Archive for January 3, 2011
Sometimes at Wikileaks they forget to cover the names throughout
“We met recently with Keyhan Ozdemir (please strictly protect), a director of Pars-Invest, a Turkish company with construction, real estate, and energy investments in Iran.” (thanks Amer)
Posted on January 3, 2011 by As'ad
New York Times standards of Abraham Foxman’s definition of anti-Semitism
“Some of the evening’s awkwardness could be chalked up to a mild controversy about Godard’s attitudes toward Jews: he is a longtime supporter of the cause of the Palestinians…”
Posted on January 3, 2011 by As'ad
PA is making democratic progress: serving Israel
“Palestinian Authority security forces detained 3,000 Hamas affiliates in the West Bank in 2010, Hamas spokesman Fawzi Barhoum said Sunday.”
Posted on January 3, 2011 by As'ad
Career of Judith Miller
“Since her early days at the Times, when she inserted CIA misinformation into a piece on Libya, she’s always been a tool of power. She was the voice of the Defense Department, embedded at the Times. She was hyping bullshit stories about Iraq’s WMD c…
Posted on January 3, 2011 by As'ad
Middle East expertise in the US press: this reporter confuses Libya and Lebanon (or thinks they are the same)
“It is highly unlikely, according to the report, that al-Megrahi was released, as was claimed, on “compassionate grounds†because of medical reports that showed he had three months to live. The Lebanese terrorist, who is still alive 16 months la…
Posted on January 3, 2011 by As'ad
Saddam wants to heart the US
“SADDAM WISHED TO CONVEY AN IMPORTANT MESSAGE TO PRESIDENT BUSH: IRAQ WANTS FRIENDSHIP, BUT DOES THE USG?” (thanks Redouane)
Posted on January 3, 2011 by As'ad
Queen Youtube talks politics in Wikileaks
“Queen Rania chimed in on the issue as well, saying that success for moderate Arab states was critically important in order to defeat Iran’s agenda. She said that Jordan was trying to become a model, a place where people say, “this is the kind of count…
Posted on January 3, 2011 by As'ad
Because that is what US Congress wants
“Why is 85% of a $17m Marine Corps contract being spent in Israel?” (thanks Olivia)
Posted on January 3, 2011 by As'ad
How Arabs detest Israel: let me count the ways
“A coalition of Jordanian opposition parties and trade unions on Monday rebuked the government for secretly receiving the chief of Israel’s National Security Council, Uzi Arad, in Amman last week, and urged the rupture of ties with Israel. The…
Posted on January 3, 2011 by As'ad
Saudi king’s priorities
“But before he would commit to a mostly Boeing fleet, the king had a request. “I am instructing you,†he told Mr. Hernandez politely, according to the State Department cable, “to speak to the president and all concerned authorities,†as t…
Posted on January 3, 2011 by As'ad
Lebanese crooks in France: tell An-Nahar to brag about their success stories
“Ibn Rushd” sent me this: ”Lebanese buisnessmen in France declared a faked bankruptcy, emptied their factory, sold and transferred the machines to Morocco, didn’t pay their employees’ wages and then skipped the country and are enjoying the…
Posted on January 3, 2011 by As'ad
Mubarak’s regime
Another scenario for what what happened in Alexandria is that the military-intelligence apparatus engineered the explosion in order to sabotage the coronation of Jamal Mubarak and to promote a candidate for the military-intelligence apparatus as the re…
Posted on January 3, 2011 by As'ad
war plans
Comrade Khalid writes about the new draft law by right-wing March 14 (all March 14 politicians are right-wing just like March 8 politicians) Butrus Harb which would prohibit a Muslim Lebanese from selling land to a Christian Lebanese and vice versa.
Posted on January 3, 2011 by As'ad
Income Inequality in the US
“Hacker and Pierson refreshingly break free from the conceit that skyrocketing inequality is a natural consequence of market forces and argue instead that it is the result of public policies that have concentrated and amplified the effects of the econo…
Posted on January 3, 2011 by As'ad
Saudi Arabia and Wikileaks
Of course, Zionist media are now totally obsessed with protecting the interests of House of Saudi given their services to Israel. So the New York Times–not known for caring to represent an Arab point of view–went the extra length to publish an …
Posted on January 3, 2011 by As'ad
You want peace in the Middle East?
If you want peace in the Middle East you need to be opposed in principle to the very existence of Israel. I don’t want you to be like those weak Arab Americans who get so nervous when asked: do you recognize Israel. Tell them: no, I am prou…
Posted on January 3, 2011 by As'ad
Chief PA buffoon
Sa`ib `Uraykat, the chief PA buffoon whose statements are often fodder of laughter–at him–argues for boycott of settlements only but not of Israel itself. (thanks Farah)
Posted on January 3, 2011 by As'ad
Another suicide in Lebanon
An Ethiopian domestic worker kills herself in Lebanon. Lebanese police–as usual–does not investigate the circumstances.
Posted on January 3, 2011 by As'ad
Thus Preached House of Saud’s Propagandists
This must be part of the theater of the absurd. This Saudi government propagandist (editor-in-chief of Prince Salman’s mouthpiece, Ash-Sharq Al-Awsat–many Arab readers of this blog were furious when I changed the background color of this blog be…
Posted on January 3, 2011 by As'ad
Angry Revelation
For those who don’t care, the second volume of my book Al-Bawh Al-Ghadib (Angry Revelation), which is a collection of a selection of my weekly articles in Al-Akhbar, will be out in May from Dar Al-Adab.
Posted on January 3, 2011 by As'ad