Archive for February 10, 2010
Shame on Aljazeera’s Ahmad Mansur
Ahmad Mansur is interviewing Amin Gemayyel: and Mansur is a tough interviewer unless he is interviewing Amin Gemayyel or Gihad Sadat or a Hariri family member. He then turns into Larry King when he interviewed Frank Sinatra (why do we love you so much…
Posted on February 10, 2010 by As'ad
BBC news? Service?
Marlin sent me this (I cite with his permission): “The intrepid BBC at your service: Paragraph 2 – Hariri “told the BBC” about Israeli planes, because multiple UN reports about the violations aren’t credible enough to be accepted as fact and the tho…
Posted on February 10, 2010 by As'ad
Now we know where Jeffrey Feltman gets his information on the Middle East
It is now official. I always wondered where this worst Assistant Secretary of State for the Near East (a man that he can say the word “shukran”–that is the extent of his knowledge of Arabic) receives his information and “insights” about the Middle Ea…
Posted on February 10, 2010 by As'ad
Winning hearts?
When Nelson Mandela was released from jail, he said that he wants to win the hearts of the enemy. I don’t. I just want to win the land back. I could care less about the hearts of the enemy.
Posted on February 10, 2010 by As'ad
Israel: where racism is a source of national pride
“But in general – and this is my personal position – our attitude toward the Arabs is that I don’t have any antagonism toward any Muhammad or Mustafa here; I don’t have personal problems with them. It’s a national issue here. We want to be…
Posted on February 10, 2010 by As'ad
February 14th in Lebanon
I don’t have to remind the Lebanese people to celebrate on February 14th. After all: it is…Valentine’s Day.
Posted on February 10, 2010 by As'ad
Smuggling political books to Israeli prisons
I still laugh when I think about it. So when I asked Samir Quntar how he was able to read political works in Israeli jails, he said: do you have an idea of how dumb Israeli jailers are? I should have known. I mean, Jeffrey Goldberg was an Israeli ja…
Posted on February 10, 2010 by As'ad
We have a winner: the contest for the first picture of a cow in the Gaza tunnel
Mark is the official winner of the contest for the first picture of a calf in the Gaza tunnels. He shall receive a ten-speed blender. Now there will be a bigger prize for the first picture of a vehicle smuggled through the tunnels. And you know my t…
Posted on February 10, 2010 by As'ad
The vision of Sheikh Mo
“The world’s tallest skyscraper has unexpectedly closed to the public a month after its lavish opening, disappointing tourists headed for the observation deck and casting doubt over plans to welcome its first permanent occupants in the coming weeks….
Posted on February 10, 2010 by As'ad
I’d rather die of hunger than entertain the possibility of coaching Israel
“”I’d rather die of hunger than entertain the possibility of coaching Israel,” declared Hassan Shehata, the soccer coach who brought home to Egypt the African Cup of Nations for the third year running.” I know that I posted this yesterday, but I li…
Posted on February 10, 2010 by As'ad
This MEMRI will not cover
“The author was taken aback by their positive feedback and nostalgia for the old days in Wadi Abu Jamil. Abdelsamad herself, she says, is part of the generation that only heard about the Lebanon’s Jewish community but never encountered it. “The…
Posted on February 10, 2010 by As'ad
The Botulist Philosopher
“In the United States, where Mr. Lévy published “American Vertigo,†his version of traveling in the footsteps of Alexis de Tocqueville, Garrison Keillor wrote a scorching critique in The New York Times Book Review in 2006 citing “the grandiosity…
Posted on February 10, 2010 by As'ad
Chewing Qat
I have never chewed qat. But I was thinking: if I had a choice of chewing qat with Thomas Friedman, or chewing my shoes by myself, I would go with the shoe, any day.
Posted on February 10, 2010 by As'ad
Civilians of Afghanistan: beware, the US is about to liberate the hell out of you
“As U.S.-led coalition troops prepare for a long-awaited offensive against the Taliban in southern Afghanistan, few civilians have managed to escape the town at the center of the operation, raising the risk of civilian casualties that could undermin…
Posted on February 10, 2010 by As'ad
Chief Mufti of Dubai
When Arab governments are in trouble, they intensify their religious fanaticism. The chief of Muftis in Dubai ordered a ban on the prostration of of players during football games, unless the pudenda are covered, and unless they direct themselves towar…
Posted on February 10, 2010 by As'ad
If this was in Gaza
“Twelve teenagers from the Amakim region are suspected of repeatedly raping a 14-year-old girl over the course of four years, the Afula Magistrate’s Court cleared for publication on Wednesday. According to suspicions, the teenagers, aged 14-17, had …
Posted on February 10, 2010 by As'ad
Thomas Friedman: the three days stopover foreign observer
“Most had been educated in America or had kids studying there…” Yes, Friedman. You meet with a representative sample of Arabs wherever you travel. And Sheikh Mo speaks for Arab youths everywhere.
Posted on February 10, 2010 by As'ad
On Thomas Friedman
Really, I mean this. My major problem with Thomas Friedman is not that he is annoying and not that he is very unfunny but thinks that he is funny (he has the wit of a Anver Hoxa), but that he is clueless and a bad writer. I mean, I really prefer Will…
Posted on February 10, 2010 by As'ad
Look at Israeli-Saudi campaign to incite sectarian hatred in the Middle East
This is form the Saudi sleaze website, Elaph. A campaign against Shi`ites. Elaph is notorious not only for its semi-pornographic pictures but also for its publication of blatant Israeli intelligence leaks and campaigns. (thanks Ali)
Posted on February 10, 2010 by As'ad
Collaborators and sleaze
“The Palestinian Authority expressed their outrage on Wednesday at Israel’s Channel 10 report of a video found depicting one of Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas’ senior advisors in compromising positions with a woman candidate applying to work in …
Posted on February 10, 2010 by As'ad