Archive for May 22, 2011

Obama administration is still impressed with Saudi reforms: beheadings continue

“Saudi Arabia on Sunday beheaded a Pakistani convicted of killing a fellow citizen in the holy city of Mecca, the official SPA news agency said.”

Posted on May 22, 2011 by As'ad

House of Saud’s contributions to civilization

“Islamic charities from Saudi Arabia and the United Arab Emirates financed a network in U.S. ally Pakistan that recruited children as young as eight to wage holy war, a local newspaper reported on Sunday, citing Wikileaks. A U.S. diplomatic cable pu…

Posted on May 22, 2011 by As'ad

Freedom

If freedom means Egyptian General, Tantawi (the head of the unelected Military Council whose members were all hand picked by Husni Mubarak), I don’t want it.

Posted on May 22, 2011 by As'ad

Al-Arabiyyah: serving the White Man

So Al-Arabiyyah (the news station of King Fahd’s brother-in-law) posted a flash about news that armed men loyal to Yemeni dictator were surrounding the “UAE embassy where the US ambassador is present.”  It later re-edited the text to indicate that…

Posted on May 22, 2011 by As'ad

I am not making this up

Bahraini MPs (supporters of the Bahraini dictatorship) called on Syrian regime to end repression. I am not kidding.

Posted on May 22, 2011 by As'ad

A tribute to a rapist (by one of four Arab friends of Israel)

`Ali Salim is a silly and unfunny and sleazy Egyptian playwright.  He writes–of course–for the mouthpiece of Prince Salman, Ash-Sharq Al-Awsat.  But he became known in the Western Zionist press because he visited Israel and wrote a boring b…

Posted on May 22, 2011 by As'ad

To Jimmy Carter

Anyone who says that the apartheid analogy applies to the West Bank but not to “Israel proper” is a racist.  Pure and simple.

Posted on May 22, 2011 by As'ad

Israel’s existence

For the first time I find myself in agreement with Obama on the Middle East.  He just told AIPAC that Israel’s existence should not be “subject of debate.”  I can’t agree more.  It is never a subject of debate as far as I am concerned. &…

Posted on May 22, 2011 by As'ad

Friedman in Beirut

Read this article by a writer who manages to write several columns a week without ever coming up with an original idea or insight.  It is based on the views of his right-wing, racist anti-Syrian (people) contacts.  And notice that he beg…

Posted on May 22, 2011 by As'ad

German occupiers in Afghanistan

“Germany’s military, the Bundeswehr, has released new and explosive details about a violent altercation between demonstrators and German soldiers in northern Afghanistan on Wednesday that left 12 dead and dozens wounded, including two German soldiers. …

Posted on May 22, 2011 by As'ad

War mongering

So Obama mentions a missile name before the AIPAC conference, and the audience goes wild for the mere mention of a missile.  Can you imagine if an Arab or Muslim audience goes wild for the mere mention of a missile? Can you imagine the various rac…

Posted on May 22, 2011 by As'ad

Rape and sexism in France

“The groups said that 75,000 women were raped in France every year and that sexist language in public tended to minimise the gravity of crime, turning it into a vague and more or less acceptable act.   The groups referred to specific statem…

Posted on May 22, 2011 by As'ad

US presidents and the Israeli lobby

Can you imagine if US presidents regularly speak (and prostrate before) China lobby or Japan lobby or Russia lobby or even Belgium lobby?  I mean, the situation is bizarre. That every year when the Israeli lobby convenes its annual conference, all…

Posted on May 22, 2011 by As'ad

Boycott Israel in Lebanon

Oh, you bet the show would be closed down.  Leftist comrades in Lebanon were planning major protests against the presence of an Israeli photographers. That is how serious the boycott of Israel is taken.  You bet.  (Oh, notice the photo c…

Posted on May 22, 2011 by As'ad

Obama’s favorite Arabs

Of course, I have maintained from day one that there will be no difference in foreign policy between Obama and Bush.  The same Zionist fanatics who ran Middle East policy, for example, in the Bush White House are either still there or there are pe…

Posted on May 22, 2011 by As'ad

Without dignity

A lot of people are without dignity, but it takes an extreme form of low dignity to become a political servant of House of Saud.

Posted on May 22, 2011 by As'ad

Obama’s speech and divisions in the Arab world

“President Obama, in his speech on Thursday about the changes in the Arab world, spoke directly to that feeling. “Divisions of tribe, ethnicity and religious sect were manipulated as a means of holding on to power, or taking it away from somebody els…

Posted on May 22, 2011 by As'ad

Do you know that Foxman is now interviewed regularly on foreign policy?

““If Dennis Ross was in the inner circle in the early days, this administration would not have made that colossal settlements error,” Mr. Foxman said. “He would have said, ‘Don’t go there.’ ””

Posted on May 22, 2011 by As'ad

This AP story is bizarre: it alleges that Husni Mubarak was a gay rights advocate

“While many of their compatriots savor a new political era, gays in Egypt and Tunisia aren’t sharing the joy, according to activists who wonder if the two revolutions could in fact make things worse for an already marginalized community.”

Posted on May 22, 2011 by As'ad

Saudi women: why they are not on the agenda of Western feminists

Can you imagine if this happened in Iran? Can you imagine the world reactions? Can you imagine the outrage that would pour from Western capitals?  ”RIYADH, Saudi Arabia — Authorities detained a Saudi woman on Saturday after she launched a campai…

Posted on May 22, 2011 by As'ad