Archive for October 10, 2010
celebration of bigots in the New York Times
This is a very long and largely celebratory piece about a self-described anti-Islam bigot. But what attracted my attention is the suggestion in the piece that the website Little Green Footballs (a known hateful site) is a rather moderate site that abho…
Posted on October 10, 2010 by As'ad
Human Rights Watch-Lebanon
Of all the killings that is going on in the Middle East, and with daily news of Israeli killing of Palestinians, Human Rights Watch-Lebanon issued a most outrageous statement about the death penalty in Lebanon. If the statement spoke against the …
Posted on October 10, 2010 by As'ad
Orwellian Zionist headline
“IDF Gaza Division boosts its commitment to nature” (thanks Max)
Posted on October 10, 2010 by As'ad
Saudi reforms
“NAJRAN: A marriage official (mazoun) in the southern city of Najran has told a local Arabic daily that he had married a minor girl who is barely 12 years old and consummated their marriage after only two and a half months. The mazoun, who has…
Posted on October 10, 2010 by As'ad
the 1948 War
Yusuf Sayigh, who fought in the 1948 war, said this in his book (mentioned below): ”The more inclined a city or town was toward modernity and the West, the less was its contribution to resistance.” (P. 251)
Posted on October 10, 2010 by As'ad
Obama wars and American human rights groups
“Since the beginning of September alone, President Obama has authorised at least 25 targeted killings. The total since he came to office is more than 100. These have certainly killed some of the senior operatives of al-Qaeda and the Taliban. They ha…
Posted on October 10, 2010 by As'ad
Practice of ethnic expulsion (known as transfer)
“IBA Radio is reporting that Israel’s security forces ended Thursday a large national drill, in which the civil defense forces, police, military police, fire department and Israel’s prisons unit trained for large scale riots in the Israeli-Arab …
Posted on October 10, 2010 by As'ad
Saudi Arabia: state and society
This is a massive book: Saudi Arabia: Account of State and Society” (in Arabic) by `Abd-`Aziz Al-Khudur. It is more like an encyclopedia, than anything else. The author studies the debates in Saudi Arabia about culture, religion, media, opp…
Posted on October 10, 2010 by As'ad
Yusuf Sayigh
Rosemary Sayigh did series of interviews with her late husband, Yusuf Sayigh, and published them as memoirs. This is a very interesting story and Yusuf fought in the 1948 war and witnessed all the key posts of the Arab-Israeli conflict. His…
Posted on October 10, 2010 by As'ad
American Task Force for Dahlan
“A board member of the Washington, DC-based American Task Force on Palestine (ATFP) is a major investor in an aerospace company that does millions of dollars of business with an Israeli military defense contractor that has close ties to the Israel D…
Posted on October 10, 2010 by As'ad
Lebanese Jews
It is nice that the Western press can sympathize with Lebanese Jews who (as even Abdus-Samad admits) left Lebanon entirely voluntarily, while they can’t sympathize with the Palestinians who were kicked out of their own country by force.
Posted on October 10, 2010 by As'ad
Foreign Policy
Foreign Policy magazine specializes in analysis of world affairs. (thanks Karim)
Posted on October 10, 2010 by As'ad