Archive for January 16, 2011
Israel’s dirty hands
“DeLay’s lawyers have also submitted more than 30 character and support letters from friends and political leaders, including Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu and eight current U.S. congressmen. Most of the letters ask for le…
Posted on January 16, 2011 by As'ad
oops
“Secretary of State Hillary Rodham Clinton scolded some of those allies last week for that lack of reform, though forgoing mention that some of the most dictatorial are some of America’s closest allies.”
Posted on January 16, 2011 by As'ad
Robert Worth: Israel and US troops invaded Lebanon to keep “peace”
Here is what he said: “The group is bent on expelling Israel and the Western troops who try to keep peace amid rising violence after Israel’s 1982 invasion.” Now, he could be referring only to Western troops and not to Israeli occupation troops…
Posted on January 16, 2011 by As'ad
Foreign saboteurs in Tunisia?
Watch the footage (thanks Mariam)Or are they wild boar hunters? (thanks Emily)
Posted on January 16, 2011 by As'ad
Georgie Anne Geyer on Tunisia
Khelil sent me this (I cite with his permission): ”As’ad, about that Georgie Anne Geyer writing how see did not see Ben Ali as a tyrant. I am familiar with her from years back when she wrote a superficial book titled “Tunisia, A Journey Throug…
Posted on January 16, 2011 by As'ad
An-Nahar: English versus Arabic
Samar sent me this: “I know how much you heart Annahar, but please check the way they cover the news especially HA leader speech. In the english site :9:27pm Nasrallah: We will not allow anybody to mess with the Resistance. ()Arabic site: …
Posted on January 16, 2011 by As'ad
New TV’s Audio-Leaks (Part II)
Today, while people were riveted, the New TV–after long minutes of teasing–aired the second part of its audio-leak: an audio recording of a session by the Hariri tribunal with Mini-Hariri. Explosive–again. It can’t be underestimated in i…
Posted on January 16, 2011 by As'ad
US orders in Tunisia
This has not appeared in the US press. The leading Egyptian daily, Al-Masri Al-Yawm (it is time that journalists STOP referring to Al-Ahram as the “leading Egyptian daily” or to An-Nahar as “the leading Lebanese daily”–you need to update your in…
Posted on January 16, 2011 by As'ad
Matthew Cassel on the difference between Iran and Tunisia
I cite with his permission: “There is a big difference between Iran 09 and Tunisia 11 that is being left out of the discussion. Iran’s “green” demonstrations were massive, but they were countered by equally massive demonstrations organized by governm…
Posted on January 16, 2011 by As'ad
Bin `Ali’s militia
“”The internal security police force has one and half million men under its command, four times the size of the regular army, with a budget of one and a half billion……U.S. assistance—both economic and military—has averaged about $2 billion a…
Posted on January 16, 2011 by As'ad
Arab regimes are weaker than the Iranian regime
Arab regimes would be easier to overthrow than the Iranian regime because–unlike the Iranian regime–Arab regimes don’t have mass basis of support and people who are ready to fight and die for the protection of the regime. To be sure, Arab regim…
Posted on January 16, 2011 by As'ad
Queen Youtube is watching developments in Tunisia–I BET
“Queen Rania of Jordan became the butt of many ominious jokes over the weekend when she tweeted that she was “watching developments in Tunisia and praying for stability and calm for its people.” She was met with a barrage of Twitter taunts…
Posted on January 16, 2011 by As'ad
Palestinian congressman doesn’t advertise the fact
He is ashamed of who he is.
Posted on January 16, 2011 by As'ad
US and Tunisia: sponsorship of a dictator
“The Norwegian newspaper Aftenposten released a series of US diplomatic cables from 2006 on massive and pervasive corruption and nepotism in Tunisia and its effect on economic development and social problems. The cables show that the United States g…
Posted on January 16, 2011 by As'ad
Israeli propaganda invents Arab sources–regularly
Look at this “report” in an Israeli propaganda sheet about Tunisia: ”Suhil Patuach, a human rights activist who took part in the ousting of President Zine El Abidine, spoke to Ynet from the heart of the Tunisian capital – just 500 meters from…
Posted on January 16, 2011 by As'ad
Who is David Kirkpatrick and where does he derive his “information” on Tunisia?
I don’t know who he is. But I will tell you this: in the entire article today about Tunisia and even about Arab reactions, he cited one–ONLY ONE–Arab source on Tunisia. Here it goes: ”Still, many commentators around the Arab world w…
Posted on January 16, 2011 by As'ad
The New York Times tries to protect the image of US diplomacy
Here, this article is a piece trash journalism. It claims that the US has been ambivalent about Tunisian dictatorship all along but the record is clear: even if there were private musings about corruption in the the Tunisian government, there was…
Posted on January 16, 2011 by As'ad
This is incredible: The New York Times is really in love with Israeli cyper-terrorism
This is not the first time that the New York Times expresses great admiration for Israeli cyber-terrorism.
Posted on January 16, 2011 by As'ad
Thus spoke Jeffrey Feltman
Jeffrey Feltman, Assistant Secretary of State for the Near East and AIPAC, finally spoke on Tunisian matters today. He said: the US calls on Bin `Ali to leave the country. When told that he has already left, he answered: see.
Posted on January 16, 2011 by As'ad
The Likudnik, Elliott Abrams on Lebanon
Where do you get your information on Lebanon, o US Likudnik who in the 1980s posed as an expert on Latin America (without knowing Spanish) and now poses as expert on the Middle East (without knowing Arabic, Persian, or Turkish)? Well, ”Mich…
Posted on January 16, 2011 by As'ad