Archive for June 28, 2011
Sectarianism and Syrian opposition
I spoke before about the anti-`Alawite bigotry in Lebanon and Syria: i speak about it as a phenomenon before and after the rise of the Ba`th Asad faction. There should be no excuse to it, at all. One does not justify anti-Semitism and one s…
Posted on June 28, 2011 by As'ad
Latest propaganda ploy by Buthayna Sha`ban: Syrian regime propaganda learning from US propaganda
She is talking about the Syrian people who were killed by the Syrian regime: ”When you have a violent atmosphere, collateral damage happens.”" (thanks Flan)
Posted on June 28, 2011 by As'ad
ICC: The International Court for the Prosecution of Black and Brown People by the White Man
This court is much worse than we had assumed. It is far worse than the International Court of Justice which at least dared to rule against the US during the Cold War. This ICC should have been seen for what it is the moment the US decided t…
Posted on June 28, 2011 by As'ad
If Muslim or Christian Arabs did that on Jewish homes, this would be covered in specials on TV and on front pages of newspapers in the US
“Unknown persons sprayed racial slurs and a Star of David on a Palestinian home in the West Bank village of Beitilu. The vandals wrote among other things: Mohammed is dead. Police are searching for the culprits.”
Posted on June 28, 2011 by As'ad
If Muslim or Christian Arabs did that on Jewish homes, this would be covered in specials on TV and on front pages of newspapers in the US
“Unknown persons sprayed racial slurs and a Star of David on a Palestinian home in the West Bank village of Beitilu. The vandals wrote among other things: Mohammed is dead. Police are searching for the culprits.”
Posted on June 28, 2011 by As'ad
House of Saud really hates Egyptian Uprising
The first story on the website of Al-Arabiyyah (the news station of King Fahd’s brother-in-law) is a report on a kooky Kuwaiti cleric who opposes the ouster of Mubarak and does not consider the victims of the Egyptian uprising to be “martyrs.”
Posted on June 28, 2011 by As'ad
King PlayStation: Uneasy lies his head
King PlayStation and his wife used to take an annual trip this time of the year to California and drive on his motorcycle along the 49-mile drive in San Francisco area. Not this year. He and his wife are too nervous and too insecure to visi…
Posted on June 28, 2011 by As'ad
US invaded Afghanistan to oust the Taliban: and now the US won’t leave Afghanistan unless the Taliban comes back to power
“U.S. officials met three times this spring with Mohammed Tayeb Agha, an aide to Taliban leader Mullah Mohammed Omar, and have pushed to take Taliban leaders off a United Nations blacklist, a move that would make it easier for them to travel abroad.”
Posted on June 28, 2011 by As'ad
Israel prepares to kill
“Senior officials in Jerusalem said Monday that Israel has received information that organizers of the Gaza flotilla may be bringing chemical substances on the ships to use against Israeli soldiers to prevent them from boarding the ships.” Don’…
Posted on June 28, 2011 by As'ad
David Mamet
Comrade Laleh sent me this: ”hasn’t transformed that much. he was alsways always fanatically Zionist,which is usually a better index of how progressive someone is than their view on global warming.”
Posted on June 28, 2011 by As'ad
Zionism is racism, always
“Israel has over 100 preschools and schools with a majority of Ethiopian students, a new report by the Knesset Research Center revealed. The report will be submitted to the Knesset’s Committee for Immigration, Absorption and Diaspora Affairs on…
Posted on June 28, 2011 by As'ad
Morocco censorship in Dubai
Private sources confirm this to me: that Morocco pressured Dubai’s polygamous potentates to fire a correspondent who cared to cover protests in Morocco.
Posted on June 28, 2011 by As'ad
Zionism is racism and bigotry and prejudice
“The Interior Ministry is refusing citizenship and new immigrant status to a homosexual married to a Jewish new immigrant, despite the law’s stipulation that the child, grandchild and partner of a Jew are entitled to Jewish immigrant rights. Jo…
Posted on June 28, 2011 by As'ad
Yesterday, Ethan Bronner justified Israeli killing of civilians, and today it is the turn of Isabel Kershner
It was a “confrontation” between two armies, apparently: ”The flotilla is likely to be followed with keen international interest after a previous one 13 months ago ended in bloodshed when Israeli naval commandos intercepted the six-boat flotilla …
Posted on June 28, 2011 by As'ad
Syrian energy and potential
Sometimes in the late 1990s, I ran into a high ranking Palestinian leader in Damascus. And he lived through the experiences of Jordan and then Lebanon. He told me over lunch: there is such high level of energies and potential among the Syri…
Posted on June 28, 2011 by As'ad
Zionist lies and fabrications: they are as good in propaganda as the Ba`th Party
“Did Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu’s office distribute a fake anti-flotilla video? This is exactly what some American bloggers have been claiming, after probing a video that was uploaded to YouTube on Sunday. The video, nearly three minutes…
Posted on June 28, 2011 by As'ad
praying for the master
Libyan NATO rebels praying in Benghazi. (thanks Mirvat) (AP)
Posted on June 28, 2011 by As'ad
columnists for Saudi princes
It was cute last week when editor-in-chief of Ash-Sharq Al-Awsat (mouthpiece of Prince Salman and his sons) said that he is friends with a columnist at Al-Hayat (mouthpiece of Prince Khalid bin Bribe bin Sultan). It made me wonder: what do those …
Posted on June 28, 2011 by As'ad
Fun TV
Yesterday, OTV in Lebanon hosted a debate between pro-Syrian politician, Nasir Qandil, and MP from the Hariri bloc, a Bin Ladenite Salafi by the name of Khalid Dahir, who may have been involved in the massacre of SSNP members in Halba in 2008. At…
Posted on June 28, 2011 by As'ad
It is most hilarious: orders to columnists in Saudi publication
It has been most amusing: writers and columnists in Saudi publications are obviously under strict orders to not write on any subject except Syria. No exaggeration at all. Check all Saudi and Hariri newspapers and websites: only Syria, no ot…
Posted on June 28, 2011 by As'ad