor during the haredi riots in Jerusalem. This, he said “despite the fact that protestors have hurt policemen and disrupted li…

Posted by As'ad at 9:48 AM 07/19/09

Saudi royal reforms that impressed Rice

“Saudi Arabia’s only film festival has been cancelled, dealing a blow to hopes of an easing of clerical control over culture in a country where cinemas had been banned for almost three decades. Mamdouh Salem, one of the organisers of the Jeddah Film…

Posted by As'ad at 9:44 AM 07/19/09

Zionist lies

“The Pope and the cardinals of the Vatican help organize tours of Auschwitz for Hezbollah members to teach them how to wipe out Jews, according to a booklet being distributed to Israel Defense Forces soldiers. Officials encouraging the booklet’s di…

Posted by As'ad at 9:41 AM 07/19/09

Private Palestinian lands

“Attorney General Menahem Mazuz has told police to investigate workers from the World Zionist Organization’s settlement division on suspicion of knowingly allocating private Palestinian land for construction in the settlement of Ofra, Channel 2 repo…

Posted by As'ad at 9:38 AM 07/19/09

Why the New York Times opposes Aziz in Mauritania

“Mr. Aziz has cultivated the small Islamist base, shutting down the Israeli Embassy”. As if shutting down the embassy of the usurping entity was only the demand of the Islamist base when in reality the anti-normalization camp in Mauritania is led by s…

Posted by As'ad at 9:35 AM 07/19/09

Financial Backing for NYT’s favorite Coup

“Financial backing for the coup is identified by some as coming from the pharmaceutical industry, which fears Mr Zelaya’s plans to produce generic drugs and distribute them cheaply to the impoverished majority in Honduras, who lack all but the most …

Posted by As'ad at 9:33 AM 07/19/09

Why Zionism-is-Racism

“Legislation that Israel’s Arab citizens fear could limit their freedom of speech came a step closer on Sunday to becoming law. The bill, proposed by a legislator from the ultranationalist Yisrael Beitenu party of Foreign Minister Avigdor Lieberman, …

Posted by As'ad at 9:31 AM 07/19/09

The real Rafsanjani: the symbol of the corruption of the Iranian Revolution

Elaine Sciolino is right here: “Still, it would be wrong to say that Mr. Rafsanjani has suddenly become a proponent of justice, human rights and freedom. In the summer of 1999, after all, when the government crushed student demonstrations at Tehran U…

Posted by As'ad at 9:28 AM 07/19/09

I don’t buy this story

“Another official, speaking not for attribution, said last month that the 85-year-old Saudi monarch had launched a tirade during Obama’s long meeting in Riyadh, and that other Saudi officials had later apologized to the U.S. president for the king’s…

Posted by As'ad at 9:24 AM 07/19/09

Amy Goodman corrects Howard Dean (who was championing Colonial Feminism)

“AMY GOODMAN: We just interviewed an Afghan parliamentarian, Dr. Wardak. She said the opposite. She said, yes, she agrees with you on the way women are treated, but that this is worsening the treatment, that the increased number of civilian deaths i…

Posted by As'ad at 9:22 AM 07/19/09

How to decect Israeli intelligence sources in US media

In fact it is quite obvious. When you read a suspicious-sounding story on the Middle East in the US media, always look for the transliteration and corruption (often extreme) of Arabic words in the story. When you read the letter “kh” inserted where i…

Posted by As'ad at 9:16 AM 07/19/09