Archive for March 10, 2010
They are there to take orders from Israel, after all
“The Palestinian Authority on Wednesday ordered the cancellation of a ceremony to honor the woman who led a 1978 hijacking of a civilian bus in Israel that left 35 people dead.”
Posted on March 10, 2010 by As'ad
Supreme repression: Iran
“The number of journalists in jail rose in February as a relentless media crackdown continues in Iran. Authorities are now holding at least 52 journalists in prison, a third of all those in jail around the world, according to the latest monthly survey …
Posted on March 10, 2010 by As'ad
This guy thinks he is funny–kid you not
But having failed to make anybody in the world laugh, now he found the Jerusalem Post his home. At least they don’t allow him to joke there; he is only allowed to bash supporters of the Palestinians. And wait: he just stumbled on an earth shattering …
Posted on March 10, 2010 by As'ad
Nir Rosen: I am not a neo-con, and other denials
Nir Rosen did not like what I wrote yesterday about his lousy conclusion in his article on Iraq, so he sent me this (I cite with his permission): “first of all there is no contradiction between what i wrote and what the economist wrote, at least in th…
Posted on March 10, 2010 by As'ad
Mind your language
In US media the Israeli nuclear program is now referred to as “the energy program.”
Posted on March 10, 2010 by As'ad
Impolite
The head of the Information Committee of the ruling party in Egypt said that whoever asks him about the next president of Egypt is impolite. A woman in the audience said: I am impolite. (thanks Moustafa)
Posted on March 10, 2010 by As'ad
All that you have done to our people is registered in notebooks
“Five Palestinians women preferred to go home rather than heading to an Israeli prison to visit their detailed family members after Israeli soldiers stationed at a Roadblock near the central West Bank city of Ramallah demanded to strip-search them.”…
Posted on March 10, 2010 by As'ad
Ethan Bronner: propagandizing
Matt sent me this (I cite with his permission): “The middle east studies center on my campus receives all sorts of publications which the staff leaves out in the lounge area. One of these is the bulletin of the “Begin-Sadat Center for Strategic Stud…
Posted on March 10, 2010 by As'ad
Sistani elections
In the sectarian elections-under-occupation in Iraq, Israelis are allowed to vote, for Israel’s man in Iraq, Mithal Allusi. (thanks Khaled)
Posted on March 10, 2010 by As'ad
Yellow journalism for a yellow entity
“”Israeli newspapers are getting yellower,” said Yoram Peri, a longtime Israeli media analyst who serves as director of the Gildenhorn Institute for Israel Studies at the University of Maryland. “This is a dangerous phenomenon. For a strong democrac…
Posted on March 10, 2010 by As'ad
Ya`ni is the wrong word here, but the point is well taken
“”In everything connected to the settlers and settlements, the government has a “ya’ani” policy. Enforcement of the law in the territories is “ya’ani,” except when it comes to transforming the West Bank into a Garden of Eden for settler law-breakers…
Posted on March 10, 2010 by As'ad
Murdoch comes to Arabia
“”I have every confidence that Arab companies can do the same and more. I also believe that Abu Dhabi can lead the way.”"
Posted on March 10, 2010 by As'ad
The father of all Muslim kooks in the Middle East dies
And what better place to die in, if you are a religious kook/book burner, than Saudi Arabia: “Mohammad Sayed Tantawi, the Grand Imam of Cairo’s Al Azhar Mosque and the Grand Shaikh of Al Azhar University, died Wednesday of a heart attack, while on a…
Posted on March 10, 2010 by As'ad
David Kimche
Look at this obituary of a former leader of Mossad by Kershner in the Times. 1) She did not say that he obtained his wigs from the same place that the dumb 27 Mossad killers in Dubai obtain their wigs. 2) Notice this: “Employing a combination of cunnin…
Posted on March 10, 2010 by As'ad
Ethan Bronner: on why negotiations did not proceed between Israel and Arab regimes
“Arab states would promise confidence-building measures in exchange. No such measures were forthcoming…” OK, Bronner. Thanks.
Posted on March 10, 2010 by As'ad
The innocent country
This, of course, is not a front page story: “Israel has never admitted that it has nuclear weapons, and it has refused to sign the Non-Proliferation Treaty. Israel is a member of the International Atomic Energy Agency, and Mr. Landau said that any nuc…
Posted on March 10, 2010 by As'ad
This is emotional: love fest between AIPAC and Dahlan Taskforce for Israel
Who is more qualified than the Dahlan Task Force for Israel to Speak for the Palestinians at an AIPAC Conference:”FeaturingMr. Gaith al-OmariAdvocacy Director, American Task Force on PalestineMr. David HorovitzEditor-in-Chief, “The Jerusalem Post”Mr. D…
Posted on March 10, 2010 by As'ad