Archive for April 3, 2011
I announce to you
It is easy to announce to you the birth of an ugly and repugnant government: the government of NATO and Aljazeera that will inherit the Qadhdhafi regime will be more submissive to Western governments than the puppet government of Maliki in Iraq, even.
Posted on April 3, 2011 by As'ad
The Qatari-Saudi alliance
Mark my words: the Qatari-Saudi alliance would prove to be as dangerous and destructive as the Saudi-Israeli alliance.
Posted on April 3, 2011 by As'ad
Business between Arab tyrannies and Israel
“Israeli law allows doing business in Tunisia, although this is banned by Tunisian law and business is conducted quietly. Israeli exports to Tunisia – of chemicals and communication equipment – totaled $101,000 in 2010, while imports – mainly …
Posted on April 3, 2011 by As'ad
Zionists are still freaking out: We will always cry for you, O Mubarak
“While it is unlikely that Egypt will abrogate its commitment to the Camp David Accords in the near future, a major shift in Egyptian foreign policy down the line is not out of the question. Because popular opinion in Egypt and across the Midd…
Posted on April 3, 2011 by As'ad
Zionism is racism, always
“Two new Israeli laws affecting Israel’s Palestinian Arab residents would promote discrimination and stifle free expression, Human Rights Watch said today. One would authorize rural, Jewish-majority communities to reject Palestinian Arab citizens of…
Posted on April 3, 2011 by As'ad
Qatar
Qatar is sponsoring the birth of a new Libyan channel (operated from Doha) and answering to the lousy Mustafa `Abdul-Jalil, and his sons, Khamis, Sayf Al-Islam, Sa`idi, and Haniba`l, etc.
Posted on April 3, 2011 by As'ad
Kristof: the selective feminist
“We were all moved by Eman al-Obeidy, the woman who burst into the reporters’ hotel in Tripoli with her story of gang-rape and torture, only to be dragged away by security goons. If we had not intervened in Libya, Qaddafi forces would have reached Be…
Posted on April 3, 2011 by As'ad
The government of Qadhdhafi’s henchmen
How can I support a movement championed by Bernard-Henry Levi?
Posted on April 3, 2011 by As'ad
Blaming the Libyan dead for NATO bombs
“Badly burned survivors described scenes of carnage, with the fighters killed in a flash, as a cluster of rebel vehicles were lifted off the ground and then landed in fiery wrecks.The deaths underscored the dangers faced by Western allies as they rely …
Posted on April 3, 2011 by As'ad
Defaced Middle East Despots
From NYT magazine.PS New York Times would not dare print a picture of a defaced Israeli leader.
Posted on April 3, 2011 by As'ad
Journalism of the Future
“I was depressed to read the internal AOL memo that leaked just before it bought your site. It stated that the company wants 95 percent of stories to be written based on what people are searching for. It also said that writers must choose the…
Posted on April 3, 2011 by As'ad
The lousy Muslim Brotherhood
The UK’s Muslim Brotherhood support the Western intervention in Libya: ”The Muslim Association of Britain (MAB) is in agreement with the enforcement of the no-fly in Libya, by Britain and its allies in order to protect Libyan civilians…” (thank…
Posted on April 3, 2011 by As'ad
Brazil’s support for the Israeli death industry
Read the report about Brazil’s relations with the Israeli arms industry.
Posted on April 3, 2011 by As'ad
Zionism is racism, always
“Twelfth-grade students from Herzliya’s Hayovel High School took part in a simulated shooting attack in which the targets were figures decked out with the Arab keffiyeh headdress, Haaretz has learned.” (thanks Farah)
Posted on April 3, 2011 by As'ad
This is Zionism
“The threat is real and imminent. Fahmi is due to find out in the next few days whether the Israeli ministry of the interior will order him to leave the city where he was born because, like many Israelis and Palestinians, he spent an extended period…
Posted on April 3, 2011 by As'ad
Meet the faces of the next lousy subservient government of Libya
“Moustapha Abdeljalil, ancien ministre de la Justice du colonel.”Pour nous, souligne le journaliste, il reste le président de la cour d’appel de Tripoli qui, à deux reprises, a confirmé la peine de mort des infirmières. Un fidèle parmi les…
Posted on April 3, 2011 by As'ad
Judge Goldstone
It is actually hilarious how much space the New York Times has allocated to this man today based on an op-ed column he wrote for the Washington Post. The website of the paper is promoting it right and left. You can’t escape it. But his word…
Posted on April 3, 2011 by As'ad
This man once led all American Jewish organizations
“They include a hearing into whether a left-leaning American group that calls itself pro-Israel and pro-peace is a “Zionist organization” and a law that removes money from municipalities or Israeli Arab groups that commemorate Independence Day by n…
Posted on April 3, 2011 by As'ad