Archive for August 22, 2012
Zionism is always racism
“Eilat parents: We don’t want Sudanese in our schools”.
Posted on August 22, 2012 by As'ad
spying on Muslims
“In more than six years of spying on Muslim neighborhoods, eavesdropping on conversations and cataloguing mosques, the New York Police Department’s secret Demographics Unit never generated a lead or triggered a terrorism investigation, the department…
Posted on August 22, 2012 by As'ad
Rudoren explains her qualificaitons
Brian sent me this: “Thought you might be interested in this correspondence with Rudoren. Four comments: 1. She writes that the illegality of the settlements is a matter of perspective, 2. She equates a flattering profile of a rabid settler with a f…
Posted on August 22, 2012 by As'ad
Israeli harassment of Africans in…Africa
“MPs have mounted pressure on the Government to have the Israel Embassy located in Nairobi’s Upper Hill area relocated.This follows complaints of inconveniences levelled to users of Bishops Road where the Embassy is located. A road block is mounted a…
Posted on August 22, 2012 by As'ad
Reporting on Syria: it can’t get worse
Comrade Laure sent me this: “”Mosaab Mohamed Saeed Al-Odaallah, a journalist working for the arts and culture section of the government newspaper Tishreen, was killed today by government soldiers after they entered his home in the southern…
Posted on August 22, 2012 by As'ad
Israeli racist 12th-graders
“Nearly 60 percent of Jewish 12th-graders in Israel support the deportation of African refugees and almost half think their children should also be deported, according to a survey that will be presented at this year’s Haifa Education Conference, schedu…
Posted on August 22, 2012 by As'ad
Hizbullah cash
By the way, no US newspaper that I know of published the response of the Lebanese-Canadian bank to the accusation by US Treasury of holding Hizbullah cash. Here, Muhammad reacts to the story:”I have some extended family who have been sending Amer…
Posted on August 22, 2012 by As'ad
Mr. Damien Cave: the new Middle East expert at the Times
Akram sent me this:”If you’re a Rolling Stones expert, you dare to say, in politics (medicine, fine arts or physics), the first thing that comes to your mind without any fear that you look like an idiot; after all, it’s not what you’re good at.In hi…
Posted on August 22, 2012 by As'ad
Update from Syria
Akram, Angry Arab correspondent in Syria, sent me this:”In a previous post, I tried to provide my own explanation of the the destructive tactics embraced by the Syrian regime and its armed opposition in the urban war that is taking place in Syria. H…
Posted on August 22, 2012 by As'ad
On Nial Ferguson
Rob sent me this: “Hey As`ad, Nothing to point to in this missive, just an observation. While I’m pleased that the Salon link you provided about Ferguson led me to the LRB piece by Pankaj Mishra on the odiousness and dishonesty of Ferguson, whi…
Posted on August 22, 2012 by As'ad
From Aljazeera.net: Free Syrian Army should ignore the human rights community
“Secondly, and more importantly, Free Syria must resist the temptations of the UN, the siren songs of the human rights community, and the diplomacy of those such as Kofi Annan. They desire only to stop the fighting, believing that the worst evil is war…
Posted on August 22, 2012 by As'ad
The Pro-Syrian regime camp
I wondered in Arabic on Twitter and I shall wonder on Twitter. Why isn’t there one honest member of the mumana`ah camp (the Iranian-Syrian-Hizbullah orbit) who can emerge and declare: Bashshar is the worst leader for Syria–even from the standpoint of …
Posted on August 22, 2012 by As'ad
Riyad Hijab
The former Syrian prime minister (the man who defected) said in a press conference that the Syrian regime controls only 30% of Syria. Several newspapers carried a story in which a seasoned Jordanian politician asked him in a meeting: if the regim…
Posted on August 22, 2012 by As'ad
Doctors without Borders
So Doctors without Borders set up shop to treat fighters of the Free Syrian Army. In all those years, when Israel was attacking Lebanon and Palestine, did Doctors without Border ever dared to set up shop to treat Hizbullah or Hamas or Fath (befor…
Posted on August 22, 2012 by As'ad
Meet Damien Cave
I have noticed that the New York Times has a new fellow covering Syria from Lebanon as of late. I have noticed that he is particularly ignorant of the subject that he is covering–more so than the other new members of the Middle East corresponden…
Posted on August 22, 2012 by As'ad
what you need to know about Iran, you can learn from the…Telegraph
“Mr Khamenei responded by issuing a directive to Qassem Suleimani, the Quds Force commander, to intensify attacks against the West and its allies around the world.” So the Iranian government at the highest levels only shares its top secret …
Posted on August 22, 2012 by As'ad