Archive for September 9, 2009
31st time
“For the 31st time, Israeli Authorities demolished huts and removed tents used by the residents of the unrecognized Tawil Abu Jarwal Arab village in the Negev.” (thanks Marcy)
Posted on September 9, 2009 by As'ad
Those poor traumatized…Israeli terrorist occupiers
“The emotional traumas of young Israeli soldiers drafted into the war with Lebanon in the 1980s are recounted through the eyes of a tank crew in this wrenching concentration of raw emotion directed by Samuel Maoz.”
Posted on September 9, 2009 by As'ad
Apartheid regimes
“Behind the scenes, Israel also sold arms and sent military experts. Secret funding from the United States Central Intelligence Agency was channeled by American trade unions to the Histadrut labor federation, and from the Israeli union to Africa to …
Posted on September 9, 2009 by As'ad
“Either drunk or too hungover”
“Alcohol has been banned from Nato’s headquarters in Afghanistan in the wake of an airstrike that killed up to 70 civilians. US General Stanley McChrystal, head of the International Forces in Afghanistan (Isaf), decided to bar boozing after launchin…
Posted on September 9, 2009 by As'ad
Mubarak police
“Egyptian police shot dead four African migrants as they tried to slip across the sensitive Sinai desert border into Israel on Wednesday, security sources said.” (thanks Olivia)
Posted on September 9, 2009 by As'ad
Foreign maids in the Middle East
Saudi columnist, Dawud Ash-Shiryan, on the plight of foreign maids in Lebanon. (thanks Mirvat)
Posted on September 9, 2009 by As'ad
All that you have done to our people is registered in notebooks
“A new report published Wednesday by rights group B’Tselem reveals that the IDF killed 1,387 Palestinians, 773 of whom were non-combatants.” (thanks Sarah)
Posted on September 9, 2009 by As'ad
Faruq Husni…Mubarak
“President Hosni Mubarak’s culture minister since 1987, Hosni has been one of the leading protagonists of government censorship in the Arab Republic of Egypt during this period, constantly seeking to control both press freedom and his fellow citiz…
Posted on September 9, 2009 by As'ad
Tikrit University rules
Tikrit University in US-occupied Iraq rejects a PhD dissertation because it deals with a poet who is Shi`ite born, atheist and communist. (thanks Hassan)
Posted on September 9, 2009 by As'ad
Mubarak qui rit
Egyptian police arrests those who are not fasting in Egypt. (thanks Aly)
Posted on September 9, 2009 by As'ad
Saudi jails
“In Jeddah prison I met hundreds of inmates from Burma (Myanmar). Thousands of Burmese Muslims from Arakan – often called Rohingyas – were offered permanent residence in Saudi Arabia by King Faisal but with the change of rulers in Riyadh the rul…
Posted on September 9, 2009 by As'ad
Jane Fonda loves Israeli wars, she swears
“I have been to Israel many times. The first was in the early 1980s and it was love at first sight…for the country and for its people. I stayed in a Kibbutz with the great Israeli novelist, Amos Oz, and his family. I raised money for a senior cent…
Posted on September 9, 2009 by As'ad
Nepalese maid dead in Lebanon
A Nepalese maid “fell” from a balcony and died in Lebanon.
Posted on September 9, 2009 by As'ad
Conspiracy? What conspiracy?
Is it a mere coincidence that US (Zionist) media AND Saudi Arab media are all vomiting fawning articles about Salam Fayyad AND at the same time? Here is another one from the mouthpiece of Prince Salman, Ash-Sharq Al-Awsat.
Posted on September 9, 2009 by As'ad
who cares about expertise?
“Mr Keller was not an obvious choice for the job — he spoke no Middle Eastern languages, and was not an expert on al-Qaeda or Pakistan.”
Posted on September 9, 2009 by As'ad
Nicholas Kristof: clueless AND very boring (and wants to talk about gender)
“By locating the problems they describe in the “developing world,†Mr. Kristof and Ms. WuDunn surely paint too rosy a picture of what happens to women in richer countries. There, they say, “discrimination is usually a matter of unequal pay or und…
Posted on September 9, 2009 by As'ad
A Jubran memorial in Boston
When I first visited Boston in 1989 to teach at Tufts University, I immediately asked my Palestinian friend who had lived in Boston for years to take me to the Jubran (you call him Kahlil Gibran here in the US) memorial in Boston near the Public Librar…
Posted on September 9, 2009 by As'ad
In the service of Mubarak
“Even Israel, which spent months attacking Hosni’s candidacy, has backed off in recent months. Foreign Ministry officials said they got orders to drop the opposition after Prime Minister Binyamin Netanyahu visited Cairo in May seeking Mubarak’s coopera…
Posted on September 9, 2009 by As'ad
Nominated for prizes
“Bouthaina Shaaban is Political and Media Advisor at the Syrian Presidency, and former Minister of Expatriates. She was the spokesperson for Syria. She was nominated for Nobel Peace Prize in 2005.” There is no need for bragging here. I, for example, …
Posted on September 9, 2009 by As'ad
Polling Arabs
You have to read this poll about Palestinian and Arab attitudes to Israel and Arab-Israeli peace to realize the errors, fallacies, and mistakes in Western polling of Arabs. Notice that the interviews were conducted in face-to-face interviews: pollster…
Posted on September 9, 2009 by As'ad