Archive for January 22, 2010
Bandar Bush
My weekly article in Al-Akhbar: “Bandar Bush: The Seeker of the Throne, Prematurely”
Posted on January 22, 2010 by As'ad
Not true
All rumors to the contrary notwithstanding, this site is not being turned over by NBC to Jay Leno.
Posted on January 22, 2010 by As'ad
In Beirut
I was drinking ginger drink here. Raed Charaf took this picture.
Posted on January 22, 2010 by As'ad
In Beirut
I was drinking ginger drink here. Raed Charaf took this picture.
Posted on January 22, 2010 by As'ad
`Ammar Al-Hakim
`Ammar Al-Hakim spoke on NBN TV. He said that he supports resistance “in the right frames and contexts.” I kid you not. This is like Dahlan speaking about Palestinian resistance. He said that his movement pursued “political resistance.” Not to be …
Posted on January 22, 2010 by As'ad
`Ammar Al-Hakim
`Ammar Al-Hakim spoke on NBN TV. He said that he supports resistance “in the right frames and contexts.” I kid you not. This is like Dahlan speaking about Palestinian resistance. He said that his movement pursued “political resistance.” Not to be …
Posted on January 22, 2010 by As'ad
Genetic gifts arguments, in the NYT
“But places like Silicon Valley and Tel Aviv are created by a confluence of cultural forces, not money. The surrounding nations do not have the tradition of free intellectual exchange and technical creativity.” If this geneticist would bother to vis…
Posted on January 22, 2010 by As'ad
`Abdur-Rahman Munif
A tribute to `Abdur-Rahman Munif by comrade Fawwaz. (thanks Farah)
Posted on January 22, 2010 by As'ad
Director of Lebanon’s Public Security files a suit against Khalid Saghiyyah
The director of Public Security in Lebanon has just filed a libel and defamation suit against editor-in-chief of Al-Akhbar, Khalid Saghiyyah. This is the offending article and this is the text of the official suit:ادعى المديرالعام لل
Posted on January 22, 2010 by As'ad
Israel theft and occupation
“The prickly problem is the fate of Ajami’s 20,000 Arab residents, 80 percent of whom live below the poverty line. About a quarter of them live in state-run “Absentee Ownership” properties, which the Israeli government now wants to sell. Israel say…
Posted on January 22, 2010 by As'ad
The puppet was invited, and the puppet accepted
“Palestinian National Authority Prime Minister Salam Fayyad will participate in the Herzliya Conference early next month with Israeli Defense Minister Ehud Barak, organizers of the annual Israeli strategy conference said Wednesday in a potentially e…
Posted on January 22, 2010 by As'ad
On Jared Malsin
“Jared signed the document offered to him, and composed an additional note at the request of an Israeli official — apparently in the belief that this was part of his own legal strategy.” (thanks anonymous)
Posted on January 22, 2010 by As'ad
Occupation on facebook
“In what could be seen as a new front in cyber diplomacy or a naive gesture, depending on your point of view, the US embassy in Baghdad launched a Facebook page on Thursday to “reach out to Iraqis.”" Don’t you want to meet those people who come up w…
Posted on January 22, 2010 by As'ad
Political repression in Israel
“It is hard to conceal the political nature of Salah’s trial, however. Salah, the head of the extra-parliamentary Islamic movement, has been identified by the security apparatus as a threat to the ideology of the state and was the target of several …
Posted on January 22, 2010 by As'ad
Mistakes happen
NATO is always innocent. Why do people pick on NATO? Just because they bomb and shoot and kill civilians? How unfair. “NATO said Wednesday’s raid in the Qara Bagh district targeted a Taliban commander and the four killed were suspected insurgents, …
Posted on January 22, 2010 by As'ad
`Ammar Al-Hakim in Beirut
I saw a press conference by this leader of the Badr Shi`ite sectarian militia in Beirut. He met with everybody there. But the press grilled him. He paid tributes and praised armed resistance against Israeli occupation. He even laid a wreath at the …
Posted on January 22, 2010 by As'ad
This is Zionism
“The Jerusalem District Court on Friday released to house arrest a policemen suspected to be at the center of an abuse case involving a Palestinian detainee in Hebron.” (thanks Sarah)
Posted on January 22, 2010 by As'ad
When the lousy Lebanese state is ahead of Israel in press freedoms
“”How many journalists were arrested or sentenced to prison in Lebanon or Kuwait this year? None,” Dollet said, explaining the placement of Lebanon, Kuwait and the United Arab Emirates all above Israel in the annual rankings. “How many journalists w…
Posted on January 22, 2010 by As'ad
UAE miracle of repression
“The financial crisis and now two criminal cases that have generated critical headlines in other countries have demonstrated that the emirates remain an absolute monarchy, where institutions are far less important than royalty and where the law is part…
Posted on January 22, 2010 by As'ad
Israeli “charity”…and its war crimes
There is now war crime perpetrating nation that is more self-congratulatory than Israel. You need to read the propaganda piece by none other than Ethan Bronner in today’s Times. I mean, this is a correspondent who seeks a “former” government spokespe…
Posted on January 22, 2010 by As'ad