Archive for December 30, 2011
Arab League monitors
My latest blog post on Arab League monitors.
Posted on December 30, 2011 by As'ad
Mustafa Abdul-NATO
Abdul-NATO was on Al-Arabiyya (the news station of King Fahd’s brother-in-law). He said that protesters against his regime don’t represent the Libyan people and that they are fifth columnists and “infiltrators”. The able interviewer, Hasan …
Posted on December 30, 2011 by As'ad
Havel as advocate for Israeli war crimes
Have was a big advocate for Israeli war crimes. (thanks Pierre)
Posted on December 30, 2011 by As'ad
racism Israeli society
“For months many Israelis shrugged off the mosque burnings, the uprooted Palestinian olive trees and even the death threats against Jewish leftists. But when young settlers this month vandalized army bases and stoned Israeli soldiers, the question of J…
Posted on December 30, 2011 by As'ad
Tony Blair for hire, again
“”They could start in Kazakhstan, by far the most open place. Mr Nazarbayev spends fortunes on having Western public-relations firms, lobbyists and a former British prime minister, Tony Blair, burnish his image.”" (thanks Raed)
Posted on December 30, 2011 by As'ad
The ground zero mosque clown-Imam is back
“A prominent American-Muslim cleric is calling for the institution of a “sacred month” during which Muslims, Jews and Christians cease all hostilities and pilgrim to Israel. In an exclusive interview with Anglo File in Jerusalem this week, Imam F…
Posted on December 30, 2011 by As'ad
Artists for Israeli war crimes
RJ sent me this: ”I thought this story might be of interest: The NYC-based group Artists 4 Israel came to my college, Haverford College, last month under the name Defend The Future Tour. The DTF Tour (yep, they actually use that abbreviation to m…
Posted on December 30, 2011 by As'ad
Coverage of Syria
I was thinking about the propagandistic nature of Western media coverage of Syria. That the media disregard their own journalistic standards in the coverage: the extent to which they allow exaggerations and unfounded rumors to be printed and such…
Posted on December 30, 2011 by As'ad
Abu Mazen: I am no Antoine Lahd
So Abu Mazen is denying that he want to be another Antoine Lahd. I am no Antoine Lahd, he asserts. I agree. You are dumber than Lahd. (thanks “Ibn Rushd”)
Posted on December 30, 2011 by As'ad
Libya
We can easily say that the case of an Arab uprising where the West intervened heavily and militarily produced the worst results. There is not a single Arab who looks at Libya with admiration these days. What is the lesson? Too obvious…
Posted on December 30, 2011 by As'ad
I call on NATO to intervene in Turkey: wait, Turkey is a member. Never mind
“The Turkish military said Thursday that it had accidently killed at least 35 Turkish cigarette smugglers in airstrikes after mistaking them for separatist fighters in the Kurdish border region with Iraq, infuriating many of Turkey’s long-oppres…
Posted on December 30, 2011 by As'ad
Haytham Al-Manna`
This courageous fighter for human rights is a model opposition figure, by my standards. This courageous Syrian dissident is a model dissident, by my standards. He has been largely ignored by the New York Times because he is fiercely opposed…
Posted on December 30, 2011 by As'ad
Iyad Allawi
Iyad Allawi (the former puppet prime minister/car bomber/embezzler-in-Yemen/Saddam’s henchman) had an article in the New York Times. What he says in the US (about the US) is diametrically opposed to what he says in Arabic where he now (…
Posted on December 30, 2011 by As'ad
Prince Turki about Bin Laden
“To Prince Turki, OBL appeared as “a very shy person, very self-effacing, extremely sparsein his words and generally a do-gooder, someone who brought financial and medical and other support to the Afghan mujahidin.”” (thanks Nabeel)
Posted on December 30, 2011 by As'ad
It is about democracy, damn it
““The agreement reinforces the strong and enduring relationship between the United States and Saudi Arabia,” Joshua R. Earnest, the White House’s deputy press secretary, said in a statement issued in Hawaii, where Mr. Obama is on vacation.”
Posted on December 30, 2011 by As'ad
What about Israel?
“At the time, there was a vigorous debate, with some lawmakers arguing that such a huge arms package would threaten the military position of Israel. Mr. Shapiro, speaking at a State Department briefing, said the administration was satisfied that the sa…
Posted on December 30, 2011 by As'ad
I must admit. I was wrong about US intentions: the US sends a strong message of support for democracy in the Middle East
““This sale will send a strong message to countries in the region that the United States is committed to stability in the gulf and the broader Middle East,” said Andrew J. Shapiro, the assistant secretary of state for political-military affairs.
Posted on December 30, 2011 by As'ad
American "democracy-building" groups in Egypt
Forget about the rest of the story, just read this: ”Security forces shut down three American-financed democracy-building groups”. How I like this “democracy-building” groups terminology. So they just build democracy? How sweet.  …
Posted on December 30, 2011 by As'ad
Have you read that Israel has been bombing and killing Palestinians??
I looked at the Times this morning to see if they covered the Israeli bombing of Palestinians. I did not find anything on the subject but I found this instead.PS There is one item that is slated in tomorrow’s edition. It identifies the Pale…
Posted on December 30, 2011 by As'ad
Al-Arabiyya TV
I swear this is true: there was this morning a Saudi reporter for the House of Saud speaking extensively on Al-Arabiyya (news station of King Fahd’s brother-in-law) on how the new Arab democracies should work on formulating new constitutions and how th…
Posted on December 30, 2011 by As'ad