Archive for November 21, 2011
Anti-Alawite chants in Brussels
Here is a group of Syrian opposition supporters chanting against `Alawites.
Posted on November 21, 2011 by As'ad
What is happening Qatif in Saudi Arabia?
Demonstrations in Qatif after Saudi security forces shot a kid. (thanks Farah)
Posted on November 21, 2011 by As'ad
Khaddam
According to the testimony of `Abdul-Halim Khaddam, the regime of Hafidh Al-Asad represented the golden age of Syria as far as the Syrian control of Lebanon is concerned. It is only the regime of Bashshar that is bad, he said in his account for t…
Posted on November 21, 2011 by As'ad
Israel’s dirty hands in Africa
“Former Pensioner Affairs Minister Rafi Eitan attended official meetings that Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu and President Shimon Peres held last week in Jerusalem with Ugandan President Yoweri Museveni, according to a senior Israeli official.  …
Posted on November 21, 2011 by As'ad
Burhan Ghalyun
I only speak for myself; I don’t represent a movement in Lebanon or in Syria. But I call on Burhan Ghalyun to resign from the Syrian National Council. After the second show of thuggery by the goons of the Council in Cairo, and the news abou…
Posted on November 21, 2011 by As'ad
The lousy Syrian National Council
So it has issued its political program. It promised to rule Syria jointly with the Syrian military (the same one responsible for shooting at civilians) in the transitional period. And then regarding the Golan Heights, it becomes clear that …
Posted on November 21, 2011 by As'ad
US teargas in Egypt, same used by Israel, US-maker flies Israeli flag
Pat sent me this: ”Thought you might like to report, that the CSI tear gas used in Cairo today per Hossam Hamlawy: http://www.arabawy.org/2011/11/19/mr-donald-smith-pigs-police/ and Salon:http://www.salon.com/2011/11/20/egypt_uses_u_s_teargas_on_…
Posted on November 21, 2011 by As'ad
Another scandal about Bahrain
“وأوضحت أن التقرير سيتضمن توصيات سياسية، إلى جانب الحقوقية، ضمن تخريجة اقترحتها بعض العواصم الغربية التي أفيد أنها “اطلعت على التقرير واق
Posted on November 21, 2011 by As'ad
rape in Israel
“A record number of people turned to rape crisis centers in January 2011, the month following the verdict in the rape trial of former President Moshe Katsav, according to the Association of Rape Crisis Centers in Israel. The association also says 2010 …
Posted on November 21, 2011 by As'ad
Nada Bakri on the attack on Ba`th headquarters
“The raid could not be independently confirmed because Damascus has banned most foreign journalists from entering the country.” So Bakri has a long article on the attack on the Ba`th Party headquarters in Damascus but then adds this qualification…
Posted on November 21, 2011 by As'ad
US role in Egypt in defense of the Military Council
““We should not make it look like we’re deeply involved in trying to solve this,” he said. “Most Egyptians would not appreciate that.”” Yes, Mr. Sullivan. The Egyptian people are dumb and they don’t know that the US government hav…
Posted on November 21, 2011 by As'ad
3 days in Egypt
In 3 days in Egypt, the government of Tantawi has managed to butcher 30 Egyptians and injure more than a 1000. Yet, there is no uproar in the Arab League or the UN. The US and EU–make no mistake about it–are complicit all in order to save…
Posted on November 21, 2011 by As'ad
Hebrew Labor
“But the interrogation revealed that Meir Ettinger, 19, had a completely different goal in mind. Ettinger, a resident of the West Bank settlement of Yitzhar and a grandson of the late Rabbi Meir Kahane, said he was investigating on behalf of a project …
Posted on November 21, 2011 by As'ad
Muhammad Rashid
Muhammad Rashid, aka Khalid Salam, has recently become a writer. Several of you sent me his articles in Aljazeera and in Al-Arabiyya. This man is so dirty and corrupt, and his damage to the Palestinian cause is so immense that I won’t link to any…
Posted on November 21, 2011 by As'ad
From an expert on offshoots to peddler of rumors
“Sure he offers some points to dispute the really really trashy rumors about Rai, but in giving a platform to the rumors, and at points making them seem open to possibility and perhaps respectable, Young stoops lower than I can remember in the last eig…
Posted on November 21, 2011 by As'ad
Out of business at Pizza Hut
“The CIA was forced to curtail its spying in Lebanon, where U.S. operatives and their agents collect crucial intelligence on Syria, terrorist groups and other targets, after the arrests of several CIA informants in Beirut this year, according to U.S. o…
Posted on November 21, 2011 by As'ad
The disgrace of Obama administration: a constant of US foreign policy
The US ambassador in Saudi Arabia says that Saudi Arabia is not like any other country that is witnessing uprisings. He said that Saudi Arabia is different because its government is “different from all the other governments” [in the region, I pre…
Posted on November 21, 2011 by As'ad
Lies of the Bahrain News Agency
I should have known. There are no limits to the lies of the Bahrain news agency. Yesterday, I liked to them about a story that An-Nahda party in Tunisia stood against the Bahrain uprising. Here, the party officially denies the allegat…
Posted on November 21, 2011 by As'ad