Archive for March 30, 2011
4 million Israeli cluster bombs
this is the number of cluster bombs that Israel planted in South Lebanon. In 2006 alone, 47 Lebanese were killed and 353 were injured from those bombs.
Posted on March 30, 2011 by As'ad
7817
Israel has violated Lebanese sovereignty 7817 times since 2006 but Lebanon is yet to launch an official complaint at Israel at the UN Security Council.
Posted on March 30, 2011 by As'ad
GazaStan
The lousy Hamas government in Gaza bans a commemoration of Land Day.
Posted on March 30, 2011 by As'ad
Is the Libyan opposition Kosher, asks a top US diplomat?
“Gene A. Cretz, the American ambassador to Libya, said last week that he was impressed by the democratic instincts of the opposition leaders and that he did not believe that they were dominated by extremists. But he acknowledged that there was no way t…
Posted on March 30, 2011 by As'ad
Asad’s speech
Basically, he said that the reforms amount to a conspiracy. Good night.
Posted on March 30, 2011 by As'ad
Meet the “leaders” of the Libyan “revolution”
“But oddly, the Libyan revolution has been led by inauspicious technocrats from within the Gadhafi regime. One of these is Mahmoud Jibril, a US-educated professor who became secretary of the national planning council under Gadhafi. Jibri…
Posted on March 30, 2011 by As'ad
Tunisia speaks: Israel surprised
“On Sunday, the Israeli cabinet signed off on a package of funding to help Tunisian Jews move to Israel, citing “the worsening of the Tunisian authorities’ and society’s attitude toward the Jewish community, as well as the difficult economic situati…
Posted on March 30, 2011 by As'ad
lies unto the nations
“Police released four Palestinians residing illegally in Israel, who were arrested Tuesday on suspicion that they had raped an 11-year old Israeli boy, when it turned out the latter had been lying.”
Posted on March 30, 2011 by As'ad
repression in Bahrain: not in the US press
Another source in Bahrain sent me this: ”They are arresting people left and right now. Its crazy. EVERYONE is getting arrested. It doesn’t matter who. They even arrested Bahraini blogger Mahmood Al Yousif (at 3 am by the…
Posted on March 30, 2011 by As'ad
Counting the calories of the people of Gaza: all that you have done to our people is registered in notebook, o occupiers
“The Tel Aviv District Court last week ordered the office of the Coordinator of Government Activities in the Territories to release internal documents that detail the minimum nutritional requirements and calorie calculations needed to sustain the re…
Posted on March 30, 2011 by As'ad
King of Jordan playing video games
Here, King PlayStation is playing video games with his brothers on his private plane. (thanks Chris)
Posted on March 30, 2011 by As'ad
Gap between rich and poor in Syria
Syrian dissident, Fayiz Sarah writes about the gap between rich and poor in Syria. (thanks Kamal)
Posted on March 30, 2011 by As'ad
News for sale on Al-Arabiyyah TV (the news station of King Fahd’s brother-in-law)
A well-known Western correspondent in the Middle East sent me this: ”fyi…i met a German diplomat who said German and other governments are paying al Arabiya what he said was millions of dollars to send their reporters to do soft-ball economic…
Posted on March 30, 2011 by As'ad
Dialect pronunciation on Al-Jazeera
Comrade Joseph sent me this: ”I have noticed in the last two months a very interesting development on Al-Jazeera, pursuant to other relatively recent language-related changes that have been noticeable for a while. While in the last year plus, …
Posted on March 30, 2011 by As'ad
Glamour magazine covers the Middle East
“GLAMOUR: In Miral, you play a Palestinian woman who’s orphaned. What drew you to this material?FREIDA PINTO: The moment I read the script, I fell in love with the story, because it wasn’t just a story about four women; it was a story of the peo…
Posted on March 30, 2011 by As'ad
Look how nice the US is? I mean, really. What a humanitarian gesture.
“The United States on Monday gave a green light to sales of Libyan crude oil from rebel-held territory, giving a potential boost to forces battling Muammar Gaddafi. A U.S. Treasury Department official said Libyan rebels would not be subject …
Posted on March 30, 2011 by As'ad