Archive for August 27, 2009
Are you positive or negative?
“Contrary to the insistence of Pentagon officials this week that they are not rating the work of reporters covering U.S. forces in Afghanistan, Stars and Stripes has obtained documents that prove that reporters’ coverage is being graded as “posi…
Posted on August 27, 2009 by As'ad
Sexism in Italy
“Italy ranks 67th out of 130 countries considered in a recent report of the World Economic Forum on the Global Gender Gap Index, ranking lower than Uganda, Namibia, Kazakhstan and Sri Lanka.” The article is OK but she talks as if Italy is so far behin…
Posted on August 27, 2009 by As'ad
Who will console AIPAC?
“According to one tally, Ted Kennedy voted 100 percent in concert with positions taken by Aipac, the American Israel Public Affairs Committee. Tom Dine, who served as Aipac’s executive director from 1980-93, was a defense and foreign policy advis…
Posted on August 27, 2009 by As'ad
The military attachés of Egypt and Morocco were also on hand
“The US will always stand by Israel’s side, Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff Navy Adm. Mike Mullen said overnight Thursday during a farewell party for Israel’s military attaché in Washington Major-General Benny Gantz, who will be retuning to Is…
Posted on August 27, 2009 by As'ad
Reforms that meed Western standards
“”These acts contradict the faith and must not be done, taught, spread or encouraged,” religious police spokesman Abdullah al-Mashiti told al-Watan daily this week, referring to circus acts such as fire-eating and lying on beds of glass that he beli…
Posted on August 27, 2009 by As'ad
Dahlan, Le Dahlan
“Mahmoud Abbas n’a pas son charisme, mais le fonctionnement interne du Fatah est aujourd’hui relativement plus démocratique.” Absolutely untrue. Despite Arafat’s autocracy and his desire to dominate the movement, the movement under Arafat allowed m…
Posted on August 27, 2009 by As'ad
UnBoycott
” An online petition calling for a boycott of such Swedish retailers as IKEA, Volvo, H&M and BabyBjörn has garnered more than 12,000 signatures.” Note to self: go to IKEA and buy a Volvo TODAY and try to find babies who can use products from Bab…
Posted on August 27, 2009 by As'ad
Royal Dates: translated
Jamal kindly translated Khalid Saghiyyah’s article, Royal Dates:”Royal Dates Khalid Saghiyah Dates have a special place in the month of Ramadan, and Paletine has a special place in the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia every month of the year. That’s why it…
Posted on August 27, 2009 by As'ad
Zionist discourse
“”Armed barbarians need to be stopped in time for human lives to be saved and civilization secured,” said Netanyahu.” (thanks Sana)
Posted on August 27, 2009 by As'ad
This is Zionism
“One Palestinian fisherman was killed and another wounded on Thursday by Israeli navy fire off the coast of the northern Gaza Strip, a Palestinian health official said.”And look at this language: “He said that 25-year-old Muhammad Nady Al-Attar’s wa…
Posted on August 27, 2009 by As'ad
Hashish: Lebanon’s top export
“Most summers, if Lebanon isn’t paralyzed by war, civil strife or political crisis, security forces make a show of razing hashish fields in the fertile Bekaa Valley, an exercise in futility that leaves enough crops for the drug to remain the count…
Posted on August 27, 2009 by As'ad
A good portion
“There is a tell-all book which is to be published in more than 20 languages, and the author says Nujood will receive a good portion of the royalties.” I am sure. She will get 10 dollars. (thanks Tanweer)
Posted on August 27, 2009 by As'ad
American thoughts on torture
“In contrast with Europeans, who strongly reject the use of torture, the American public is pretty evenly divided about its use to extract information from terrorists (see charts).”
Posted on August 27, 2009 by As'ad
Dictatorships that you like
“Reporters Without Borders condemns the Moroccan government’s surprising decision to deny a visa to Gamal Eid, an Egyptian human rights activist. Eid heads the Arabic Network for Human Rights Information (ANHRI), a Cairo-based group that defends pre…
Posted on August 27, 2009 by As'ad
Hasan Nasrallah and `Abdul-`Aziz Al-Hakim: symptoms of Sectarian Shi`ite solidarity
I saw this telegram that Hasan Nasrallah sent to `Ammar Al-Hakim regarding the death of `Abdul-`Aziz Al-Hakim. The statement talks about “the Jihad and struggle” of Al-Hakim to “rescue” and “uplift” the Iraqi people. Every occupation has its Muhammad…
Posted on August 27, 2009 by As'ad
Kidnapping of a Syrian in Lebanon
If he was a White Man, the Lebanese press would have headlined the story. A Syrian was kidnapped in Lebanon.
Posted on August 27, 2009 by As'ad
‘I was 12 when I was arrested and sent to Guantanamo’
“In December 2002, when he says he was only 12, he was arrested on suspicion of throwing a grenade into a Jeep carrying US special forces soldiers through Kabul, wounding two of them and an interpreter. He was taken first to an airbase north of Kabu…
Posted on August 27, 2009 by As'ad
Those regimes learn from one another
“Saudi Arabia has begun blocking the Twitter pages of activists in a move one man targetted says may be a result of Twitter’s role in publicising Iran’s recent pro-democracy uprising.”
Posted on August 27, 2009 by As'ad
Who is scaring whom? An Israeli soldiers dispays his courage against an unarmed Palestinian child
Who is scaring whom? (AP)
Posted on August 27, 2009 by As'ad
Royal Dates
Comrade Khalid writes about Saudi dates’ donations to Palestinians.
Posted on August 27, 2009 by As'ad