Archive for April 29, 2012
Using Somali refugees?
“Reports were released of Iran and Saudi Arabia both accusing each other of recruiting and training Somali refugees in Yemen as fighters, Radio Garowe reports. An Iranian news agency FNA said last week that 1,300 Somali refugees were transf…
Posted on April 29, 2012 by As'ad
House of Saud propaganda
Here is a funny one: ”Egyptians have a perceived notion that they once had a vital role in the political say of the Arab and Middle East’s affairs” . Perceived? The entire era of Nasser was a figment of our imagination, and in reali…
Posted on April 29, 2012 by As'ad
Brought to you by the Fifth Fleet
“Bahrain’s police are beating and torturing detainees, including minors, despite public commitments to end torture and police impunity, Human Rights Watch said today following a five day visit to the country. While in Bahrain, from April 15 to …
Posted on April 29, 2012 by As'ad
Egyptian-Israeli gas deal
Of course, Zionist propagandists want you to believe that the cancellation of the Egyptian-Israeli gas deal was due to commercial reasons. This was the line that was peddled in the Israeli press (and its echo chambers in the US media). But …
Posted on April 29, 2012 by As'ad
Blackmailing the Arab people
Whenever Saudi rule comes under attack from Arabs, Saudi royal family threatens to expel the Arab citizens of this country or that country. Saudi Arabia has now stopped issuing visas to Egyptians.
Posted on April 29, 2012 by As'ad
Qadhdhafi-Sarkozy
“”A document signed by a senior figure in Libya in 2006 and recently obtained by Mediapart states that the regime approved a payment of 50 million euros to back Sarkozy’s campaign, following a meeting with one of his most trusted politica allies. The e…
Posted on April 29, 2012 by As'ad
Egypt under Nasser
No one can argue with me that arts and literature in Egypt were at their best and were most rich during the years of Nasser. It is a fact. Nasser’s era gave us the best of Egyptian literature and film, while Mubarak era gave us Muhammad Hun…
Posted on April 29, 2012 by As'ad
Arab oil and gas money
“While Sheikh Mansour’s spending may be the biggest and boldest move into UK football by a Gulf investor, it is far from the only one. Barcelona’s long history of eschewing shirt sponsorship came to an end in 2011, when Qatar Foundation m…
Posted on April 29, 2012 by As'ad
Barenboim: take your piano and…
Qatari government disinvited Daniel Barenboim and his normalization choir from Qatar. The cancellation (see the file about the issue and against Barenboim in Al-Akhbar) came due: 1) the efforts of Qatari youth opposed to normalization with Israel…
Posted on April 29, 2012 by As'ad
Israeli lies
Notice that as far as the Western press is concerned, only Israelis are permitted to accuse the Israeli government of lying: ”"They are misleading the public on the Iran issue. They tell the public that if Israel acts, Iran won’t have a nuclear b…
Posted on April 29, 2012 by As'ad
"The Road to Jerusalem through Tahrir Square: Anti-Zionism and Palestine in the 2011 Egyptian Revolution"
Comrade Reem writes: ”The popular commitment to Palestine and against Israel in Egypt is powerful, because it is based not only on a sense of justice and humanitarianism but also on an emotive sense of shared identity and fraternity in the strugg…
Posted on April 29, 2012 by As'ad
Developments in Syria
Today, New York Times correspondents skyped with with two Syrians whose names was supplied by the Syrian Muslim Brotherhood, through secular members of the Syrian National Council, through Hariri press office in Lebanon.
Posted on April 29, 2012 by As'ad
Syrian National Council
Sources inside the Syrian National Council reveal to me that secular members inside the leadership (all the council is ostensibly “leadership”) are increasingly angry with “the dominance of the Muslim Brotherhood, their funding, and their relations”. &…
Posted on April 29, 2012 by As'ad
This just in: Thomas Friedman confirms that Egyptian uprising has "no foreign policy goals"
“Outside the Cairo embassy earlier this week, protesters chanted, “Down, down with Al-Saud!” referring to the Saudi royal family and “Screw you, your majesty!” in reference to the aging Saudi monarch. The demonstrators called for the expulsion of…
Posted on April 29, 2012 by As'ad
Conflicting reports?
“There were conflicting accounts about the reason for his arrest. The human rights group said he had previously been sentenced in absentia to a year in prison and a public flogging on charges of insulting the Saudi king.Saudi officials said he was arre…
Posted on April 29, 2012 by As'ad
CBS News
I can’t believe that some Arabs and non-Arabs in the pro-Palestinian community are circulating petitions to support CBS News. This is a network with a long history of services to Zionism and even Bob Simon himself is responsible for really lousy …
Posted on April 29, 2012 by As'ad
Randa Takieddine
Randa Takieddine is your typical Lebanese journalist in Saudi media. She has no talents whatsoever and her command of Arabic after years of working as a journalist remains extremely weak. Ms. Takieddine is a propagandist for the Hariri crow…
Posted on April 29, 2012 by As'ad