Archive for August 11, 2009
Lebanese irritations: Friends with Hummus
I unfortunately caught a glimpse of the show Friends (which I detest) and it is dubbed in the Lebanese accent on the Lebanese MTV. I can’t translate to the readers the extent to which they are irritating those Lebanese voices on the dubbed show. Ewwww.
Posted on August 11, 2009 by As'ad
Isabel Kershner
She really can’t help herself. This ambassador of the Israeli army in the New York Times can’t help herself: her articles about the Palestinians drips with contempt and scorn. “Yet Fatah, still defining itself as a national liberation movement, is re…
Posted on August 11, 2009 by As'ad
Not like
Did not like this article: it assumes moral equivalence of both sides of the conflict.
Posted on August 11, 2009 by As'ad
How to battle the swine flu: an Israeli fatwawawa
“Dozens of rabbis and Kabbalah mystics armed with ceremonial trumpets took to the skies over Israel on Monday to battle the swine flu virus, according to local media reports.”
Posted on August 11, 2009 by As'ad
City of the dead
“In fact, statistics suggest that one in 18 people in Cairo now live in the City of the Dead. They have stopped asking why.” (thanks Sana)
Posted on August 11, 2009 by As'ad
Central Committee of Thugs
Given the leaked names of the selected members of the Central Committee of Fath, it would be fair to rename it the Central Committee of the Fath Thugs.
Posted on August 11, 2009 by As'ad
Israeli propaganda
I am not exaggerating when I say that Israeli propaganda is now more dumb than Ba`thist propaganda. Here is an example. They make things up and think that we won’t notice. Which reminds me: what happened to the three Iranian soldiers that the Israel…
Posted on August 11, 2009 by As'ad
Thomas Friedman among friends
“Senior New York Times columnist Thomas Friedman gave a lecture last week to a number of members of the IDF General Staff. He spoke to them about his impressions of his recent visits to Arab countries.” (thanks Sophie)
Posted on August 11, 2009 by As'ad
Tarzan: White Man saves African women
“For the women of eastern Congo, a U.S.-backed Congolese military operation meant to save them from abusive rebels has turned into a nightmare of its own.” O White Man. What would Native women do without you. O White Man. Save me, please. It is…
Posted on August 11, 2009 by As'ad
Battered women in the “beacon of freedom”
“Nearly a dozen victims of domestic violence in western Nevada County — women and their children — have had to leave a safe house in the area to find somewhere else to live. As California officials wrestle with a $26.3 billion state budget defi…
Posted on August 11, 2009 by As'ad
women and work in the kingdom of horrors
“The increase in women’s unemployment boosted the percentage of people out of work in the kingdom from 9.8 per cent to 10 per cent over the same period, though this figure was down from August 2007, when unemployment stood at 11 per cent, the depu…
Posted on August 11, 2009 by As'ad
gays in Lebanon
“Even in Beirut, the greater sense of openness and relaxation is relatively new, spurred in part by a rally for GLBT equality sparked when two gay men were attacked and beaten by the police there.” There are problems with this article but I don’t ha…
Posted on August 11, 2009 by As'ad
Iranian injustice
“An Iranian opposition leader has claimed that women and boys detained over the wave of unrest that swept the nation after the disputed presidential election were savagely raped in custody.”
Posted on August 11, 2009 by As'ad
Saudi injustice
“Saudi Arabia’s much praised rehabilitation program for terror suspects is under fire from the US-based Human Rights Watch because its participants are detained for lengthy periods without charges. The program – a key part of Saudi Arabia’s counter…
Posted on August 11, 2009 by As'ad
Culling pigs in Egypt
Culling pigs in Egypt. (thanks Mohammad)
Posted on August 11, 2009 by As'ad
The mess of American foreign policy in the Middle East
The footage of the return of Yemeni cleric Al-Mu’ayyid, told the whole story. Here was a cleric that was made to be a clone of Bin Laden because he was convicted of sending money to Hamas. It looked as if the entire country of Yemen turned out to rec…
Posted on August 11, 2009 by As'ad
The new blood of Fath
“However, it appears clear that nobody who opposed The Machine won. And two of the winners are Mohammad Dahlan and Jibril Rajoub, two former leaders of Fatah/Palestinian Preventive Security (Dahlan in Gaza and Rajoub in the West Bank), who have an i…
Posted on August 11, 2009 by As'ad
Jumblat still sending gifts to American neo-cons
“His former American friends are not amused. “I don’t believe for a minute that he’s sorry he met with the dreaded neocons, and I’m sorry he feels somehow compelled to say that,” said Elliott Abrams, the Bush administration’s deputy national securit…
Posted on August 11, 2009 by As'ad
Jasad
Those Western writers who wrote on Joumana Haddad and her silly (and sleazy) publication, Jasad, don’t read Arabic and thus had to settle to what Haddad (known for fabrications) had told them. Here, Nawal Al-`Ali, writing in Al-Akhbar, sets the record…
Posted on August 11, 2009 by As'ad
Ghassan Al-Imam: Saddam’s chief propagandist
Saddam’s propagandists in the Arab media became orphaned in 1990 when Iraqi cut off funding to its extensive network of publications in the Arab media. Those propagandists quickly transformed their loyalty to Saudi and Hariri media. They were that …
Posted on August 11, 2009 by As'ad