Archive for August 15, 2009
Jumblat and Hizbullah
Something about Hizbullah’s honeymoon with Jumblat really disgusts me. You can’t argue that any faction in Lebanon is principled: not on the left or right, and not the fundamentalists or the secularists. Don’t pin your hopes on any leader or faction …
Posted on August 15, 2009 by As'ad
He is a movie star, damn it.
“”I told them I am a movie star,” Khan was quoted as saying.”
Posted on August 15, 2009 by As'ad
The real Dubai
“Once Dubai’s most valuable import, foreign laborers have become a liability to their former employers. Hundreds of thousands of them, mostly from South Asia, were drawn by the promise of plentiful work and money to send home to their families. Now …
Posted on August 15, 2009 by As'ad
Absolutely not
“Are you arguing in favor of a one-state solution?MALLEY: Absolutely not. Our work over the years has consistently been about the two state solution.”" (thanks Amer)
Posted on August 15, 2009 by As'ad
24 hours
This blog may some time in the near future disappear or go silent for 24 hours. I have been planning to stay away from the internet for 24 hours: but I have not been able to manage that. But I shall let you know in advance when I start my internet fast.
Posted on August 15, 2009 by As'ad
Jamal Mubarak
Jamal Mubarak talks to bloggers and his daddy jails bloggers. (thanks Dina)
Posted on August 15, 2009 by As'ad
Zionist headlines
Look at this headline in the Washington Post. This always happens in the history of the Arab-Israeli conflict. It starts like this: Israeli leader or leaders make threats against an Arab state or organization or against Iran. Then the Arab state or …
Posted on August 15, 2009 by As'ad
Pro-Western Anti-Semites
I notice this about MEMRI: they are very meticulous in finding evidence (real or imagined) of anti-Semitic expressions in the Arab media that are opposed to US/Israeli wars and foreign policies, and yet they are completely silent when it comes to blata…
Posted on August 15, 2009 by As'ad
A terrorist “peacemaker”
“US Republican Senator John McCain praised Libya’s leader Muammar Gaddafi for his peacemaking role in Africa and said Congress would support expanding ties, Libyan state news agency Jana said on Friday.” (thanks Sana)
Posted on August 15, 2009 by As'ad
An American politician on Israel
Don’t you like it when a dumb American politician who can’t locate the US on a world map waxes on foreign policy? Here is one: “”I’m a big believer that this country was given to the people of Israel a long time ago, by God, and that’s ordained,” Pe…
Posted on August 15, 2009 by As'ad
The Return of Rajjub and Dahlan
Saudi columnist, Dawud Shiryan, mocks the reform of Fath and sarcastically hails the “return of Rajjub and Dahlan.” (thanks Mirvat)
Posted on August 15, 2009 by As'ad
Banning maids from Lebanese swimming pool
Al-Akhbar covers the ban on maids at Lebanese swimming pool.
Posted on August 15, 2009 by As'ad
I don’t like this
I don’t know who did this but I don’t like it. I don’t like the company that I am in and it is made to imply that the motives of all those people are the same. (thanks Samer)
Posted on August 15, 2009 by As'ad
Dahlan, O Dahlan
“A senior leader of the Jihadi Salafi, a radical Sunnite group, announced Friday that his group is seeking to establish an Islamic emirate in the Gaza Strip.”
Posted on August 15, 2009 by As'ad
Rendition: Middle East and its presentation in Hollywood
I did not get to see the movie Rendition when it first came out, but I saw it recently on DVD. I never expect good out of Hollywood: in fact, I expect the worst when liberals tell me that a particular film, like Munich, is “sensitive”, or not that bad…
Posted on August 15, 2009 by As'ad