Archive for October 18, 2009
This is Zionism
“A Palestinian taken by ambulance to a Jerusalem hospital was denied entry by hospital security, which may have been a factor in his death, according to a suit filed last week in the Tel Aviv Magistrate’s Court. The man died en route to another hos…
Posted on October 18, 2009 by As'ad
The puppet has really fallen, and he just can’t get up
“Mahmoud Abbas might as well be considered a dead man; Benjamin Netanyahu and Ehud Barak have killed him. Following a brief and angry meeting, they left a cyanide pill for him on the table and exited the room. He still managed to make two or three t…
Posted on October 18, 2009 by As'ad
Against normalization
A Saudi writer in Al-Watan (the mouthpiece of Prince Khalid Al-Faysal) rails against normalization with Israel. (thanks Haifaa)
Posted on October 18, 2009 by As'ad
The puppet is really falling, and he can’t get up
“A SURGE in support for the militant Hamas organisation has prompted fears in Israel and the West that Mahmoud Abbas, the moderate Palestinian president, may be defeated in his West Bank stronghold in elections next year.” (thanks Dina)
Posted on October 18, 2009 by As'ad
Blame the Lebanese
An “epic” poem about the King of Bahrain–to enter Guinness book. (thanks Ala`a)
Posted on October 18, 2009 by As'ad
The puppet is falling: he can’t get up
“Anger among Palestinians over President Mahmoud Abbas’s original position on a Gaza war report critical of Israel has cost him public support in a rivalry with Hamas, a poll showed on Sunday.” (thanks Ziyaad)
Posted on October 18, 2009 by As'ad
Israeli goods–I mean, bads–in Lebanon
“Judicial authorities are investigating the appearance of a new Israeli product in the Lebanese market, according to pan-Arab daily Asharq al-Awsat, which described the phenomenon as the latest ‘invasion’ of Israeli goods.” The silly and lousy An-N…
Posted on October 18, 2009 by As'ad
What are you running, an airline or a whorehouse?
“In a 1964 Congressional hearing, when airline executives testified that it was imperative for businessmen that attractive women light their cigars and fix drinks, Representative Martha Griffiths said, “What are you running, an airline or a whorehous…
Posted on October 18, 2009 by As'ad
The Potato power
Potato-powered web server. (thanks anonymous)
Posted on October 18, 2009 by As'ad
An-Nahar and its tricks
An-Nahar (the right-wing, sectarian Christian, racist anti-Syrian (people), anti-Palestinian (people) newspaper) has a known trick: it hires Sunni and Shi`ite writers and assigns them to write articles offensive to Sunnis and Shi`ites. It thinks that …
Posted on October 18, 2009 by As'ad
My Alma Matur
My high school, IC in Lebanon, is using an English book using Zionist standards of reference. Like I always despised AUB, I always despised this elitist, classist, and colonialist school that is predicated on the worship of the White Man and on teach…
Posted on October 18, 2009 by As'ad
Self-promoter
Gen. McChrystal is the most energetic self-promoter since the times of Gen. Singlaub. If Harry Truman was president, he would have fired him already. But what bothers me in all those press tributes is that none of them mention the shameful reference …
Posted on October 18, 2009 by As'ad
Shafiq Al-Hut
There was a memorial for Shafiq Al-Hut in Beirut today. I wish I was in Lebanon to offer a tribute.
Posted on October 18, 2009 by As'ad
Suzanne Mubarak has a center
How can you be for peace?
Posted on October 18, 2009 by As'ad
Rain Prayer
The Saudi King (the servitor of the Two Holy sites and the chocolate room in the new Mecca Hotel) ordered a day of national prayer for rain. I wonder if I can ask the Saudi Mufti to hold a special prayer to make the sky rain banana cream pies.
Posted on October 18, 2009 by As'ad
Not a headline
“But Hamas officials in Gaza have also said that they would investigate.” That would be a headline if Israel said that it would investigate.
Posted on October 18, 2009 by As'ad
When NYT writers are permitted to editorialize
Neil MacFarquhar writes for the New York Times. He wrote this article. I noticed that New York Times articles are not permitted to editorialize except in article dealing with Israel and its interests. This sentence got my attention: “The council ha…
Posted on October 18, 2009 by As'ad
Response
So I wrote this yesterday. M.J. Rosenberg, the person who is cited in the article (and in the post) wrote to me this (I cite with his persmission): “For the record. I did not say “first the good news.” That was not part of my quote. I only said t…
Posted on October 18, 2009 by As'ad
Saudi-Zionist alliance: the love story blossoms
So this Arabic website brags that an Arab professor was “chosen” as one of the “best teachers” of Middle East studies. The choice, however, is by Campus Watch: this is like being selected as a top contender for a beauty pageant by the Saudi mufti. Th…
Posted on October 18, 2009 by As'ad