Archive for March 21, 2010
Iraqi elections
I mean, I have never ever heard of a longer voting count than that of the Iraqi election. If takes a day longer, I am going to start thinking that maybe there is political and financial corruption in Iraq. But there are US troops there and the US is …
Posted on March 21, 2010 by As'ad
Butrus Harb
This Lebanese politician really bothers me. He feigns seriousness and statepersonship for some reason. He thinks he is something that he is not.
Posted on March 21, 2010 by As'ad
From Megan Stack’s forthcoming book
Look at this passage by Megan Stack from her forthcoming book: why can’t mainstream journalists write like that? “”The bombings were huge and awful [yes, Megan, but Israeli bombings were more huge and more awful], but the sufferings of the Palestinian…
Posted on March 21, 2010 by As'ad
Israeli killings
“”The IDF confirmed that soldiers used rubber bullets and tear gas canisters to disperse rock-throwers near the village of Burin, 7 km. southwest of Nablus, and that a preliminary investigation had ruled out the possibility that soldiers used regula…
Posted on March 21, 2010 by As'ad
Megan Stack
I like Megan Stack, LA Times’ foreign correspondent. I never met her but she was stationed in Beirut during the Potato Revolution and she was by far the most reasonable (and accurate) among the foreign correspondents in the city. Her dispatches from …
Posted on March 21, 2010 by As'ad
Hamas: in the footsteps of Fath
I am sure that Hamas will soon produce its own version of Muhammad Dahlan: Mahmoud al-Zahar: Qassams helping Israel.”
Posted on March 21, 2010 by As'ad
Anthony Shadid: in the footsteps of Thomas Friedman?
“A friend once called it the culture of the “kundara,†the word here for shoe. “When anyone is against you, when anyone has differences with me, I will put a kundara in his mouth, I will shove a kundara down his throat, I will hit him with a k…
Posted on March 21, 2010 by As'ad
This will not be a headline in the New York Times
“Israeli troops shot dead two Palestinians in the occupied West Bank today amid a new descent into violence. The two, who Palestinians claimed were detained while ploughing a field of olive trees near Nablus, were shot several times. Palestinian offic…
Posted on March 21, 2010 by As'ad
Hizbullah and UAE
When I was in Lebanon last January, I learned so many things that I forgot to report on so many things. I will be there in late May, so I will learn more. Here is another one that I forgot about. I was talking to a friend the other day, and he remin…
Posted on March 21, 2010 by As'ad
Shooting homosexuals in Lebanese army barracks?
A most reliable source tells me that the two were (according to rumors but nothing is verifiable at this point) shot dead when caught in a homosexual act. I mean, why would they commit suicide at the same time in their separate rooms? “LBCI reported …
Posted on March 21, 2010 by As'ad
Another Lebanese genius-crook
Lebanese are proud of the contributions of Lebanese around the world, especially in the areas of rape, theft, corruption, murder, prostitution, and embezzlement. Meet this crook now. The whole nation “shook up in pride” as the lyrics of one song has …
Posted on March 21, 2010 by As'ad
Look at this Palestinian boy
He will grow up. He will fight back. He was arrested for fighting against Israeli occupation with pebbles. (AFP)
Posted on March 21, 2010 by As'ad
Lebanon’s runaway maids
““When a maid runs away from her employer’s house, the police station is unable to act because there’s no law criminalizing runaway maids. So the police station officer tells the Lebanese employee to say that she stole money,†writes Ethiopian …
Posted on March 21, 2010 by As'ad
Kissinger and population control
“On Dec. 10, 1974, the U.S. National Security Council under Henry Kissinger completed a classified 200-page study, “National Security Study Memorandum 200: Implications of Worldwide Population Growth for U.S. Security and Overseas Interests.†Th…
Posted on March 21, 2010 by As'ad
Biden in Israel
“US Vice President Joe Biden was the first visiting foreign dignitary to lay a wreath at the tomb of Theodor Herzl on Mt. Herzl in Jerusalem within the framework of activities to mark the 150th anniversary of the birth of Herzl. Biden and his wife,…
Posted on March 21, 2010 by As'ad
Facebook does not like Dalal Al-Mughrabi
Apparently, Facebook is very hostile to Fath commander, Dalal Al-Mughrabi (whose dead body was mutilated by Ehud Barak after her murder). (thanks Laure)
Posted on March 21, 2010 by As'ad
Adonis
Long interviews with Adonis in Al-Hayat. Notice that he is allowed to speak about (and against) Arab nationalism, leftism, and SSNP but not about Wahhabi salafism. Also notice that he accuses the great poet, Khalil Hawi (one of my favorites) of being…
Posted on March 21, 2010 by As'ad
Ethan Bronner’s sources in one article
Sarah collected the sources in one article by Ethan Bronner:1. “said a former official who remains a consultant to the Israeli government and would speak only on condition of anonymity to guard his official relationship.”2. “Another government adviser…
Posted on March 21, 2010 by As'ad
Look how the New York Times make it a purely legal matter
““I cannot sign this,†Commander Zazai said, thumping his crutch again. “I don’t know what that intelligence said; we did not see that intelligence. It is right that we are illiterate, but we are not blind.“Who proved that these men were guil…
Posted on March 21, 2010 by As'ad
Norman Finkelstein’s Best Revenge
Norman Finkelstein’s enemies will suffer series of heart attacks when they read his latest book, which is not published yet. “This Time We Went Too Far: Truth and Consequences of the Gaza Invasion” (which will be out soon, but I read a pre-publication…
Posted on March 21, 2010 by As'ad