Archive for October 12, 2011
May 17 Agreement: in your dreams, o Zionist hoodlums
I was reading the text of the May 17 Agreement: the humiliating treaty that Israel imposed on Lebanon in 1983 (of course, it was later tossed into the garbage where all peace treaties with Israel belongs). In article 4, it says that each party wi…
Posted on October 12, 2011 by As'ad
by way of comparisons: two assassinations
Karim sent me this: ”f you compare: it took 26 israeli assassins in Dubai 2010 for a real operation [against one man] but now only two iranians for a fairy tale. What a joke.”
Posted on October 12, 2011 by As'ad
An Atlas of Middle Eastern Affairs
I am reading the new An Atlas of Middle Eastern Affairs published by Routledge. I will say more later but the section on the Arab-Israeli conflict is so grossly biased against the Palestinians: and the others use the word “Israeli” even in refere…
Posted on October 12, 2011 by As'ad
The Lebanese arms dealer and Rafiq Hariri
“C’est d’ailleurs ce dernier qui a, selon M. Takieddine, débloqué le versement des commissions pour la vente des frégates à l’Arabie saoudite, en 1997. M. Hariri aurait effectué lui même des paiements à hauteur de 130 millions de dollars en dire…
Posted on October 12, 2011 by As'ad
Al-Manar TV’s plot
If you want a comical assassination plot scenario, there was one on Al-Manar the other day. I did not see it but I saw the transcript. It is really either derived from science fiction or from the press conference of the Justice Department the oth…
Posted on October 12, 2011 by As'ad
Yusuf Al-Qaradawi: he has blood on his hands now
During the attacks on Copts, this kooky fanatical cleric (no one understood the fundamentalists and their danger like Nasser), appeared on Aljazeera and seemed to condone the attacks by calling for support for the Military Council and its actions.
Posted on October 12, 2011 by As'ad
Aljazeera and Al-Arabiyya: their war on Copts
Those two lousy news stations are defaming Copts and sponsoring a war on Copts. They are now airing “footage” released by the Military Council in which a Coptic priest is threatening Tantawi. Somebody needs to ask them: who killed whom, in Cairo?…
Posted on October 12, 2011 by As'ad
The puzzle solved: Iranian plot in DC
The site of Al-Arabiyya (the news station of King Fahd’s brother-in-law) “reports” that they were able to identify the “master mind” behind the bombing and assassination plot in DC. His name is Ahmadinajad. Kid you not. PS Al-Arabiyya is no…
Posted on October 12, 2011 by As'ad
The Iranian plot in the US: more info
Well, Gulf students in Texas area have come up with an important detail about the accused. Apparently, he was an opponent of the Iranian regime. So wait: we have a new important detail. The Iranian government contacted an opponent of the re…
Posted on October 12, 2011 by As'ad
The Iranian plot thickens: the saga continues
More reporting on the site of Al-Arabiyya (the news station of King Fahd’s brother-in-law): it maintains that Iran relied on armed gangs AND terrorist organizations to carry out the assassination and bombing plot in the US. So Iran, not only deci…
Posted on October 12, 2011 by As'ad
Iranian assassination plot VI
An Iran expert on Al-Arabiyya, the news station of King Fahd’s brother-in-law, said that Ahmadinajad was in charge of an assassination carried out by Iran in Berlin in 1992. He said he was reminded of that when the plot in DC included the assassi…
Posted on October 12, 2011 by As'ad
LA Times on US right to kill anywhere in the world
“But wait a minute. Two weeks ago, the United States assassinated one of its enemies in Yemen, on Yemeni soil. If the U.S. believes it has the right to assassinate enemies like Anwar Awlaki anywhere in the world in the name of a “war on terror” that ha…
Posted on October 12, 2011 by As'ad
Now the racism of the LA Times
“Shalit’s captivity has been a source of national anguish in Israel.” And the captivity of some 10,000 Palestinian prisoners has not been a source of anguish for Arabs, you blatant racists?
Posted on October 12, 2011 by As'ad
The Iranian assassination plot V
Wait: the Iranian-American that the super secret unit of the Quds Force selected for the plot to bomb the Israeli and Saudi embassies in DC and to kill the Saudi ambassador has a criminal record. So the Iranian government picked someone to execut…
Posted on October 12, 2011 by As'ad
Anti-Coptic agitation on Al-Arabiyya TV
The news station of King Fahd’s brother-in-law just “reported” using the authority of the Egyptian Military Council that the Copts were the ones who “threatened” the military. Kid you not.
Posted on October 12, 2011 by As'ad
Mustafa Abdul-NATO on the virtues of Italian colonialism
Fabio sent me this: ”Dear As’ad,here is something you will certainly like to comment on in your blog. The self-appointed president of the lousy “transition council” of Lybia, Mustafa Abdel Jalil, has recently declared during a meeting with the I…
Posted on October 12, 2011 by As'ad
Ghalyun on Mufti’s son
When asked about the murder of the son of Syria’s Mufti on LBC-TV, Burhan Ghalyun said: I don’t know who killed Sariya Hassun, but Hassun bears the responsibility because he stood with the regime.
Posted on October 12, 2011 by As'ad
Maryam convoy
So a group of pro-March 8 women organized a trip to Aleppo the other day. It was during their meeting with the Syrian Mufti that he came up with his threat of suicide attacks in the event of a Western attack on Syria and Lebanon (I don’t know why…
Posted on October 12, 2011 by As'ad
Syrian regime demonstration
Notice that when demonstrations take place in support of the Syrian regime they are not covered. Their coverage conflicts with the narrative of Western governments. Tyrannical regimes do have basis of support.
Posted on October 12, 2011 by As'ad
Racism of the New York Times: what Arab lives are worth
I received the New York Times this morning: and they have a headline about an Israeli solider to be released in a prisioners’ swap. The headline was about that one Israeli terrorist in custody. Look at the accompanying picture on the front …
Posted on October 12, 2011 by As'ad