Archive for March 24, 2012
Western lovers of the Syrian people
Those in the West (in government, media, and academia) who are posing as lovers of the Syrian people: how come your love for the Syrian people did not show before this year? I mean, the Syrian people have been suffering from this dictatorship since 197…
Posted on March 24, 2012 by As'ad
Egyptian presidential candidate, Hazim Abu Isma`il
An Egyptian jurist sent me this: ”Here’s more from Egyptian presidential candidate Hazem AbuIsmail opining on nutmeg in his days as a televangelist. It is a very weird phenomenon that the Salafi luminaries (if one can combine these two oxymoroni…
Posted on March 24, 2012 by As'ad
(Warning: not true story, apparently) "I do not recognise you. I am a 16-year-old child and you are unjustly trying me. You are a Mafia gang and I do not recognise your state.”
“According to the lawyers of the Palestinian Prisoners Society, Salibi was asked to stand up by the judge and the prosecution lawyer began to read the indictment list, but the child interrupted the prosecutor saying: “I do not recognise you. I am a 16-…
Posted on March 24, 2012 by As'ad
And Israel wants to attack Iran?
Ahmet sent it to me with the comment (paraphrasing): and Israel wants to attack Iran? Ha. ”In actual fact, the latest go-around was started by an Israeli air strike that killed the head of the Palestinian Resistance Committees and one of his f…
Posted on March 24, 2012 by As'ad
Zionism hooliganism is Zionism defined
“Video has emerged from a shocking mob attack by hundreds of Israeli football fans on Arab workers and shoppers at the Malha Mall in western Jerusalem. The video shows a large crowd, some wearing the colors of the Jerusalem Beitar football team, …
Posted on March 24, 2012 by As'ad
`Abdur-Rahim Murad and I
The other day, I watched this pro-Syrian regime Lebanese politician (a former minister and a prime ministerial aspirant), Abdur-Rahim Murad, on New TV. He was of course defending the regime and attacking its opponents. So I wrote on Faceboo…
Posted on March 24, 2012 by As'ad
Exposing Robert Fisk’s fibs: I just hate that Zionists are doing for their own ulterior motives
Hugh Pope, a former Independent colleague of Fisk’s, recently published a memoir of his three decades of reporting in the Middle East, Dining with al Qaeda. When they were both covering the Iraqi Kurd refugee crisis in 1991, he writes, Fisk reported …
Posted on March 24, 2012 by As'ad
I know that Saudi Arabia serves US/Israeli interests but come on
So Saudi Arabia is head of Iran (as lousy as Iran is) in economic opportunities for women? By what criteria? (thanks Ziad)
Posted on March 24, 2012 by As'ad
Israel is upset
“As one Israeli counterterrorism official once remarked to me over coffee and a bagel, things would be easier if Hezbollah were crazy like Al-Qaeda—it would make his job significantly less stressful. “They’re not,” he’d sighed. “They’re j…
Posted on March 24, 2012 by As'ad
Sanogo
“Africable TV airs a pre-recorded interview with Capt. Amadou Sanogo, leader of the CNRDR. The journalist asks him, what assurance can you offer that you won’t organize fraudulent elections and cling to power yourself? Sanogo responds by saying he is…
Posted on March 24, 2012 by As'ad
Yet, the New York Times (in another praise of Mossad) claimed that Israel was behind it
““I think it’s pretty clear that the United States government did the Stuxnet attack,” he said calmly.This is a fairly astonishing statement from someone in his position.”
Posted on March 24, 2012 by As'ad
The US and Mali coup
“U.S. Army Master Sergeant Robert Price stands with Malian soldiers he helped train as he is congratulated by Malian Minister of Defense Natie Pleah during a Counter Terrorism Train and Equip (CTTE) transfer of equipment ceremony in Bamako, October 20,…
Posted on March 24, 2012 by As'ad
Syrian refugees
It is good that there is (crocodile) concerns for the 30,000 (by UN count) Syrian refugees. But the millions–OK, hundreds of thousands–of refugees caused by US invasion of Iraq triggered no such concerns at all.
Posted on March 24, 2012 by As'ad
propaganda broadcasters
Do people notice that those who read Syrian reports in Saudi and Qatari oil and gas media no more adhere to the old professional standards of Aljazeera and now resort to the propaganda voices and tone of Saddam regime TV?
Posted on March 24, 2012 by As'ad
Tens and hundreds of protesters make the news if they are against a regime not aligned with the US
“Activists in the capital, Damascus, and its suburbs said small but persistent protests by hundreds of demonstrators erupted after Friday Prayer despite the deployment of security forces.” Notice the phrase: “small but persistent”. So it ca…
Posted on March 24, 2012 by As'ad
Karen Koning AbuZayd
Karen Koning AbuZayd deserves an award for political cowardice. She has been most reserved and careful in talking about Israeli repression and savagery and yet she has suddenly loosened her tongue when talking about Syrian repression. She r…
Posted on March 24, 2012 by As'ad
You can’t accuse the US government of not caring about the Egyptian people
“An intense debate within the Obama administration over resuming military assistance to Egypt, which in the end was approved Friday by Secretary of State Hillary Rodham Clinton, turned in part on a question that had nothing to do with democratic p…
Posted on March 24, 2012 by As'ad
Muslim Brotherhood
The Muslim Brotherhood served as tools of US/Israeli policies for much of the Cold War. It seems that they are now reviving their role as puppets of Israeli policies.
Posted on March 24, 2012 by As'ad
psst
psst. Obama does not want you to notice that he is black so please don’t say anything. Thanks.
Posted on March 24, 2012 by As'ad
Vulgar and crude propaganda
This dude, Ali Shu`aybi I think his name is, is one of the worst features of Syrian regime TV. Here, he flashes a flash drive on which–he claims–there is a video of the wife of an opposition figure having sex with a CIA man–kid you not. But he…
Posted on March 24, 2012 by As'ad