Archive for February 3, 2010
Repression that you find “moderate”
“Jordan’s Court of Cassation, the country’s highest judicial authority, issued an opinion last week stating that Web sites can be classified as “publications†and recommending that the Press and Publications Law be extended to online news sites…
Posted on February 3, 2010 by As'ad
career
If I don’t do anything in my life, I want to bring categorical rejection of Israel back in fashion. I hope I have already.
Posted on February 3, 2010 by As'ad
You will not be accepted; you are rejected. You are hated in the region. Only the pro-US despots like you. That is why you will not last among us
“Egypt’s journalists union suspended the editor of the magazine “October” for visiting Israel, while another editor was warned for meeting with Israel’s ambassador to Cairo.”
Posted on February 3, 2010 by As'ad
Israel dumb disinformation
There should be a regular feature on this blog dedicated to dumb Israeli disinformation campaigns and leaks. They normally appear in the Jerusalem Post, but can appear in dispatches by Isabel Kershner and Ethan Bronner of the New York Times. I never t…
Posted on February 3, 2010 by As'ad
The state whose years are numbered
“The Palestinian red crescent society (PRCS) announced on Tuesday that its medical teams were the targets of 455 Israeli attacks in 2009 including shooting and physical assaults.”
Posted on February 3, 2010 by As'ad
When Isabel Kershner explains the Middle East
“..Ghajar (pronounced RAH-jar)…” Oh, really. Pronounced Rah-jar? Or is your name pronounced Pro-paga-anda for Israel? Ghajar is of course an Arabic words which refers to the Roma people, where they settled in that area. Ghajar is pronounced Gha-ja…
Posted on February 3, 2010 by As'ad
Oh, really Sandrine. What do you put when you cook and clean?
As a cook, she tried to invent new dishes for the Talhouks, who are vegetarians. “When she cooked and cleaned, she put her whole heart into it,” said Sandrine Talhouk, the family matron.”
Posted on February 3, 2010 by As'ad
I am glad that Avi Shlaim took time from his busy schedule of writing tributes to King Khuuussayn
“Blair’s failure to stand up for Palestinian independence is precisely what endears him to the Israeli establishment. In February of last year, while the Palestinians in Gaza were still mourning their dead, Blair received the Dan David prize from Tel A…
Posted on February 3, 2010 by As'ad
Michael Totten wants to send pizza to killers
Kathy, my 1st ex-wife (not to be confused with Maria, my 2nd ex-wife) sent me this item and she was outraged (she wrote: “Noooooo, that Michael Totten doesn’t hate Arabs at all. That asshole lives in Beirut?”. Totten wrote: “There’s something truly …
Posted on February 3, 2010 by As'ad
Angry Arab Interviews
Tarif Khalidi suggested that I interview people and post them on the blog. Of course, that would require time that I don’t possess but it is a good idea. I can do it as infrequently as time may permit. So I am starting with an interview with Tarif o…
Posted on February 3, 2010 by As'ad
The great leftist challenge
Can there be new agencies? It can no longer be in terms of a single class, but then in my view it never could be. There is a progressive politics of coalitions, even such relatively permanent coalitions as that between, say, the educated, Guardian-read…
Posted on February 3, 2010 by As'ad
Kinds of success
“The goal, Amland said, is to spread to Marja the “kinds of success” seen in other communities once the Taliban were ousted. In the Nawa district of the province, for example, the marketplace reopened, irrigation canal clearing projects started, and a …
Posted on February 3, 2010 by As'ad