Archive for November 8, 2009
Don’t trust Fath, don’t trust Hamas
“Hamas leader Khaled Mashaal urged Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas on Friday to stop seeking compromise with Israel but offered him an olive branch, saying Palestinians must end their divisions.”
Posted by As'ad at 12:40 PM 11/8/09
Israel’s best friend in the Middle East: Saudi Arabia
“But after four years of working as a maid in Saudi Arabia, she lacks both her passport and the exit permit that would allow her to return to the Philippines. So for three months Delacruz has lived on the pavement under a massive elevated eight-lane…
Posted by As'ad at 12:36 PM 11/8/09
backlash against a book
“And the backlash against my book by Muslim fundamentalists reveals the deep-seated fear that such people have of mainstream Muslims’ efforts to take back the discourse from those who cannot accept shades of grey in life and faith.” Backlash agai…
Posted by As'ad at 12:34 PM 11/8/09
This is the Dubai Model
“Japanese construction companies are facing “serious debt problems” amid issues with being paid for work done in Dubai, a top ranking official has said.” (thanks FT)
Posted by As'ad at 12:24 PM 11/8/09
Israeli occupation sleaze
“Of her own search, the girl said, “They told me to get undressed. I told them they could forget about that. The (female) police officers said to me, ‘Take your clothes off.’ I said, ‘No.’ They told me, ‘You must. Either you do it willingly, or we’l…
Posted by As'ad at 12:23 PM 11/8/09
Israel really hearts Saudi Arabian royal family
“Today King Abdullah bin Abdul Aziz is desperately trying to improve his country’s image abroad and introduce much needed reforms. But he is doing so while facing two very real threats to the stability of his kingdom: AlQaida and the subversive acti…
Posted by As'ad at 12:18 PM 11/8/09
Saudi proaganda and the BBC
Look at this headline on the BBC website: “Saudis ‘push back Yemen rebels’.” Yes, BBC. The Hawthi rebels were invading Saudi Arabia and the Saudi armed forces repulsed them. A very believable story. But then again: where was Britain when Saudi Arab…
Posted by As'ad at 12:16 PM 11/8/09
Alert the neighbors: Thomas Friedman has a “Jordanian friend”
Notice that Zionists always have to make a reference to an “Arab friend”, as if that token reference can conceal their hostility to Arabs. Don’t they know how much they sound like those racists who claim that their “best friends are black”? In fact, …
Posted by As'ad at 12:12 PM 11/8/09
Foreign policy cliches
I wish those US foreign policy pundits would stop vomiting foreign policy cliches from Cold War speeches. “In fact, democracy is a prerequisite to economic growth.” China managed a most dramatic economic growth without democratizing. So spare me ple…
Posted by As'ad at 12:08 PM 11/8/09
He wants to destroy
Speaking to reporters at the Saudi-Yemeni border, Prince Khalid Bin Sultan (who, according to a senior US military source, made more than $500 million in bribes and commissions from the first war on Iraq) said that anybody who steps into Saudi territor…
Posted by As'ad at 12:07 PM 11/8/09
That lousy Syrian regime
Bashshar Al-Asad said in an interview with a Turkish daily that the Turkish government needs to improve its relations with the Israeli government, to facilitate its mediating role between Syria and Israel.
Posted by As'ad at 12:05 PM 11/8/09
The feelings of ADL are hurt
“The Anti-Defamation League (ADL) said the release of the Goldstone Report, which accused Israel and Hamas of committing war crimes during their December January conflict in Gaza, has become “a cause célèbre in the Arab press,” which has churn…
Posted by As'ad at 11:41 AM 11/8/09
26 Palestinian children arrested
In the month of October alone, Israeli occupation troops arrested 26 Palestinian children. (thanks Dina)
Posted by As'ad at 11:39 AM 11/8/09
“Israeli Asks Abbas Not to Step Down”: Sit Ubo, sit.
I love this headline of the New York Times. It really says it all. ““I turn to you as a colleague, don’t let go.”” He should have added: I turn to you as your master. Sit Ubo, sit.
Posted by As'ad at 11:14 AM 11/8/09
Hear Ye, Hear Ye: Saudi commander on the scene
Prince Khalid bin Sultan, the assistant to Prince Sultan, the dead Minister of Defense and his daddy, visited Saudi troops at the border with Yemen. I am mightily amused how the Saudi media are treating Saudi bombing of Yemen as heroic acts.
Posted by As'ad at 11:10 AM 11/8/09
Mubarak rules
Restrictions are placed on the visits to Egyptian Cairo University politics scientist, Hasan Naf`ah, because he heads an anti Mubraka succession coalition.
Posted by As'ad at 10:34 AM 11/8/09
Saudi propaganda outlets
This editor-in-chief of Prince Salman’s mouthpiece, Ash-Sharq Al-Awsat, supports a ban on Al-`Alam TV and Al-Manar TV. He said that they don’t adhere to “professional” journalistic standards. Yes, o Saudi princely propagandist. We learn about profes…
Posted by As'ad at 10:31 AM 11/8/09
Stupid media award
When it comes to Western media awards that deal with the Middle East, there is always such ignorance about the Middle East and its media. An-Nahar (the right-wing, sectarian Christian, racist anti-Syrian) people, anti-Palestinian (people), for example…
Posted by As'ad at 8:40 AM 11/8/09
Howard Schnider: when you are racist and you don’t notice
Look at what Schnider of the Washington Post says here: “The security situation there stands in sharp contrast with that of the Gaza Strip, where the ruling Islamist Hamas movement and other militant organizations have launched thousands of rockets in…
Posted by As'ad at 8:33 AM 11/8/09
