Archive for June 19, 2012

Mubarak dead?

Israeli TV reported his death before Egyptian TV.  I agree: he belongs to Israel more than he belongs to Egypt.  Good riddance.  

Posted on June 19, 2012 by As'ad

Israeli imposter

An Israeli impostor exposed by Arab cyber activists. (thanks Raed)

Posted on June 19, 2012 by As'ad

What Zionists want from Egypt: the New York Times summarizes

“The United States needs to work with Egypt to maintain the peace treaty and a stable border with Israel.”

Posted on June 19, 2012 by As'ad

Alice Walker

“”Alice Walker, author of “The Color Purple,” refused to authorize a Hebrew translation of her prize-winning work, citing what she called Israel’s “apartheid state.”  In a June 9 letter to Yediot Books, Walker said she would not allow …

Posted on June 19, 2012 by As'ad

New York Times on Israeli racism against blacks

“Then there are the ”harrowing tales of cruelty by Bedouin smugglers in Sinai,” and the “risk of being shot by Egyptian officers,” but for Israeli “soldiers who picked them up,” Kershner reports that the refugees were told by the Israe…

Posted on June 19, 2012 by As'ad

Prince Muqrin

Sources in Saudi Arabia tell me that the most important appointment that we are waiting for (naming the prince who will be ranked right after the crown prince) will come in days and will most likely go to Prince Muqrin.  Muqrin is a relatively you…

Posted on June 19, 2012 by As'ad

Nahr Al-Barid camp

I visited (the new) Nahr Al-Barid camp in 2010.  I gave a talk there and the folks were most welcoming. I heard accounts of the massacre from the survivors and displaced.  Deep down, I felt I never left the camp since.  

Posted on June 19, 2012 by As'ad

Nahr Al-Barid

“Working as a fixer in the summer of 2007, I spent most of my time shuttling between Beirut and northern Lebanon. I was fixing for many international news outlets covering the three-month-long war and severe violence in Nahr al-Bared Pal…

Posted on June 19, 2012 by As'ad

The Lebanese Army: a call for my trial

There is a public call for putting me on trial for my attacks on the Lebanese Army for its crimes against the Palestinian people in Lebanon.  This is a defeated and cowardly army that never registered any traces of heroism in defending Lebanese te…

Posted on June 19, 2012 by As'ad

Gypsies and the Holocaust

I am not a historian of the era, but maybe Peter Longerich’s Holocaust: the Nazi Persecution and Murder of the Jews is considered the definitive account–if there is one.  The recent edition also took into consideration the newly available materia…

Posted on June 19, 2012 by As'ad

Punctuality

So according to Neil MacFarquhar the quality which determines whether a man is a dictator or not is not measured by the number of executions or by repression but by whether he is punctual or not.  Thus, Prince Salman is benevolent because he is pu…

Posted on June 19, 2012 by As'ad