Archive for March 5, 2012
Netanyahu
So I am watching the speech of Netanyahu before AIPAC. I normally read those speeches to decrease the aggravation effects, but I am watching in my hotel now. It is amazing: he is giving a speech about Iran almost borrowing the same wor…
Posted on March 5, 2012 by As'ad
Parvin Ahmadinejad
She did not win. Her brother must be disappointed.
Posted on March 5, 2012 by As'ad
Interview with Prince Salman
I have mentioned before that the Kuwaiti press, since 1990 when all the Palestinian editors and journalists who made the Kuwaiti press relatively exemplary in the 1960s and 1970s, has become one of the worst examples of press in the region. It is…
Posted on March 5, 2012 by As'ad
Hizbullah and virtue
I wrote this in Arabic on Twitter and Facebook, so here an English version. Shaykh Na`im Qasim attacked permissiveness and titillation in popular culture in Lebanon. When I see Hizbullah launching the battle of “virtue”, I almost want to scream i…
Posted on March 5, 2012 by As'ad
"Cool" Salafites
Comrade Pierre writes about the promotion of Salafites in Hariri media in Lebanon.
Posted on March 5, 2012 by As'ad
The Combatant Vanguard
I have new information about the relationship between the Muslim Brotherhood and the Combatant Vanguard of the 1970s and 1980s in Syria. I shall post upon return from Michigan later this week. There is more evidence of links between the two organ…
Posted on March 5, 2012 by As'ad
Israeli puppet, Salim Joubran
Let me say this about any Arab who serves the Israeli state: any humiliation and indignity that befalls him is deserved. I relish the humiliation of this judge in the racist high court of the racist high state.PS I like when the New York Times ad…
Posted on March 5, 2012 by As'ad
Aljazeera propaganda
A readers sent me this: ”More al-Jazeera garbage: Ahmad Zeidan (who you’ve posted about a while ago, so I think you’re already aware of his al-Jazeera position and his links to the Muslim Brotherhood) claims that Israeli surveilance drones are he…
Posted on March 5, 2012 by As'ad
Iran: like Saudi Arabia
Iran, like Saudi Arabia, regularly executes people. Iran, like Saudi Arabia, finds it easier to execute native Iranians than American and Europeans. If this man was from Bangladesh, he would be dead by now.
Posted on March 5, 2012 by As'ad
US is alarmed at Chinese military spending
“The total defense budget for 2012 would be increased to $106 billion from $95.6 billion last year, he said. The Obama administration has proposed $525.4 billion in defense spending for 2013, a cut of about $5 billion from 2012.” How dare they? H…
Posted on March 5, 2012 by As'ad
Silly New York Times
It is rather petty and silly when the New York Times covers rivals or enemies of the US. Look at this silly headline. I don’t even know that it means. You can say that about every election and every victory (by more than 60% –whether there…
Posted on March 5, 2012 by As'ad
…off to the University of Michigan
This is the event at the University of Michigan where I a speaking on Wednesday night.
Posted on March 5, 2012 by As'ad
Russia versus the US in the Middle East
“Now Russia is the great defender of the status quo.” Well, let us see. Russia supports the status quo in Syria, while the US supports the status quo in Morocco, Algeria, Egypt (under Mubarak), Tunisia (under Bin Ali), Jordan, Iraq, Saudi Arabia,…
Posted on March 5, 2012 by As'ad
Dumb Mossad propaganda
“”The evidence surrounding that bomb itself indicates a series of decisions by the terrorist team that is fundamentally inconsistent with an Iranian-Hezbollah revenge bombing. The preliminary forensic analysis ofthe bomb itself had estimated …
Posted on March 5, 2012 by As'ad
Fill in the blank
Look at this item from Aljazeera: as if they write the sentence and then fill in the blank with a number of casualty later. ”Syria At least Syrian civilians have been killed by government forces on Friday.” (thanks Murad)
Posted on March 5, 2012 by As'ad
Saudi military to the rescue
“Saudi Arabia has never fought a war. In fact, as the embarrassing flight from Al Khafji well ahead of a badly battered Iraqi brigade demonstrated, the Saudi army is not capable of managing even a scrimmage. However, the government has been engaged in …
Posted on March 5, 2012 by As'ad
PR for Bahrain royal repression
“Earlier this month, a group of three young Bahrainis arrived in Washington to talk about reform in the small Persian Gulf nation, which has been rocked by Arab Spring protests for the last year. The delegation, including an NGO worker and a tech entre…
Posted on March 5, 2012 by As'ad
Russian election
Syrian regime is dealing with the Russian election as if the winner is from the Asad family.
Posted on March 5, 2012 by As'ad
The last refuge of Arab dictators
I notice that when Arab dictators are falling, they resort to an increase in anti-Jewish propaganda in their media. I can observe that in Syrian regime media. And in Syrian media, you even hear of Masonic plot. One of the funniest ana…
Posted on March 5, 2012 by As'ad
Obama’s security priority
Look at this sequence in Obama’s speech: ”For the sake of Israel’s security, America’s security, and the peace and security of the world,” Can you imagine the uproar if he were to put any other’s country security ahead of that of the US…
Posted on March 5, 2012 by As'ad