Archive for June 12, 2012
`Abdul-Basit Sida: a clarification
Of course, there is no problem in doing any job for a living. Hell, I have always fantasized about working in a Middle East bakery and making manaqish. The problem is with truthfulness: people should not embellish their resume and make…
Posted on June 12, 2012 by As'ad
kidnapping an 11-year `Alawite child in Wadi Khalid
The Hariri March 14 gangs who kidnapped `Alawites at random the other day (after the Syrian regime kidnapped a man from the area) also kidnapped an 11 year old child. I saw him on TV: he looked so terrified. Human Rights Watch learned about…
Posted on June 12, 2012 by As'ad
France 24 report
Lucy Fielder removed her name from the lousy report on Al-Mayadin. Of course, the clip still have her reading it, but that is her business, I guess.
Posted on June 12, 2012 by As'ad
Comrade Bassam on the left and Syria
“Finally, I tried to argue this point on principle. But it is also important to note the attempts of the Saudi-US alliance, strongly supported by Israel and Qatar, to beat down not only Hizballah, but the notion of resistance to the same imperial and h…
Posted on June 12, 2012 by As'ad
If Arabs were behind this, it would have been on the front page of the NYT
“Vandals spray-painted graffiti overnight Monday on the walls of Yad Vashem, Israel’s official Holocaust memorial, with messages attacking Zionism and blaming Zionists for the Holocaust. Nearly a dozen messages were scrawled around the Warsaw Ghetto …
Posted on June 12, 2012 by As'ad
A foreign maid dead on the ground in Lebanon
From here. (thanks Alex)
Posted on June 12, 2012 by As'ad
using the children as propaganda fodder
Chathan sent me this: ”In what seems to be the latest effort to extract tears from the unsuspecting western public, the coverage is focusing on children Interesting how it only glosses over the fact that the FSA is equally culpable in this ho…
Posted on June 12, 2012 by As'ad
The embezzler on Fath corruption
“Yasser Arafat’s former financial adviser, who was recently found guilty of embezzlement and sentenced in absentia, has revealed that Fatah has a secret bank account in Jordan with a balance of $39 million.” But the crook, Salam, has bigger sec…
Posted on June 12, 2012 by As'ad
Bahrain’s Women Doctors Tell of Assault, Threats and Torture
““Either you cooperate and say whatever we want and we’ll treat you like a human, or you get stubborn and we beat you like a donkey.” These words were spoken to Dr Fatima Haji, a 32-year-old Bahraini doctor who was last year convicted of incit…
Posted on June 12, 2012 by As'ad
Repression in Iran
“The Iranian authorities must immediately overturn the death sentences of five members of Iran’s Ahwazi Arab minority who were tried unfairly and may face imminent public execution, Amnesty International said after the prisoners were moved to an unkn…
Posted on June 12, 2012 by As'ad
Meet the new Libya
“After Gaddafi, Libya splits into disparate militia zones”.
Posted on June 12, 2012 by As'ad
This from the Zionist usurping entity
“Illegal migrants ‘treated like animals’”
Posted on June 12, 2012 by As'ad
Wait: I thought that only advocates of the Syrian regime say that?? I am confused now
“Al-Qaida affiliates operating in Syria, says William Hague”. (thanks Mohammad)
Posted on June 12, 2012 by As'ad
migrant workers in Qatar
“A report by Human Rights Watch has raised concerns about the treatment of migrant construction workers in the Gulf state of Qatar.”
Posted on June 12, 2012 by As'ad
Facing prison for treating Bahrain’s wounded
“This week, I expect to hear if I will be going to prison for 15 years. The verdict on my appeal, as well as those of 19 other medics convicted in a sham Bahraini military trial last year, is due on Thursday. The Bahraini regime targeted us for trea…
Posted on June 12, 2012 by As'ad
sectarianism in Syria
Syrian dissident, Yasin Hajj Salih, admits that there are Sunni sectarians among the opposition but says that they will fail in making the conflict sectarian. OK.
Posted on June 12, 2012 by As'ad
France 24
“Ibn Rushd” sent me this: ”In 2007, Sarko appointed Christine Ockrent as director of France 24. She’s the wife of former foreign minister Kouchner, they’re very pro-Israel and he supported the Iraq War. Ockrent fired a lot of good journal…
Posted on June 12, 2012 by As'ad
Arabic tutor, `Abdul-Basit Sida on the need for compromise with the regime
“Abdulbaset Sieda really hope that President Bashar al-Assad to take to their senses and accept the true democratization, so that Syria do not have the inner conflicts and religious conflicts that could otherwise easily flare up.He cites a Syrian …
Posted on June 12, 2012 by As'ad
Zionist methods with the natives
“Israel stripped more than 100,000 residents of Gaza and some 140,000 residents of the West Bank of their residency rights during the 27 years between its conquest of the territories in 1967 and the establishment of the Palestinian Authority in 1994.” …
Posted on June 12, 2012 by As'ad
`Abdul-Basit Sida: professor of philosophy and Arabic?
Several people in Sweden confirmed to me what I had assumed: that `Abdul-Basit Sida is not–as the New York Times has identified him–a “professor of philosophy and Arabic” in Sweden. My informants tell me that he never taught philosophy. O…
Posted on June 12, 2012 by As'ad