Archive for July 26, 2009
Khumayni versus Sadat
Here, Thomas Friedman does what he does best: offers a silly and very unintelligent cliche about the Middle East, typically reduced to his redundant dualities expressed in English of 8th graders. “Sadat argued that the future should bury the past and …
Posted on July 26, 2009 by As'ad
Review in the New York Times
The reviewer says this about a book that vomits an ideology of hostility against Muslim immigrants: “Bawer is unquestionably correct, and that fact is quite simply ÂÂterrifying.”
Posted on July 26, 2009 by As'ad
Those pesky Palestinians
Patrick Seale on the Palestinians: “while feuding Palestinian factions recklessly squander the unique chance of statehood offered them by the providential figure of U.S. President Barack Obama.” Those Palestinians. Here came the US president offerin…
Posted on July 26, 2009 by As'ad
The language of the New York Times: Fair but…
This is classic: “a general sense of fair-mindedness (except perhaps toward the Arabs)”. So the authors were fair in writing about Israel except in what they wrote about the Arabs. And notice that their unfairness toward Arabs in a book on Israel an…
Posted on July 26, 2009 by As'ad
Freedom of speech in the usurping entity
“during the Gaza war I felt as though every radio station was staffed by propagandists, every newspaper by a government spokesman or spokeswomen. It was not any law which told them to say and write as they did. There was no need for a law – the j…
Posted on July 26, 2009 by As'ad
Humanizing Zionist fascism
This is a book that if it was written about other leaders or country, liberal protesters would show up daily at the publisher’s headquarters. Read what he says about Begin and Sharon: here is an author who find the war crimes of Sharon and Begin to be…
Posted on July 26, 2009 by As'ad
Why Professor Gates should not be insulted
“And Gates says that if anyone thinks he’s a fiery black militant, they’ve got the wrong guy, considering he married a white woman, has mixed-race daughters and has white blood himself.”
Posted on July 26, 2009 by As'ad
The New York Times Found a Pakistani it likes: he is half-white and his name is Daniel
“Mr. Mueenuddin is also a landlord, though he prefers not to think of himself that way. His family’s wealth started in the 18th century with his great-great-great-grandfather, who grew rich as the governor of Kashmir, a territory that is now disputed…
Posted on July 26, 2009 by As'ad
Congressional Zionists now feign sympathy for Iranians
“As an Iranian-American who grew up in Iran, I couldn’t disagree more with my fellow Iranian-American’s opinion that Sen. John McCain cares about human rights in Iran (“An Iranian-American thanks McCain,” Letters, Thursday). I wouldn’t be fooled by th…
Posted on July 26, 2009 by As'ad
American Intervention in Iranian affairs? No way. The US government is far too innocent and would never ever intervene in Iranian affairs.
“The funding increase for “Internet freedom, ’’ as it is called on Capitol Hill, is part of a State Department budget line item labeled Near East Regional Democracy, but details are secret. A Senate budget committee supported the increase, but re…
Posted on July 26, 2009 by As'ad