Archive for June 4, 2012
Muslim Brotherhood in Power
The Tunisian Ministry of Interior ruled that live ammunition can be used against protesters in certain cases.
Posted on June 4, 2012 by As'ad
Israeli terrorist tourism
In America, you can brag about your terrorism and about nuclear weapons if you are an Israeli.
Posted on June 4, 2012 by As'ad
White Man in Israel
Chathan sent me this: ”I noticed your post about Eli Yishai’s belief in Israel as a “white man’s land”. It would be worth pointing out the irony of his statements given he’s not exactly a “white man” himself (he’s a Jew of Arab North African or…
Posted on June 4, 2012 by As'ad
Being Sri Lankan in Lebanon
“”A Lebanese friend took her Sri Lankan friend to the hairdresser the other day (pause for the Lebanese readers to get their heads round that one). Not a big posh chain, just one of those small corner places. In fact she took her to five salons, and…
Posted on June 4, 2012 by As'ad
King PlayStation with guns
“Five ex-Blackwater executives, facing federal firearms charges in connection with a gift of weaponry to a Middle Eastern monarch, have come up with a new explanation for how it occurred:It was a CIA operation. In court papers filed last month in…
Posted on June 4, 2012 by As'ad
Qatar-versus-Lebanon
The Lebanese government wanted to ban spectators from the Qatar versus Lebanon soccer match in Beirut; it was afraid of expression of hostility to Qatar by the audience. But then it relented under public pressure. Yet, some audience members held …
Posted on June 4, 2012 by As'ad
Asad’s speech
A Syrian reader sent me this: ”The funny man is in public again, and this time, using his Secondary School logic, to lecture the parliamentarians (The Arabic Version contains too many platitudes that the reader won’t find in the revised Englis…
Posted on June 4, 2012 by As'ad
Qadri Jamil
Akram sent me this: ”This is a short report about a meeting between Qadri Jamil’s “National Front for Liberation and Change” with the ambassador of Russia in Damascus. A very large font was used to write the report (is it just an error from the…
Posted on June 4, 2012 by As'ad
When Neir MacFarquhar analyzes, wake up the children and release the pigs from the barn
“Using language reminiscent of the leaders of the Islamic Republic of Iran, Mr. Assad said his critics hated that idea that reform was moving ahead in Syria. “Holding the elections for the people’s assembly as scheduled slapped those who wanted Syr…
Posted on June 4, 2012 by As'ad
Israeli racism
“”A society personifying a social time bomb of robbery, violence, sodomy as well as assimilation alongside the destruction of the institute of marriage and the proper family unit – such a society must be separate and distant, and the sooner the be…
Posted on June 4, 2012 by As'ad
advocates of hate who are respected
“”In the speech, flagged by the website Loonwatch, Hirsi Ali noted that she herself appeared in Breivik’s 1,500-word manifesto (Breivik reprinted a European right-wing article saying Hirsi Ali should win the Nobel Peace Prize). While she denounc…
Posted on June 4, 2012 by As'ad
This is repression that does not concern Western governments
If this was in Iran, it would be on the front page of US newspapers: ” A Kuwaiti man was sentenced to 10 years in prison on Monday after he was convicted of endangering state security by insulting the Prophet Mohammad and the Sunni Muslim ru…
Posted on June 4, 2012 by As'ad
All what you have done to our people is registered in notebooks
“An army probe into two separate shooting incidents involving settlers and Palestinians last month indicated that Israeli teens tied and beat a Palestinian who had been shot and wounded near the West Bank settlement of Yitzhar, a senior IDF officer …
Posted on June 4, 2012 by As'ad
Salafis heart Israel
“We are in the same front with Israel.” (thanks Haytham)
Posted on June 4, 2012 by As'ad
absurdity of propaganda on Syria
The other day, the anchor for al-Arabiyya (the news station of King Fahd’s brother-in-law) interviewed an inside source in Syria about the latest developments. He told her: the regime troops shot indiscriminately and intensively against a demonst…
Posted on June 4, 2012 by As'ad
Cowardly Jordanian opposion
The worst opposition in the Arab world, I have argued, is probably the Jordanian opposition. It trembles at the feet of the ruler. A few days ago, the opposition held a demonstration in response to inflation and chanted: The People want the…
Posted on June 4, 2012 by As'ad
The Shia taxi driver
“The Shia taxi driver who brought me home from the airport…” Do you really continue reading an article that begins like this? I personally don’t. Can’t. In Hariri and Saudi media, token Shi`ites who are willing to vomit stere…
Posted on June 4, 2012 by As'ad
Human Rights Watch
I read this report by Human Rights Watch. I noted (to one of its directors) those points:1) Human Rights Watch is exhibiting a missionary zeal on Syria that we never EVER witnessed about Palestine.2) HRW did not notice the ship of arms to Syrian …
Posted on June 4, 2012 by As'ad
Zionists for the Asad regime: the case of Henry Kissinger
I told folks on Twitter yesterday that this sentence in the long article by Henry Kissinger sums up the Zionist argument in favor of the preservation of the regime: ”The collapse of the state may turn its territory into a base for terrorism or ar…
Posted on June 4, 2012 by As'ad
local medics
More on the Syrian Observatory and its methods of documentation.
Posted on June 4, 2012 by As'ad