Archive for January 25, 2011
The Tunisian people welcome Jeffrey Feltman
(Reuters)
Posted on January 25, 2011 by As'ad
Sarkis Na`um
To Western correspondents in Lebanon, it was fashionable to quote Sarkis Na`um back in the 1980s, when he was read, and when An-Nahar (the right-wing, sectarian Christian, anti-Syrian (people), anti-Palestinian (people)) was the leading daily in Beirut…
Posted on January 25, 2011 by As'ad
US efforts in Tunisia
This is hilarious. I read in Prince Salman’s mouthpiece, Ash-Sharq Al-Awsat, that Jeffrey Feltman offered US help to the Tunisian government to conduct a free and honest election. Yes, the US government has been helping the Saudi government…
Posted on January 25, 2011 by As'ad
Israeli occupier orders a Palestinian PA collaborator to kill a Palestinian struggler
“Mofaz: (?) which we talked about, Hassan Madhoun, we know his address and Rasheed abu Shabak knows that. Why don’t you kill him? Hamas fired because of the elections and this is a challenge to you and a warning to Abu Mazen. Yusuf: We gave instru…
Posted on January 25, 2011 by As'ad
Demonstrations in Egypt
They continue into the night. Unprecedented. Let me guess: Elliott Abrams will attribute the turmoil to Obama’s decision to send an ambassador to Syria.
Posted on January 25, 2011 by As'ad
Arab secular forces on the rise?
What was striking about the demonstrations in Egypt today is that they were secular led and fed. The lousy Muslim Brothers typically decided to stay home. Of course, the Hariri violent protests in Lebanon: those were not secular. Thos…
Posted on January 25, 2011 by As'ad
Thus spoke a Zionist fanatic: Elliott Abrams
We just needed a Zionist fanatic who never studied the Middle East, and whose Zionist Likud activism has inserted illusions in his head that he is now a Middle East expert. He says: “where Hizballah has in essence thrown Prime Minister Saad Harir…
Posted on January 25, 2011 by As'ad
Finally
Aljazeera finally covered the protests in Egypt. But the new team in the Cairo bureau of Aljazeera is rather sympathetic to the regime, I argue.
Posted on January 25, 2011 by As'ad
Dictionary definition of Chutzpah: from the State Department’s spokesperson
“We continue to want to see a government that is serving the interests of the people of Lebanon and not the government of other countries. We want to see a government emerge in Lebanon that will continue to support the work of the tribunal and end the …
Posted on January 25, 2011 by As'ad
Aljazeera and Egypt
Many Egyptians are furious that Aljazeera has not been covering the massive protests in Egypt today. Explanation? Mubarak visited Emir of Qatar last month and basically reached an agreement to reduce Aljazeera’s critical coverage of Egypt and Mub…
Posted on January 25, 2011 by As'ad
On Gen. Shishakli: the post of the day
Comrade Khaled today replies to comrade Kamal:”1. ‘Afeef El-Bizri was a captain at the time. He was dispatched to France for higher degrees (Mathematics), and attended later the French Staff College in Military Engineering to return as Commander of t…
Posted on January 25, 2011 by As'ad
Hariri and Israel
In her speech today, mini-hariri’s aunt bahiyyah said that enmity towards Israel is “our constant principle.” Will that hurt the feelings of Zionists in US media?
Posted on January 25, 2011 by As'ad
Kook
In his speech today, Hasan Nasrallah said: “wherever this kook Feltman visits destruction befalls.”
Posted on January 25, 2011 by As'ad
Hariri Minister of Environment
Apparently, the Hariri Minister of Environment in the outgoing government, Muhammad Rahhal, personally participated in the riots and in setting fires.
Posted on January 25, 2011 by As'ad
New York Times passes Israeli threats to Lebanon, matter of factly
““If Hezbollah is behind the government,” said Mr. Eiland, now a senior research fellow at the Institute for National Security Studies at Tel Aviv University, “it will be much easier to explain to the international community why we must fight …
Posted on January 25, 2011 by As'ad
Elliott Abrams and Feltman
I cant think of worse people (and most ignorant) to deal with US Middle East policy than Elliott Abrams and Jeffrey Feltman. Can you imagine? This is like asking George W. Bush and Sarah Palin to work on a treatment for cancer.
Posted on January 25, 2011 by As'ad
O Mubarak
Egyptians and Sudanese are the best people when it comes to slogans and chants. Today, in Egypt: demonstrators chanted:يا مبارك, يا مبارك. السعوديّة بإتنظاركO Mubarak. O Mubarak. Saudi Arabia is wa…
Posted on January 25, 2011 by As'ad
Condoleezza Rice on the Nakbah
“Her predecessor, Rice, had been even more dismissive. In July 2008 during talks with Palestinian leaders over compensation for refugees who fled or were forced from their homes when Israel was established in 1948, she said: “Bad things happen to pe…
Posted on January 25, 2011 by As'ad
Sa`ib `Uraykat knows he is a joke
“”What good am I if I’m the joke of my wife, if I’m so weak?”" You are a joke to all the Arab people and you are a buffoon to boot.
Posted on January 25, 2011 by As'ad
Nasrallah’s speech
Nasrallah was correct in this speech: he said that the international reaction would have been much difference had the violent protests and vandalism been perpetrated by the March 8 forces in Lebanon. Can you dispute that?
Posted on January 25, 2011 by As'ad