Archive for November 13, 2011
Apology
Sorry. The picture yesterday purporting to show a poster of a Salafi woman candidate is a hoax.
Posted on November 13, 2011 by As'ad
Sir lobbyist for Saudi monarchy
“However, Saudi Arabia suffers from a series of prejudices. Prime among these are an impression that it is an absolute monarchy ruled by gerontocrats prone to blocking reform. Sir Sherard was keen to puncture these myths. “There are images of S…
Posted on November 13, 2011 by As'ad
An Ode to Arab dictatorships
“For the most part, these Arab authoritarians guaranteed a relatively stable and predictable region in which U.S. interests thrived: successful containment of the former Soviet Union, access to oil at fair prices, security for Israel, close relations w…
Posted on November 13, 2011 by As'ad
Fascists really heart Israel
“These movements are sometimes described as neo-fascist. Some of them indeed are, and all of them embrace odious and intolerant views of one sort or another. But to dismiss them as fascist, and thereby safely rule them out of European political life, o…
Posted on November 13, 2011 by As'ad
Israel kidnaps children and US media still obsessed with one Israeli terrorist occupier
“Seventeen-year-old Abdul Qader Baker still has no idea why the Israeli navy surrounded his small fishing boat at 4 a.m. Thursday morning, ordered him, his 17-year-old cousin Mohamed Baker, and his uncle, Arafat Baker, to strip off their clothes, stand…
Posted on November 13, 2011 by As'ad
Sexism in the racist entity of Israel
“Yet Israeli women say that recently some of their most basic rights have come under attack, including singing and dancing in public, vying for student government positions at a religious college, appearing on billboards in Jerusalem, speaking on a rel…
Posted on November 13, 2011 by As'ad
Their names are all terrorist sounding names
“The Arab-American head of a Dearborn, Michigan community center was arrested by local police on suspicion of being wanted for funneling money to Lebanon’s Hezbollah, but was later found to be the wrong man and released, the FBI said on Saturday.  …
Posted on November 13, 2011 by As'ad
Not in the US press: UAE repression
“Five activists, facing trial in the United Arab Emirates for allegedly insulting senior officials, have begun a hunger strike to pressure authorities to release them, the wife of one of them has said.”
Posted on November 13, 2011 by As'ad
Bahraini royal investigations
“Members of a cell arrested before they could carry out attacks on Bahrain’s Interior Ministry and the Saudi Arabian embassy had been in contact with Iran’s elite Revolutionary Guards, Bahrain’s state news agency BNA reported Sunday.” And the mem…
Posted on November 13, 2011 by As'ad
Israeli dirty hands
“US blogger Richard Silverstein said Saturday that Israel was the mastermind behind the blast the killed at least 17 people at an Iranian Revolutionary Guard Corps base near Tehran. In his blog, Tikun Olam, Silverstein quotes an Israeli expert as…
Posted on November 13, 2011 by As'ad
This is a typically racist article in the New York Times
You don’t expect any different from the Times. There is only one human being in the prisoner exchange, by their racist standards. The whole piece is about that one person. Notice how he reports on the butchery of Palestinian women and children like the…
Posted on November 13, 2011 by As'ad
Demonstrations in Syria
When you tell a story about a country, you are obligated to tell that story and to report on the various narratives regardless whether its fits your political agenda or not. That is not the case with the Zionist Western press or with the Saudi-, Qatari…
Posted on November 13, 2011 by As'ad
Israeli terrorist brutality
The Israel terrorist Army shows heroism.
Posted on November 13, 2011 by As'ad
No talk of peace before the demise of Israel
All that you have done to our people is registered in notebooks. ”Orthodox Jewish woman harasses Palestinian mother”. (thanks Farah)
Posted on November 13, 2011 by As'ad
Corrupt Arab Opposition
Here is my definition from my FB page of a corrupt (politically) Arab opposition: it is one that takes a soft or compromising stance toward Israel and its war crimes; it accepts foreign intervention to boost its fortunes; it establishes links with repr…
Posted on November 13, 2011 by As'ad
Syria between two counter-revolutions
The Syrian people is caught between two counter-revolutions: the regional one spearheaded by Saudi Arabia and Qatar (supported by US and its clients) and the local one perpetrated by the Syrian regime (supported by Iran and its allies). It is not…
Posted on November 13, 2011 by As'ad
Impudence of the Syrian government
The Syrian government is characterized by waqahah (impudence): it complaints about the Arab League and then continues to kill protesters.
Posted on November 13, 2011 by As'ad
The Berkeley teach-in
You can watch my two talks at UC, Berkeley from yesterday’s teach-in. (thanks Danny)
Posted on November 13, 2011 by As'ad
New York Times analyzes the Arab League: it is all about the love for democracy
MacFarquhar provides hilarious analysis of the Arab League: ”Arab governments, seeking to reflect popular demand for democratic change, are trying to address the issue without prompting the violent downfall of the Syrian government or internation…
Posted on November 13, 2011 by As'ad
Perry and Israel
“Rick Perry called for a radical new approach to American foreign aid spending in the GOP debate Saturday night, proposing that all aid be reduced “to zero,” and then be re-implemented only once the country made a good case for their aid. Asked later i…
Posted on November 13, 2011 by As'ad