Archive for October 19, 2011
What is happening in Syria?
My latest post for Al-Akhbar English: ”What is happening in Syria”
Posted on October 19, 2011 by As'ad
Arab Uprisings
I am speaking about the Arab uprisings at UC, Berkeley in November.
Posted on October 19, 2011 by As'ad
Islamist threats
Rashid Ghannushi of An-Nahda in Tunisia today threatened that “they” will take to the streets if the elections were rigged. I bet that it means that they will protest if they don’t win. Qatar and Saudi Arabia agree, I am sure.
Posted on October 19, 2011 by As'ad
Hizbullah in Moscow
This was news that I did not see reported. There is a high ranking parliamentary delegation of Hizbullah in an official visit to Russia. It is unprecedented. The delegation is headed by Muhammad Ra`d, head of the Hizbullah bloc i…
Posted on October 19, 2011 by As'ad
Turki As-Sudayri
Al-Arabiyya hosted the editor-in-chief of Al-Riyadh newspaper, Turki As-Sudayri, to speak about his recent article in which he called for labeling Iran, and not Israel, as the number one enemy of the Arabs. The reporter mentioned that his article…
Posted on October 19, 2011 by As'ad
Khalid Mish`al
I don’t trust Khalid Mish`al, as a Palestinian leader. Something about him strikes me as shifty and unprincipled. I can see him take his movement the same route that the lousy Yasir `Arafat took his Fath movement. And if Arafat surren…
Posted on October 19, 2011 by As'ad
Here is a critique of the Iranian plot in DC
“But we don’t yet understand why a man arrested — purportedly for an assassination attempt — waived his right to a lawyer and within hours started to give the government all the evidence it needed to fill in any gaps in their case. His cooperation is…
Posted on October 19, 2011 by As'ad
Mustafa Abdul-NATO and Hillary
Did you see the pictures of Mustafa Abdul-NATO and Hillary? The man looked confused: he seemed not sure what to do. I felt he was wondering to himself: what am I to do? Shall I sit on the couch next to her, or shall I sit on the floor under…
Posted on October 19, 2011 by As'ad
Burhan Ghalyun and Syrian opposition
I can report to you that Burhan Ghalyun is already complaining about the domineering role of the Muslim Brothers in the council (Syrian National Council), over which he presides in name. He even commented that he won’t accept to serve as a front …
Posted on October 19, 2011 by As'ad
Alepp demonstration
I woke up and watched the news on Aljazeera. I saw the most massive demonstration in Syria in recent weeks. It was huge. It turned out to be a pro-regime demonstration. I am sure that you wont read about it in the New York Times.
Posted on October 19, 2011 by As'ad
Fighting Israel
“Shalit also said he would be very happy if remaining Palestinians held in Israeli prisons were freed to return to their own families, but that he hoped “they won’t go back to fighting against Israel.” Oh, they will go back to fighting Israe…
Posted on October 19, 2011 by As'ad
Critique of Western media coverage of the prisoners’ exchange
Al-Akhbar Arabic has an excellent section criticizing Western media racism and coverage of prisoners’ exchange.
Posted on October 19, 2011 by As'ad
The election at the Egyptian Physicians’s Syndicate
It seems we have to be careful not to be misled by pro-Ikhwan propaganda in the Arabic (Saudi and Qatari) press. I received a correction about my post on the elections at the Physicians’ Syndicate in Egypt. Comrade Fawwaz Trabulsi was in Ca…
Posted on October 19, 2011 by As'ad
Two worlds: about the prisoners’ release
If you followed the release of the Arab prisoners and the Israeli occupation terrorist in the Arab social media yesterday, you would have felt that you inhabited a world that is different from the world that we inhabit in the West. People were ou…
Posted on October 19, 2011 by As'ad
French press bias
An article from Al-Akhbar detailing French press bias about the Israeli occupation terrorist who was released: “The number of articles and reports, and their headlines and contents, are enough to verify the unprofessional bias in favour of the Israeli …
Posted on October 19, 2011 by As'ad
Front page of the New York Times
1027 Palestinians were exchanged for one Israeli occupation terrorist. Guess which picture of the 1028 made it to the New York Times? Of course, one person and it was not an Arab. But that was not it. A special editorial by the …
Posted on October 19, 2011 by As'ad
Saudi Arabia: foreign interventions
In the last year, Saudi Arabia invaded Bahrain and invaded Yemen. Two countries were subjected to Saudi military intervention. Can you imagine the reactions if it was not Saudi Arabia?
Posted on October 19, 2011 by As'ad
Turkey invades Iraq
So Turkey invaded Iraq today and managed to kill a number of Kurds (of course, no one keeps track of Kurdish victims–not Arabs, not Westerners, and not Iranians.) The Kurdish tribal leaders of Iraq don’t even speak on the matter. Helicopte…
Posted on October 19, 2011 by As'ad
So was the master mind of the Iranian plot in DC a member of Mujahideen Khalq?
“If Mr. Shakuri were in fact a member of the opposition group, it would be an embarrassing turn for the United States, which announced the suspected plot with some fanfare a week ago in a televised news conference by Attorney General Eric. H. Holder Jr…
Posted on October 19, 2011 by As'ad
Documentation in the New York Times: Iran scholars
Look at this sentence: ”Iran scholars in the United States have said the suspected plot, while sounding far-fetched and amateurish, is not implausible. Ray Takeyh…” How will you (if you are a college teacher) treat this sentence if i…
Posted on October 19, 2011 by As'ad