Archive for October 28, 2009
Mufti Juzu: and the “pro-Western” March 14 Movement
It is always amusing when Western reporters describe March 14 as “pro-Western.” This Mufti of Mount Lebanon is a key Hariri cleric and champion of March 14. This translation is from Mideast Wire: “On October 25, the Lebanese News Agency reported: “I…
Posted on October 28, 2009 by As'ad
Arab liberals
Now of course, I have always said that Arab liberals (supporters and tools of the Arab authoritarian regimes and fans of Mubarak, `Abdulallah and `Abdullah) who champion peace with Israel are almost always rabid anti-Semites (in Arabic). But of course…
Posted on October 28, 2009 by As'ad
Nasser and Egyptian Jews
“Until Egypt’s Jews were expelled by Gamal Abdel Nasser in the 1950s and ’60s, Egypt had a millennia-old, thriving Jewish community.” What? When did that happen? See how Zionist operate? If Jews stay in an Arab country, the Zionists in the West scr…
Posted on October 28, 2009 by As'ad
Why not 2 million more troops? Or 10 million?
“There are already more than 100,000 international troops in Afghanistan working with 200,000 Afghan security forces and police. It adds up to a 12-1 numerical advantage over Taliban rebels, but it hasn’t led to anything close to victory. Now, the …
Posted on October 28, 2009 by As'ad
Democracy
Now really. Between the Sahwah tribal gangs in Iraq, and the Qandahar Strike Force in Afghanistan, is it not fair to say that liberation of women and men is guaranteed?
Posted on October 28, 2009 by As'ad
Lashes, lashes, and more lashes
“Abdul Jawad was sentenced to five years in jail and 1,000 lashes earlier this month. Three friends who appeared on the show with him got two-year terms and 300 lashes each. And LBC, which is owned by the Saudi billionaire investor Prince Alwaleed B…
Posted on October 28, 2009 by As'ad
Chronicle of Zionist occupation
“Israeli police raided and dismantled on Wednesday a sidewalk tent set up by a Palestinian family evicted by Israeli orders from their East Jerusalem home in August.”
Posted on October 28, 2009 by As'ad
Salam Fayyad
A colleague (who does not want to be identified) sent me this (I cite with his/her permission): “My parents are here on a visit and I was talking to my father yesterday and he told me that he knows salam fayyad’s father and grandfather quite well. …
Posted on October 28, 2009 by As'ad
Destroying homes
Israeli occupation forces destroyed nine Palestinian homes in occupied Jerusalem. (AP)
Posted on October 28, 2009 by As'ad
As usual: “terrorist” schemes that you read about originate with an FBI informant
“The men, Patrick Nayyar of Flushing and Conrad Stanisclaus Mulholland, agreed to sell guns, ammunition, vehicles, bullet-resistant vests and night vision goggles to a man who represented himself as a member of Hezbollah but was an F.B.I. informant, of…
Posted on October 28, 2009 by As'ad
John Brown a terrorist?
This is the first time I see a reference to John Brown as a terrorist.
Posted on October 28, 2009 by As'ad
For all of you Obama fans
“America’s commitment to Israel is not just a slogan and not something we signed on easily.”"
Posted on October 28, 2009 by As'ad
The freedom to kill and massacre: disgrace unto the nations
“Vice Prime Minister Moshe Ya’alon on Wednesday said he is “willing to forgo visits to European capitals and to allow the Israel Defense Forces the freedom to act.”" (thanks Olivia)
Posted on October 28, 2009 by As'ad
The French ambassador in Lebanon
A Western reader sent me this from Lebanon (he/she does not want to be identified): “right wing only begins to scratch the surface. YOU DIDN’T HEAR THIS FROM ME but apparently the word at soirees hosted by the embassy is that Ras en-Nebaa is to be …
Posted on October 28, 2009 by As'ad
If you can’t defeat them, pay them
“The US military in Afghanistan is to be allowed to pay Taliban fighters who renounce violence against the government in Kabul.” (thanks Raj)
Posted on October 28, 2009 by As'ad
Foreign maids in Lebanon
Jihad Bazzi in As-Safir. (thanks As`ad–not me)
Posted on October 28, 2009 by As'ad
The PA buffoon has spoken
“”You’re presenting us as ‘untrustworthy bastards,’ while the fact of the matter is that you’re the ones foot-dragging and refusing to end the occupation,” Saeb Erekat told Army Radio.” I am surprised that in this interview he did not offer his typi…
Posted on October 28, 2009 by As'ad
Suicie of foreign maids in the Middle East: the case of Kuwait
A reader sent me links regarding suicide of foreign maids in Kuwait: “A Sri Lankan maid sustained injuries and fractures after a failed attempt to commit suicide in Mubarak Al-Kabeer due to cruelty inflicted on her by her Kuwaiti employer, reports A…
Posted on October 28, 2009 by As'ad
Politicizing Goldstone
A group of students at Berkeley Law School were (and are) preparing a panel on the Goldstone Report. Some students wanted to invite me to be on the panel. Others protested saying that I would “politicize” the panel. I was amused: as if the Goldstone…
Posted on October 28, 2009 by As'ad
Prince Sultan
I received queries by readers about the health status of Prince Sultan bin `Abdul-`Aziz. He is quite dead, and is getting more dead by the hour. I thought that you should know.
Posted on October 28, 2009 by As'ad