Archive for March 17, 2010
Barenboim: take your piano away from here
Samer Abboud sent me this (I cite with his permission): “I hope that you are well. I just noticed your post on Miriam Said’s comments, I hope you do not mind me writing you about this. A few years ago I attended a conference in memory of Edward Said…
Posted on March 17, 2010 by As'ad
Mubarak and Bernie
I know that this picture was supposed to show that Husni Mubarak is alive and well, but it seems to me that it only proved that he reminds us of Bernie from that movie.
Posted on March 17, 2010 by As'ad
Mariam Said: I beg to differ
“Edward’s thinking about the conflict evolved over the years. In the end, no matter what the solution is, both peoples will have to live together. To do so we need to talk to the enemy and to break the wall that separates us. To him the WEDO was an exp…
Posted on March 17, 2010 by As'ad
Israeli war on Palestinian children
“”The Israeli forces are threatening the families through the children,” Shafaa continues. “In the cases when the police come in and arrest the children, they will only release them on an expensive bail, and every day, the community continues to fea…
Posted on March 17, 2010 by As'ad
Lexus and Lexus coupe
““I owe my Lexus to Khomeini and my Lexus Coupe to Bin Laden,” John Esposito of Georgetown University joked.” (thanks Dina)
Posted on March 17, 2010 by As'ad
Juan Cole on Goldberg (Goldberg as is widely known, is the worst writer on the Middle East in the whole world)
“More recently I have provoked the ire of a burly former Israeli military prison guard at the notorious Ketziot detention camp during the first Intifada, who is among our foremost journalists of the Middle East and given a prominent perch at The Atl…
Posted on March 17, 2010 by As'ad
Camel method
“The Times story is about an outreach technique that some Baptist missionaries use with Muslims. It involves stressing commonalities between the Koran and the Bible and affirming that the Allah of the Koran and the God of the Bible are one and the s…
Posted on March 17, 2010 by As'ad
Australian Zionism
“There was almost no precedent for navigating these choppy waters. Australia’s cast-iron backing for Israel in the United Nations began to falter, with the country abstaining from a resolution about the Goldstone Report that demanded Israel and the …
Posted on March 17, 2010 by As'ad
Syrian workers in Lebanon
“A Syrian worker committed suicide in a restaurant in Barouk in the Chouf region on Tuesday, according to security sources.”
Posted on March 17, 2010 by As'ad
4 million cluster bombs
“A man working on a mine clearing team was injured on Tuesday when a cluster bomb exploded in Deir Qanoun near Tyre in South Lebanon. Hussein Yassin Mrad, 37, was injured while working with the Norwegian People’s Aid mine clearing team. He was tra…
Posted on March 17, 2010 by As'ad
Lebanese police beats the Mossad, again
“The Internal Security Forces (ISF) Information Department arrested Maher Abu Jreish on suspicion of membership to an Israeli espionage network, the state-run National News Agency (NNA) reported on Tuesday.”
Posted on March 17, 2010 by As'ad
Does anyone else find it odd that Israel is the most visited foreign country by US politicians?
“I’m not talking about Biden going there as VP, which is clearly part of US foreign policy. I’m talking about trips that are not part of policy, more like meet-and-greet/networking affairs. And it’s not just congressmen. It’s also various lo…
Posted on March 17, 2010 by As'ad
They may bomb your cities and villages, but they really enjoy your food
“It turned out to be an appetizing idea. Marines returning from Iraq and the Persian Gulf were pining for pita, according to focus-group surveys conducted on the base. Last month, Ms. Hazime and her husband, a Marine veteran, opened “Dede Med’s Sha…
Posted on March 17, 2010 by As'ad
worst than South Africa
“”In Boston, on March 5, 1770, a crowd of Americans threw rocks at British soldiers and were answered by disorderly gunfire. Five Americans were killed, and we call it the Boston Massacre. What was Gaza? Look again at the numbers. [...] Many witnes…
Posted on March 17, 2010 by As'ad
Tarif Khalidi translates Sayyab
Comrade Tarif Khalidi is right that I have not been posting poetry. The 2400 words every week for AlAkhbar, I explained to him, is taking a lot of my time. Tarif kindly shared with me his translation of Badr Shakir As-Sayyab’s poem: Christ After the Cr…
Posted on March 17, 2010 by As'ad
Against normalization with Israel
Muhammad `Ali Al-Khalidi writes against normalization with Israel. (thanks Laleh)
Posted on March 17, 2010 by As'ad
An Israeli academic with a plan
Or how to trick the Palestinians to abandon the right of return: “(b) “Atomization” of the implementation by making the offer of compensation and relocation directly to the heads of families and not through any Palestinian organizational entity that…
Posted on March 17, 2010 by As'ad
Simpsons in Israel
“The episode, titled “The Greatest Story Ever D’ohed,” includes scenes of Homer and Bart at the Western Wall with their Israeli tour guide, who will be voiced by British comedian Sascha Baron Cohen, of Borat and Bruno fame.” (thanks Farah)
Posted on March 17, 2010 by As'ad
Herzl
“US Vice President Joe Biden did lay a wreath at Herzl’s grave, initiating the new policy that was in effect until 1994, but then lapsed when many visiting leaders preferred to pay their respects at the nearby grave of slain prime minister Yitzhak…
Posted on March 17, 2010 by As'ad
Ethan Bronner gives a label
This is how Ethan Bronner labels the Israeli illegal settlement plan: “An ill-timed municipal housing announcement…” So it is just ill-timed. Also, notice that the Western press and the Saudi Arab press now talk about pressures on Netanyahu from his…
Posted on March 17, 2010 by As'ad