Archive for April 5, 2012
Aryeh Neier: War crime court for Israel?
It is cute that Aryeh Neier is moved by the plight of the Syrian people. No, it is very cute. But has he not been moved by decades of Israeli war crimes and massacres of Arabs? Has he called for the formation of a special tribunal for…
Posted on April 5, 2012 by As'ad
An example of language deficiency
“The state-run Syrian Arab News Agency framed its coverage of Mr. Annan’s cease-fire plan in starkly different terms…” So Anne Barnard does not know Arabic so her coverage of Syrian media is confined to SANA’s English language website. &n…
Posted on April 5, 2012 by As'ad
Instant books on Arab uprisings
I like James Gelvin’s The Arab Uprising: What Everyone Needs to Know published by Oxford University Press. It is probably the best that I have seen on the increasingly popular topic. It lacks more focus on Palestine and more treatment of cu…
Posted on April 5, 2012 by As'ad
From Jadaliyya: on Saudi Arabia
“Acts of protest have not been limited to the government ministries. Employees from different departments of such larger-than-life companies as Saudi Airlines and the Saudi Telecom Company (STC) have gone on strike for days, at times weeks, due to wide…
Posted on April 5, 2012 by As'ad
Can you imagine the headlines of these were Arabs?
“Eight Israelis were arrested in Colombia on suspicion of drug trafficking, money laundering and exploitation of minors, the country’s chief prosecutor told local media outlets on Tuesday. The suspects, who were described in the reports as “forme…
Posted on April 5, 2012 by As'ad
Nabil Rajab
Dimitri sent met this: ”I thought you and the followers of your blog might be interested in this BBC Hardtalk interview with Nabeel Rajab (below). Perhaps you have already seen it? The interviewer, Johnathan Sackur, continuously challenges Rajab …
Posted on April 5, 2012 by As'ad
Sectarianism in Bahrain
“In social media, Shi’ites and protesters are attacked as “monkeys”, “traitors” and “followers of Iran”, picking up a frequent charge that politicized Shi’ites are pawns of the Islamic Republic, a large non-Arab, Shi’ite Gulf neighbor. In the nor…
Posted on April 5, 2012 by As'ad
Deadlock in Syria
“Syria’s opposition — or parts of it — are incapable of offering any serious guarantees for the future. Some of their earlier supporters have even turned away from the opposition. The Kurds, who were among the first to protest (to get national id…
Posted on April 5, 2012 by As'ad
relatively peaceful
“Wednesday in Afghanistan’s relatively peaceful northern Faryab province, police said.”
Posted on April 5, 2012 by As'ad
Bahrain update
From AA chief Bahrain correspondent: “Khalid AlKhalifa, Minister of Foreign Affairs is inquiring whether going on a hunger strike is illegal under Islamic law.”
Posted on April 5, 2012 by As'ad
Israel: the threat to world peace and security
“German Nobel literature laureate Günter Grass labelled Israel a threat to “already fragile world peace” in a poem published on Wednesday that drew sharp rebukes at home and from Israel. In the poem, titled What Must be Said, published in German…
Posted on April 5, 2012 by As'ad
Media hype? Did I fall victim to it?
“Soon enough, almost every media organisation in the country was scrambling to put together its own report about the unexpected phenomenon, and the accompanying terror. The only problem is that little of it has been verified. According to t…
Posted on April 5, 2012 by As'ad
If you exterminate the Arabs, Israel is doing great
“The State of Israel is doing “not badly” compared with other countries, and, “if you deduct the Arabs and ultra-Orthodox from inequality indexes, we’re in great shape,” Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu told TheMarker on Wednesday in a special intervi…
Posted on April 5, 2012 by As'ad
When NATO liberates
“Rival militias from western Libya clashed Wednesday in the coastal town of Zuwara for a fourth consecutive day, with scores of people cut down in a hail of anti-aircraft and mortar fire that the country’s interim authorities appear powerless to cont…
Posted on April 5, 2012 by As'ad
Israel wants Syrian regime to stay
Based on the changes in US and NATO policies toward Syria, I now maintain that the Zionists have been alarmed at the various indications of Al-Qa`idah and Salafite presence in Syria, which Israel would not want close to its border in a chaotic scenario…
Posted on April 5, 2012 by As'ad
The Suffering of the Palestinian Child under the Israeli Occupation on the Palestinian Child Day
“Today, on the 5th of April, Al-Zaytouna Centre marks the Palestinian Child Day by reminding its readers of its book on The Suffering of the Palestinian Child under the Israeli Occupation. It is available for free download in both Arabic and English. A…
Posted on April 5, 2012 by As'ad
Dont you (dis)like it when the Zionist usurping entity pose as a guardian of minorities of the Middle East?
I mean this propaganda ploy would have worked if Israel is not hated by everyone in the Middle East, and if Israel has not killed as many Christians as it has in its history. This is a state that is sinking, fast and the signals are the dumbing d…
Posted on April 5, 2012 by As'ad
I never believe boycott claims by Arab governments
“Arab youth and sports ministers on Wednesday announced their boycott of sports apparel manufacturer Adidas over the company’s sponsorship of last month’s Jerusalem marathon. ”All companies that have sponsored the marathon of Jerusalem, including…
Posted on April 5, 2012 by As'ad
Statfor documents
They are so dumb that I have not posted much from them. Those who wrote those reports are quite clueless. Not worth your time. I strongly urged the folks at Al-Akhbar to ignore them.
Posted on April 5, 2012 by As'ad
Stretching one’s tongue in Jordan
You know that there is a law in Jordan against “extending one’s tongue” which refers to any offense or insult against members of the royal family. Al-Quds Al-`Arabir reports that this law will now apply to anyone who calls for the overthrow of th…
Posted on April 5, 2012 by As'ad