Archive for December 29, 2010
Iranian ice cream in Iraq: the outrage continues
“Regarding the Dec. 20 front-page article “In Green Zone, an icy challenge to U.S. power”: Persian ice cream in Baghdad? What will those fiendish Iranians do next? Hot dogs? Hamburgers? Oh, no, not tacos! To arms, Americans! Draft Ben and Jerry! Depl…
Posted on December 29, 2010 by As'ad
US, Israel and Gulf dictatorships declare this the biggest security threat in the Middle East: Iranian ice-cream in Iraq
“In the heart of Baghdad’s Green Zone, just yards from the mighty fortress of the biggest U.S. embassy in the world, a small but symbolic challenge to America’s rapidly waning influence in Iraq is taking shape in the form of an Iranian ice cream par…
Posted on December 29, 2010 by As'ad
Arresting children in their land of Palestine
“Palestinian Ahmad Daana, 12, looks out from a police vehicle, as his mother and brothers (reflected in the window) watch, after Israeli police detained him on suspicion of throwing stones during clashes in the East Jerusalem neighborhood of Silwan,…
Posted on December 29, 2010 by As'ad
When they write about Arab culture in the Western press
I mean, you really have to know no Arabic, and you really have not know nothing about Arab culture in translation, and you really have to have not read anything by Adonis in prose or poetry to write this ignorant sentence: ”Adonis’s indifferenc…
Posted on December 29, 2010 by As'ad
The Gaza prison
“After four pages filled with detailed charts of the number of grams and calories of every type of food to be permitted for consumption by Gaza residents (broken down by gender and age), comes this recommendation: “It is necessary to deal with the…
Posted on December 29, 2010 by As'ad
Tunisian police state: object of admiration by Western governments
“Sadly, the suicide rate among young people has increased as well. Some youths have even set themselves on fire in public to draw officials’ attention to their depressed state. As the latest incident demonstrates, these acts are neither isolated nor…
Posted on December 29, 2010 by As'ad
Israeli injustice system
“A classified report by the Israel Bar Association obtained by Haaretz provides a glimpse into the harrowing conditions prisoners separated from the main jail population must endure. According to the document, which is the first external revi…
Posted on December 29, 2010 by As'ad
When a Saudi king makes a recovery progress, it means he is already dead
“US President Barack Obama has called King Abdullah to hail his recovery “progress,†the White House said, in the strongest indication of the Saudi monarch’s improving condition since he left a US hospital after back surgery.”
Posted on December 29, 2010 by As'ad
Sons of Zayid and their chief of police
“Dubai Police Chief Lt General Dhahi Khalfan Tamim recommended a quota system for all nationalities in the UAE to keep the expat population in the country in check, it has been reported this morning.” (thanks Khalid)
Posted on December 29, 2010 by As'ad
Sons of Zayid
“The United Arab Emirates chose to release details of a Hamas leader’s assassination in Dubai nearly a year ago, after deciding silence would be seen as siding with Israel, U.S. cables released by WikiLeaks showed.”
Posted on December 29, 2010 by As'ad
Israel’s kangaroo courts
“In a single day in Israel’s kangaroo courts, a right-wing terrorist was sentenced to a few months of street cleaning while a non-violent activist dedicated to stopping the occupation was jailed under the most specious charges. And while Pollak’…
Posted on December 29, 2010 by As'ad
Comment on Tunisia
One of the most amusing reactions about Tunisia came from a senior Saudi propagandist, `Abdur-Rahman Ar-Rashid (formerly editor-in-chief of Prince Salman’s mouthpiece, Ash-Sharq Al-Awsat, and later director of the private TV station of King Fahd’s brot…
Posted on December 29, 2010 by As'ad
About that Tunisian model–so often hailed as a success story in the West
“Reporting of these events has been sparse, to say the least. The Tunisian press, of course, is strictly controlled and international news organisations have shown little interest: the “not many dead” syndrome, perhaps. But in the context of Tunisia…
Posted on December 29, 2010 by As'ad
Kissinger: on having the Syrian regime “clean up” the Lebanese Left in 1976
“Kissinger: We first thought it would be good to have the Syrians clean up on the left;” (thanks David)
Posted on December 29, 2010 by As'ad
Zionism is racism, always
“Dozens of Jaffa residents held a demonstration outside a school Tuesday protesting the fact that the school’s principal prohibited Arab students from speaking Arabic inside classrooms. Students who attended the rally accused him of racism. Th…
Posted on December 29, 2010 by As'ad
They call on….blah blah blah
“A senior United Nations official today condemned the demolition of two refugee homes in East Jerusalem, stressing in particular the trauma caused to Palestinian children forced to witness their homes being destroyed.”These condemnable acts have a de…
Posted on December 29, 2010 by As'ad
Assisting the assassins
“A cable sent from the embassy in Dubai less than a month after the assassination reveals that senior U.A.E. officials asked the American ambassador and U.S. Secretary of State Hillary Clinton to probe urgently “cardholder details and related inf…
Posted on December 29, 2010 by As'ad
Dahlan fled to Serbia? He does have “business” there (arranged for him by sons of Zayid)
“Mais où est donc passé Mohammed Dahlan ? Indésirable à Ramallah en Cisjordanie, l’ex-homme fort de la bande de Gaza serait réfugié en Serbie, nous affirme un diplomate européen, qui rentre des territoires palestiniens.”
Posted on December 29, 2010 by As'ad
In Lebanon, the body guard of the Za`im gets a street named after him
In Lebanon, even the bodyguard of Rafiq Hariri gets a street named after him.
Posted on December 29, 2010 by As'ad
Western silence about the police state of Tunisia: Arab pinochet
“The Arabic Network for Human rights Information today denounced the security siege and the ruthless assaults on protesters and demonstrators in the recent protests in many Tunisian cities against unemployment and deteriorating economic condition…
Posted on December 29, 2010 by As'ad