Archive for April 25, 2012
Suspected
“In Damascus, an intelligence officer was shot dead in Barzeh, a northern suburb, according to a statement from the Syrian Observatory for Human Rights, based in Britain. The man was suspected of identifying local protesters for arrest.” Suspecte…
Posted on April 25, 2012 by As'ad
Neil MacFarquhar
“Three members of the Syrian security services used to suppress antigovernment dissent were killed in and around Damascus on Tuesday, according to the official media and activists”. Wait: let me get this straight. You are saying that Syrian offic…
Posted on April 25, 2012 by As'ad
Thomas Friedman found a cleric he likes
“Last Sunday, Egypt’s new Islamist-dominated Parliament demanded that the country’s senior Muslim cleric — the state-appointed grand mufti, Ali Gomaa — resign because he had visited East Jerusalem to pray in the Al Aqsa mosque, the third holies…
Posted on April 25, 2012 by As'ad
If those were Arab students it would be on the front pages of ALL US newspapers
“Several dozens of high school students watching a play portraying the gruelling hardships of life in Vilna’s Jewish Ghetto during World War II applauded and cheered the Nazis, during Holocaust Remembrance Day last week. During the play “Ghetto,”…
Posted on April 25, 2012 by As'ad
No wonder you fit within the Freedom House
““When the U.S. decides to just give away the military aid to Egypt without considering the consequences on us,” Okail told me, “it sends a message that the West and the U.S. don’t care about democracy and human rights. They just care about str…
Posted on April 25, 2012 by As'ad
Thomas Friedman reverses himself, AGAIN
“It also tells us that anyone who thinks that the Arab Spring proves that Arabs don’t care about the Israeli-Palestinian conflict anymore is fooling themselves.” Wait. You were the one who wrote for months that the Egyptian uprising has no fore…
Posted on April 25, 2012 by As'ad
The World Bank
Bu’ush in Nairobi sent me this. From the Daily Nation.
Posted on April 25, 2012 by As'ad
Thomas Friedman and the Egyptian justice system
Egypt is not yet a democracy and I am no democracy cultist by any means. But Thomas Friedman writes an article on the injustice system in Egypt but I never ever remember him writing about judicial injustice in Egypt during the long years of Mubar…
Posted on April 25, 2012 by As'ad
Paul Krugman explains his political coward
“Something I’ve been meaning to do — and still don’t have the time to do properly — is say something about Peter Beinart’s brave book The Crisis of Zionism. The truth is that like many liberal American Jews — and most American Je…
Posted on April 25, 2012 by As'ad
Bahrain Update
From Angry Arab chief Bahrain correspondent: ”I don’t think these three guys know how hilarious they sound. Here one of them says the following: “The crown prince and the prime minister are idols for us.” Yet then after, the other accuses t…
Posted on April 25, 2012 by As'ad
Fabrications by Syrian Activists
I have seen this fabrication video and the tire on fire many weeks ago, but no one bothered to report on it in the Western press because only one side in Syria is being covered. Austin sent me this: “Here’s something you’ll be interested in (and…
Posted on April 25, 2012 by As'ad
"Syrian activists": they embellish, after all
Let us face it: Dunya TV has been documenting the embellishment and fabrications of those folks for months but no Western media bothered to cover because Neil MacFarquhah and others in the Western media (who don’t know Arabic) insist that Syrian regime…
Posted on April 25, 2012 by As'ad
Ahmad Al-Jizawi
The Egyptian lawyer who was arrested in Saudi Arabia was not only an advocate for Egyptians who languish in jail in Saudi Arabia but was also an advocate against Israel and its occupation of Palestine. Yesterday, the Saudi government changed its …
Posted on April 25, 2012 by As'ad
Lebanese Communist Party on Syria
I was utterly displeased with the weak and mild statement that was put out by the Lebanese Communist Party in reaction to the arrest of Salamah Kilah. The statement said that Kilah was no “terrorist” as if the rest of the political prisoners in S…
Posted on April 25, 2012 by As'ad
How outrageous: how can Syrian regime engages what the US and its friends engage in
How dare they? How dare they. I mean, yes Al-Arabiyyah published what it said were private emails from members of the Syrian ruling elite, but Al-Arabiyyah is the news site of King Fahd’s brother-in-law, and King Fahd as is well known was a champ…
Posted on April 25, 2012 by As'ad
I now feel safe: no Hizbullah training camps in Detroit (or in Baltimore)
“Speaking at a security conference today in West Bloomfield held by the Jewish community, the head of counter-terrorism in Michigan for the FBI said that while there are “Hizballah…sympathizers here within in the United States,” the Lebanese milit…
Posted on April 25, 2012 by As'ad
PA’s police (non)state
“The Palestinian Authority began blocking access to websites which expressed criticism toward it, the Palestinian news agency Ma’an reported Wednesday. According to the report, the PA instructed its internet providers to block access to news websites t…
Posted on April 25, 2012 by As'ad
That German ship with Iranian weapons
Don sent me this: ”After the whole world reported on the German Ship that IS carrying Iranian (or were it Russian?) weapons for Syria, it was all a farce. No weapons were found at all and all papers were correct. The Atlantic Cruiser is …
Posted on April 25, 2012 by As'ad
Salamah Kilah
Editor-in-chief of Al-Akhbar, Ibrahim Al-Amin, criticizes the Syrian regime for arresting Marxist activist, Salamah Kilah. Here is Kilah’s last contribution for Al-Akhbar. In it, he maintains (rightly) that the US is not necessarily resolve…
Posted on April 25, 2012 by As'ad
Charbil Nahhas on Syria
The brilliant former Marxist Minister of Labor, Sharbil Nahhas, was on OTV yesterday. It was a dazzling performance: he subjected the Lebanese political system to thorough criticisms. He also explained how Lebanon was run during the years o…
Posted on April 25, 2012 by As'ad