Archive for September 12, 2009
All that you have done to our people is registered in notebooks
“- A Palestinian child was killed by IOF in the Gaza Strip.- 6 Palestinian civilians, a resistance activist and an Israeli journalist were wounded by IOF gunfire.- IOF used force against peaceful demonstrations organized to protest the construction o…
Posted on September 12, 2009 by As'ad
Israel’s District 9
“An Israeli gunman shot and wounded two Palestinians in East Jerusalem on Friday, and police arrested the suspect at the scene, a police spokesman said.” If the identities were reversed, the news would be on the front page of the New York Times.
Posted on September 12, 2009 by As'ad
Faruq Husni…Mubarak
“Many are outraged by the prospect that one of President Hosni Mubarak’s most trusted minions and his longest-serving minister – not to mention the first lady’s favourite – might actually become the face of global culture, education and science….
Posted on September 12, 2009 by As'ad
Furits of liberation
“It is just one of the prisons in the province where detainees and US forces allege overcrowding, lengthy pretrial detention, and torture used to extract confessions. While the conditions here may be more severe than elsewhere in the country, Iraq’s…
Posted on September 12, 2009 by As'ad
Western standards
“British Prime Minister Gordon Brown apologized Friday for the “inhumane” treatment of Second World War code-breaker Alan Turing, who was convicted of gross indecency for being homosexual at a time when it was illegal in Britain. A mathematician, T…
Posted on September 12, 2009 by As'ad
French racism
“”There always has to be one. When there’s one, it’s OK. It’s when there are a lot of them that there are problems.” These words spoken by France’s interior minister, Brice Hortefeux, were caught on camera last week during the ruling UMP party’s s…
Posted on September 12, 2009 by As'ad
Jordan and Israeli products
Jordan now says that it will continue to import products from Israel but that merchants will have to identify Israeli products to give the buyers a choice. As for the ruler of Jordan, the Jordanian people will not have a choice.
Posted on September 12, 2009 by As'ad
An-Nahar plugs McCain
Notice that An-Nahar (the right-wing, sectarian Christian, anti-Syrian (people), anti-Palestinian (people) newspaper) is plugging the wisdom of McCain about Lebanese affairs. Do you want to bet that McCain can’t name the capital of Lebanon, his readin…
Posted on September 12, 2009 by As'ad
Tunisian repression
“Despite some important achievements in the field of women’s rights, Tunisia has one of the Arab world’s most repressive regimes. It generally escapes criticism by keeping out of international conflicts and dressing up its political system to look v…
Posted on September 12, 2009 by As'ad
Strike
“The increasingly harsh political climate in Israel under Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu’s right-wing government has prompted the leadership of the country’s 1.3 million Arab citizens to call for the first general strike in several years. The on…
Posted on September 12, 2009 by As'ad
Fouad Ajami’s repeated plea: o, White Man. I am just like you. I am not like them, I swear
“Our country answered that call, not always brilliantly, for we are fated to be strangers in that world and thus fated to improvise and make our way through unfamiliar alleyways. We met chameleons and hustlers of every shade and had to learn, in a h…
Posted on September 12, 2009 by As'ad
George Habash
A new book on George Habash has just been published in Arabic: George Habash: the Conscience of Palestine by Mazin Sabbagh. It contains articles (some original and some previously published) about Habash. It contains my article on him that first appe…
Posted on September 12, 2009 by As'ad
Oil wealth
“Rames had spent $20,000 a month on special camel food, and it showed. At the gate his caretakers whipped off the camels’ capes to display their enchanting necks and undeniably symmetrical humps.” (thanks Amir)
Posted on September 12, 2009 by As'ad
Alistair Horne’s Kissinger
You should all read Allistair Horne’s Kissinger, 1973: The Crucial Year. I am referring to chapter 11 about the 1973 war. You read it and realize that Sadat and the Americans prevented the Arabs from winning a decisive victory against the Zionist usu…
Posted on September 12, 2009 by As'ad
Obama wars
“”We didn’t recognise any of the dead when we arrived,” said Omar Khan, the turbaned village chief of Eissa Khail. “It was like a chemical bomb had gone off, everything was burned. The bodies were like this,” he brought his two hands together, his fing…
Posted on September 12, 2009 by As'ad
Saudi princes
This is almost cute. `Azzuz (as Prince `Abdul-`Aziz bin Fahd is known) writes an article in his uncle’s mouthpiece, Ash-Sharq Al-Awsat), and hails his cousin, Muhammad bin Nayif as “a hero.” He also salutes his uncles in the article. It is estimated…
Posted on September 12, 2009 by As'ad