Archive for December 6, 2009
Just ask yourselves
Would US newspapers open their pages to anti-Semites who express hostility to Judaism? “Is it accurate to equate political symbols like those used by Communists and Nazis with a religious symbol like the minaret and its accessories of crescent and st…
Posted on December 6, 2009 by As'ad
The worst Palestinian speaks (to the mouthpiece of Prince Salman)
“Fatah Central Committee member and spokesman Mohammed Dahlan said that the Fatah movement is capable under any circumstances of finding an alternative to President Mahmoud Abbas if he continues to refuse to run for a second term in office. Asked a…
Posted on December 6, 2009 by As'ad
This is the Ayatullah republic that the US constructed in Iraq
“Authorities have ordered the closure of all Baghdad nightclubs and dozens of shops selling alcohol, concerned the venues were undermining “public morals,” the city’s governor said on Sunday.”
Posted on December 6, 2009 by As'ad
Israel in brief
“”You are allowed to demonstrate as long as you don’t shout anything irritating. You can mark memorial days, as long as it’s not for the Nakba. You have a right to education, unless you’re from the wrong sector. You should maintain good health on co…
Posted on December 6, 2009 by As'ad
The Quality of Western Press
“On one side is the fashionably dressed Queen Rania of Jordan, an elegant symbol of progressive values for Arab women.” Just as Marie Antoinette was a symbol of French women. (thanks Olivia)
Posted on December 6, 2009 by As'ad
A bar in the southern suburbs of Beirut
For the first time in decades, Hizbullah allows for an opening of a pub in the southern suburbs of Beirut. (thansk Raed)
Posted on December 6, 2009 by As'ad
5 KM
I just heard on NBN News that the Beirut Marathon was a mere 5 KM.
Posted on December 6, 2009 by As'ad
For you, Jamal Mubarak
“Egyptian security services raided a tunnel and two storehouses holding goods to be smuggled through tunnels into the Gaza Strip, following a security operation on the Egyptian border with Rafah on Saturday.”
Posted on December 6, 2009 by As'ad
Firefox
Lately, Firefox slows down and I have to close it and relaunch. If anybody knows of a solution email me NOW.
Posted on December 6, 2009 by As'ad
Learning from the Shah
“Dozens of individuals in the U.S. and Europe who criticized Iran on Facebook or Twitter said their relatives back in Iran were questioned or temporarily detained because of their postings. About three dozen individuals interviewed said that, when t…
Posted on December 6, 2009 by As'ad
Don’t quote this man on the Palestinians in Lebanon please
“”The situation in the camps is beyond what is humanly acceptable,” said Khalil Mekkawi, former head of the Lebanese Palestinian Dialogue Committee that was set up in 2005 to improve living conditions for the refugees. “There is no hope whatsoever f…
Posted on December 6, 2009 by As'ad
Obama’s foreign policy on Qat
“But non-military U.S. aid to Yemen has remained modest; this year totaling $24 million, up from $9.3 million the previous year. The Obama administration has requested about $65 million in counter-terrorism and military assistance. It’s a discomfit…
Posted on December 6, 2009 by As'ad
Zionism is Racism
“The Ministerial Committee for Legislation will vote Sunday on a bill regulating the status of asylum-seekers in Israel. The vote comes after many years without a policy, shirking the international convention on refugees and asylum-seekers.” Of cou…
Posted on December 6, 2009 by As'ad
This is Obama’s strategy: Save Karzai
“After one revelatory discussion about the mission’s goals, administration officials changed their chief objective from trying to eliminate the Taliban to making sure insurgents could no longer threaten the Afghan government’s survival.”
Posted on December 6, 2009 by As'ad
Daniel Pipes: “There are positive examples. The ruler of Dubai, Sheikh Muhammad Bin Rashed Al Maktoum”
“Behind this jolt was one of the world’s most concentrated property bubbles. Some $430 billion worth of construction projects have been scrapped across the United Arab Emirates, a desert country with a population of just 4.5 million and an area smal…
Posted on December 6, 2009 by As'ad
Wahhabi taste
“According to reports during this year’s Hajj, now that the pilgrims have left, the portico around the Kaabah, designed by legendary Ottoman architect Mimar Sinan in the late 1500s, is to be torn down.” But why should that be surprising? The Wahh…
Posted on December 6, 2009 by As'ad
Why is Sheikh Mo not spending?
““It was the first time that anybody can remember that we didn’t see him buy anything,†said Ms Rausing, one of the leading breeders in the UK. There is acute nervousness in racing at events in Dubai and whether they will force Sheikh Mohammed…
Posted on December 6, 2009 by As'ad
US plans to upgrade the Lebanese military
“The Lebanese Air Force — which is due to receive ten Russian MiG-29 jets early next year — will also be the beneficiary of American largesse. In a game of one upmanship reminiscent of the Cold War, the U.S. has promised to supply Lebanon with t…
Posted on December 6, 2009 by As'ad
The Arabs
I just ordered Eugene Rogan’s The Arabs. I love those sweeping history books on the history of the Arabs. But I am critical, as you know by now. I remember when Albert Hourani was spending time at Dartmouth one semester, and he came down to Georgeto…
Posted on December 6, 2009 by As'ad
Professor Richard Antoun
Professor Richard Antoun was killed by his graduate student. Horrific. I never met him but heard good things about his personality. People who worked with him liked him. As for his scholarship, I was not a fan: I felt that his anthropological work …
Posted on December 6, 2009 by As'ad