Archive for May 8, 2011
US labor and Bahrain (I hope that do the same against Israel)
“The largest U.S. labor group wants President Barack Obama’s administration to suspend a free trade pact with Bahrain over human rights abuses in the kingdom’s crackdown on anti-government protests.” (thanks Shawna)
Posted on May 8, 2011 by As'ad
Ben Wedeman on Syria
“Good Egyptian source just back from Washington says israel is syrian regime’s most ardent advocate with congress, Obama administration.” (thanks Sam)
Posted on May 8, 2011 by As'ad
Jerusalem
“I know, I know – beautiful, holy, history lingers in its every shady corner. Yet the treatment of Arabs as second-class citizens, the ghastly security wall smashing through its edges and the omnipresent guns have spoilt it. Jerusalem is the perfe…
Posted on May 8, 2011 by As'ad
What Churchill said
“Later in life, Churchill writes that in order to counter guerrilla sabotage, “British military authorities found it necessary to clear whole districts of their inhabitants and gather the population into concentration camps. As the railways were cont…
Posted on May 8, 2011 by As'ad
The new Egypt
“The new attitude echoes through recent statements by Egyptian officials. Foreign Minister Nabil Elaraby has called “shameful” Egypt’s decision to close the Gaza border in 2007. Such a description would never have been publicly uttered under the Mu…
Posted on May 8, 2011 by As'ad
“While Bahrain demolishes mosques, U.S. stays silent”
“Nothing, however, has struck harder at the fabric of this nation, where Shiites outnumber Sunnis nearly 4 to 1, than the destruction of Shiite worship centers. The Obama administration has said nothing in public about the destruction. Ba…
Posted on May 8, 2011 by As'ad
There is an organization that rules the world, according to this crackpot writing in An-Nahar
“تسرب عبر وكالات الصحافة والاعلام تقرير نسب الى احد زعماء فيديرالية الاخوة العالمية IFB وهي المنظمة السرية التي تتحكم بالعالم بسيطرتها على…
Posted on May 8, 2011 by As'ad
Can you imagine the uproar if they were Christian or Jewish?
“Two Muslim religious leaders were asked to leave a commercial airliner in Memphis – and were told it was because the pilot refused to fly with them aboard. Masudur Rahman and another imam had already been allowed to board their Delta Conn…
Posted on May 8, 2011 by As'ad
Gilles Kepel is correct in his assessment here: that Bin Laden has been dead already (politically speaking, before conspiracy theorists run wild)
“In April, Ayman al-Zawahri, the Egyptian-born doctor who was Al Qaeda’s second in command, posted an hourlong video from his hideout in Pakistan singing the praises of Abboud al-Zomor, the former intelligence officer who supplied the bullets that ki…
Posted on May 8, 2011 by As'ad
Al-Qa`idah really hearts and protect Israel
It is known that Al-Qa`idah never ever attacked Israel. In fact, it seems that Bin Laden did not adhere to boycott of companies that helped Israel. I read in the New York Times that he drank Coke.
Posted on May 8, 2011 by As'ad
Shlomo Avineri
I have always said that in the West, a Zionist is by default an expert on the Middle East no matter what. Fanatic Zionism is the qualification needed to work on the Middle East in the US government, for example. Think about all those who ne…
Posted on May 8, 2011 by As'ad
Now (and forever) Hariri
Look at this brief reference to the interview with Egypt’s foreign minister, Nabil Al-`Arabi, in the propaganda website, Now (and foreverr) Hariri. It basically ignored all the criticisms of US and Israel and even the reference to Saudi Arabia. &…
Posted on May 8, 2011 by As'ad
Shari`ah “law”
I was reading this long article about the life of Bin Laden in the house in Pakistan in the New York Times, and I ran into yet another reference to “Shari`ah law”. You have to stop that redundant reference. Shari`ah is Islamic law, so when …
Posted on May 8, 2011 by As'ad
If an Arab-American or a Muslim-American said that, he/she would have been taken to Guantamo
I don’t know if there is a link for this (and please send it to me if there is one), but the new stupid issue of Time magazine on Bin Laden has an interview with the lousy fascistic, Rudy Guiliani. In it, he praised vengeance and revenge and said…
Posted on May 8, 2011 by As'ad
Western human rights organizations (and other NGOs) have lost much of their credibility
It is clear to me. That since the Israeli war on Lebanon in 2006 and the assault on Gaza in 2008, Western human rights organizations (and other major NGOs) have lost much of their credibility. You have a state that is an aggressor and those…
Posted on May 8, 2011 by As'ad
In Latakia there is Fitnah
The famous two lines of poetry that have been attributed to Abu Al-`Ala’ Al-Ma`arri:في اللاذقيّة فتنة, ما بين طه والمسيحهذا بناقوس يدقّ, وذا بمئذنة يصيح”(In Latakia there is a Fitnah, between Taha …
Posted on May 8, 2011 by As'ad