Archive for January 29, 2010
Victimhood and skin color
My weekly article in Al-Akhbar: “Victimhood and skin color: The Ethiopian [female workers] on the crashed plane”.
Posted on January 29, 2010 by As'ad
Tibi needs lessons of history
“Racism and hatred for anything that is different, including Arabs, have raised their heads here in Israeli society.” Raised their heads, Mr. Tibi? Sit down in the Knesset and listen. It is part and parcel of this state. Since its founding. No, lo…
Posted on January 29, 2010 by As'ad
Levy
“A thousand speeches against anti-Semitism will not extinguish the flames ignited by Operation Cast Lead, flames that threaten not only Israel but the entire Jewish world. As long as Gaza is under blockade and Israel sinks into its institutionalized…
Posted on January 29, 2010 by As'ad
Australian Classification Board versus women
“”Australian Classification Board (ACB) is now banning depictions of small-breasted women in adult publications and films. They banned mainstream pornography from showing women with A-cup breasts, apparently on the grounds that they encourage paedop…
Posted on January 29, 2010 by As'ad
New York Times gives free excuses to all of Israeli crimes
“Apparently concerned that the protests could spread, the Israeli Army and security forces have recently begun clamping down, arresting scores of local organizers and activists here and conducting nighttime raids on the homes of others.” (thanks Ziy…
Posted on January 29, 2010 by As'ad
EXCLUSIVE…Blackwater’s Youngest Victim:
“Father of 9 Year-Old Killed in Nisour Square Gives Most Detailed Account of Massacre to Date”
Posted on January 29, 2010 by As'ad
This is exactly what the West have in mind when it speaks of reforms
“Yet beneath the kingdom’s glossy surface lies an autocratic underbelly. Despite economic liberalisation, the political reforms of the early 1990s have stalled. While Abdullah talks the language of change, domestic supporters have grown frustrated a…
Posted on January 29, 2010 by As'ad
The New York Times and its Israeli propaganda standards
The Israeli government has not yet released an official response to the Goldstone report. Yet, the New York Times has printed tens of articles in which Israeli military commanders and propagandists were allowed to respond to the Goldstone report. The…
Posted on January 29, 2010 by As'ad
Israel’s dirty feet
“Liberia awarded Israel’s Elenilto Mineral Mining Ltd. the rights to develop the $1.6 billion Western Cluster iron ore project, the West African country’s President, Ellen Johnson-Sirleaf, said.” (thanks Hani)
Posted on January 29, 2010 by As'ad
Zinn
If the New York Times could snicker it would have: “A conventional historical account held no allure; he concentrated on what he saw as the genocidal depredations of Christopher Columbus, the blood lust of Theodore Roosevelt and the racial failings of…
Posted on January 29, 2010 by As'ad
Anthony Shadid
I am not sure that I am happy that a fine foreign correspondent, Anthony Shadid, is working for the New York Times. I have a feeling that he won’t be allowed to touch the Arab-Israeli conflict.
Posted on January 29, 2010 by As'ad
The worst puppet your money can buy
“Moreover, the Palestinian Authority (PA), which Mr Abbas heads, depends on American cash.” (thanks Olivia)
Posted on January 29, 2010 by As'ad
Winning hearts, minds, and buttocks of Muslims
“Saudi Arabia’s Civil Aviation Authority has reportedly received a list of instructions from Washington, saying travelers may be subjected to random manual inspection that includes sensitive body parts like the buttocks. The decision applies not on…
Posted on January 29, 2010 by As'ad
Zionists: occupiers and book burners
“Israel plundered and destroyed tens of thousands of Palestinian books in the years after the State’s establishment, according to a doctoral thesis to be submitted next month by a Ben-Gurion University researcher.” (thanks Ibrahim)
Posted on January 29, 2010 by As'ad
Hizbullah and Iran
I was watching a news show yesterday in which Lebanese journalist, Rafiq Khuri was talking. I really like this man: he is knowledgeable, funny, erudite and is a great conversationalist. He knows Arabic poetry very well, and was a sounding board (at a…
Posted on January 29, 2010 by As'ad
Ethiopian delegation in Lebanon
There was an official Ethiopian delegation in Lebanon. I worried about them in officially racist Lebanon. I imagined that some Lebanese official would order them to go to the kitchen and make coffee.
Posted on January 29, 2010 by As'ad
Davos
I want to visit the town of Davos but I am talking here about the Davos forum. Have there been more boring and silly exercises than those gatherings?
Posted on January 29, 2010 by As'ad
Obama: the Middle East has obviously plagued the region for centuries
“The Middle East has obviously plagued the region for centuries.” If Bush came up with this dumb observation, he would widely mocked. Obama should be equally mocked for this dumb statement. But play the whole clip and see how awful, cowardly, nervous…
Posted on January 29, 2010 by As'ad