Archive for May 21, 2011
Sons of Zayid in Pakistan
“During a recent, rare briefing to parliament, a top Pakistani air force commander made a surprising claim: a remote southwestern airfield long suspected of housing US drones used in missile strikes was actually under the control of the United Arab E…
Posted on May 21, 2011 by As'ad
Can you imagine if those were Muslims?
“”George W. Bush’s Yale fraternity has been suspended for 5 years by the university for threatening and sexist behavior. Officials ruled that the Yale DKE chapter had violated undergraduate regulations concerning “harassment, coercion and intimidati…
Posted on May 21, 2011 by As'ad
This is hilarious: even Israeli media don’t claim that Arab countries attacked Israel in 1967
In the service of Israeli war crimes, everything is possible in the US media: ”First off, he said Israel is not returning to the borders in place before the 1967 Six Day War in which Israel was attacked by its Arab neighbors but emerged from the …
Posted on May 21, 2011 by As'ad
IMF and women
“IMF-mandated government cutbacks in social welfare spending have often been achieved by cutting public sector jobs, which disproportionately impact women. Women hold most of the lower-skilled public sector jobs, and they are often the first to be cut….
Posted on May 21, 2011 by As'ad
Covering the Middle East
“The working class has no networks, that applies too to Hollywood and television entertainment and series; it is all the same intellectuals producing them. Even journalists with pretentions of being serious usually only serve elites and ignore social m…
Posted on May 21, 2011 by As'ad
Dirty laundry of House of Saud
“A London court has recently allowed the resumption of a long-running legal battle waged by a wife of the man who later became King Fahd of Saudi Arabia, according to documents seen by Dow Jones Newswires.A spokesman for a son of King Fahd, a defendant…
Posted on May 21, 2011 by As'ad
Human Rights Watch reacts to Israeli killing of unarmed protesters on Nakbah Day
I am told that Human Rights Watch did release a statement. And it is not a bad statement either, I must say. (thanks Frank)
Posted on May 21, 2011 by As'ad
Robert Fisk: a fan of Mustafa `Allush
I mean what is left to say about this washed up foreign correspondent who does not know Arabic–his claims to the contrary notwithstanding—when he expresses admiration for Mustafa `Allush–MUSTAFA `ALLUSH for potato’s sake (who serves as a butt of jo…
Posted on May 21, 2011 by As'ad
Saudi slave needs
“The Philippines has rejected an appeal from Saudi Arabia to cut the minimum wage for Filipino maids in half and will not be sending new domestic helpers until the dispute is solved, the labor chief said Friday.” (thanks Daniel)
Posted on May 21, 2011 by As'ad
Nostalgia for Saddam?
US occupations can lead to that: ”“He was a dictator, but he was one dictator; now we have many,” said another.” (thanks Khodor)
Posted on May 21, 2011 by As'ad
Mubarak’s clerical puppet
This guy was an active leader of Mubarak’s ruling party, for potato’s sake: ”Egypt’s top Sunni Muslim cleric says the country’s former president Hosni Mubarak should be granted mercy instead of facing prosecution, a German newspaper reported …
Posted on May 21, 2011 by As'ad
Tantawi
Tantawi’s chest is littered with ribbons and medals. He won them all from 1) the successive defeats that his army suffered at the hands of Israel; 2) from internal repression by the lousy Egyptian Army.
Posted on May 21, 2011 by As'ad
Feltman in Beirut
Lebanon is a country based on sectarian imbalance. Are you aware that the reputation of Feltman is so tarnished in Lebanon that he has no contact whatever anymore with any Shi`ite political representatives (I am not talking about those Shi`ites o…
Posted on May 21, 2011 by As'ad
Who but a fool?
Who but a fool would think that the Jordanian potentate speaks on behalf of the Arab people? ”Five days ago, during a closed-door meeting with a group of Middle East experts, administration officials, and journalists, King Abdullah II of Jordan g…
Posted on May 21, 2011 by As'ad
Obama is running for re-election
“An Israeli official, speaking on the condition of anonymity to discuss private deliberations, quoted Mr. Netanyahu as telling his aides: “I went in with certain concerns. I came out encouraged.””
Posted on May 21, 2011 by As'ad
Reaction to Obama’s speech
As-Safir had this headline yesterday: “Obama purchases Arab revolutions financially, and confiscates them politically”.
Posted on May 21, 2011 by As'ad
Why Saudi King was outraged: he wanted to Mubarak to kill them all
“It is not an easy sell in the Saudi capital, Riyadh, where King Abdullah was outraged by Mr. Obama’s abandonment of President Hosni Mubarak. (He told Mr. Obama that he needed to support the Egyptian leader even if the protesters in Tahrir Square wer…
Posted on May 21, 2011 by As'ad
Obama’s lousy speech
Comrade Joseph writes: ”Opposition to the United States and Israel in fact is something espoused by the peoples of the Arab world, not by their leaders, who have been insisting for decades that the US and Israel are the friends of Arabs. Indeed t…
Posted on May 21, 2011 by As'ad
How Arabs learn to hate Israel
One of the many typical Zionist cliches inserted in Obama’s lousy speech is that Arabs are fed anti-Israeli hostility by the regimes’ schools. If anything, it is the other way around. Regimes are forced to pay lip service to the Palestinian…
Posted on May 21, 2011 by As'ad
Human Rights Watch
Did Human Rights Watch notice how many Arabs were killed or injured by Israel this last week, or is the information and commentary on the matter too upsetting to the “pro-Israel funders” of the organization?
Posted on May 21, 2011 by As'ad