Archive for March 12, 2012
Debate about Israel in the US
Here is Jon Stewart on the subject. More courageous than mainstream US press. (thanks Amanda)
Posted on March 12, 2012 by As'ad
What happened in Homs
I don’t know what happened in Homs. Syrian regime and Free Syrian Army both lie about their murders. But I get the feeling that the Syrian regime may have committed a massacre there. Syrian TV kept yesterday posting a message that footage f…
Posted on March 12, 2012 by As'ad
Free Syrian Army kills 250 Shabbihah
So the Free Syrian Army admits (or brags about) killing 250 “Shabbihah” (goons of the regime). Now, many in the opposition refer to `Alawites as Shabbihah in order to justify killing them, as has happened in Homs. So do those people get reg…
Posted on March 12, 2012 by As'ad
Aljazeera exodus?
“Key staff from Al Jazeera’s Beirut Bureau have resigned citing “bias” in the channel’s stance on the conflict in Syria. Bureau Managing Director Hassan Shaaban reportedly quit last week, after his correspondent and producer had walked ou…
Posted on March 12, 2012 by As'ad
Nada Bakri on covering Syria for the New York Times
“But, you know, Syria was very interesting to cover, and it’s still very interesting to cover. It has been very hard to cover it, because you’re covering it by remote, and you’re relying on activists’ accounts, activists that you’ve never met…
Posted on March 12, 2012 by As'ad
UN estimates of dead in Syria
From the New York Times: ”adding to the United Nations estimate of some 7,500″. This is a common myth: US media now casually attribute the estimate of dead in Syria to the UN. The UN admitted that it does not have personnel to conduct…
Posted on March 12, 2012 by As'ad
The occupiers as victims: poor occupiers
“Coming after a period of deepening public outrage, spurred by the Koran burning by American personnel last month and an earlier video showing American Marines urinating on dead militants, the possibility of a violent reaction to the killings…
Posted on March 12, 2012 by As'ad
Warning from Saudi Arabia
Saudi Arabia warns against using the term “Persian Gulf”.
Posted on March 12, 2012 by As'ad
Arabs do cry: this is from Gaza
Posted on March 12, 2012 by As'ad
militants killed
Yesterday, the New York Times had an article about Israeli killing of Palestinians. It said that all those who killed were militant. Today, after news came out that a child (aged 12, shown above) and a 63-year old man were killed, there was no article:…
Posted on March 12, 2012 by As'ad
Liberation malfunction
Why the Afghans are so upset. I mean, sure their country is occupied, and the US manages to kill civilians monthly, and there was a video of US troops urinating on dead Afghans, and then the accidental incineration of the Qur’an copies, and now t…
Posted on March 12, 2012 by As'ad
7700 bombs and missiles
Now I know the figure. NATO dropped 7700 bombs and missiles on Libya. In 1991, of the tens of thousand of tons of bombs and missiles dropped on Iraq, more than 70% of them missed their target according to Navy figures cited in “Crusade” by …
Posted on March 12, 2012 by As'ad
The Party of Hashish smoker
An Egyptian submitted his candidacy for the Egyptian presidency as a candidate of the Party of Hashish smokers. He wants to legalize Hashish in Egypt. My father was a law student in Cairo University (it was then called Fuad I University) in the 1…
Posted on March 12, 2012 by As'ad
Your help is not needed
Syrian dissident intellectual, Subhi Hadidi, addresses Western Zionists and their fake support for the Syrian uprising: he says that their help is not sought and is not “to be thanked, again”.
Posted on March 12, 2012 by As'ad
MEMRI style propaganda
So MEMRI has a childish PR ploy: they wait for any opponent of Israel, preferably in Hizbullah or Hamas, to be extending his hand high, and they put out a special bulletin to say that they are Nazi-like. Here, for MEMRI: Israeli prime minister pe…
Posted on March 12, 2012 by As'ad
Money is starting to come to the Free Syrian Army
Free Syrian Army commander threatens more bombings and a source in Syrian National Council delivers the news of arrival of foreign money. Now that is what I call a Saudi-Qatari revolution.
Posted on March 12, 2012 by As'ad
Casual Israeli racism toward Iranians
“Dagan: The answer is yes. Not exactly our rationale, but I think that he is rational.Stahl: Do you think they’re rational enough that they are capable of backing down from this?Dagan: No doubt that the Iranian regime is maybe not exactly rational base…
Posted on March 12, 2012 by As'ad
Lies on US TV about Arab attitudes
“I mean, even in the Arab world, do you know what they call you? They call you Superman!” Who in the Arab world calls him “Superman”? Just who. I guess i follow Arab politics and media rather closely and I never once heard or read tha…
Posted on March 12, 2012 by As'ad
An Israeli terrorist is a vegetarian–just like Hitler
“His portrait is complex: he led a life of violence, but is a vegetarian.” What is complex about that. Hitler was a vegetarian who broke down once when he visited a slaughterhouse (in the Ukraine, I think).
Posted on March 12, 2012 by As'ad
An Israeli certified killer is introduced to American viewers
“Sitting in his apartment, we were surprised that the walls were covered with pictures that he himself had painted.Stahl: I see a lot of humanity in your paintings and I see paintings of Arabs.Dagan: I know it would sound anti-Semitic if I said some of…
Posted on March 12, 2012 by As'ad