Archive for September 15, 2012
This is just dandy: US and Israel discuss the articles of the Tunisian consitution
“A similar pattern emerged as to Israeli efforts to prevent a clause being added to the new Tunisian constitution outlawing normalization or contacts with Israel. The Foreign Ministry asked the United States to intervene, but was not satisfied by th…
Posted on September 15, 2012 by As'ad
That film
I finally watched those 13 minutes of that film. It is so dumb that any protest against it will seem as dumb. Something so trashy is best ignored. The people behind it intended to upset and provoke Muslims, and the Salafite protesters…
Posted on September 15, 2012 by As'ad
what happens if gun store owoners and workers in the US look at news in the Middle East
From a source who does not want to be identified:”Thought this was funny and don’t have your email.. I work in a family owned gun store and often look at middle east news on our internet here. I usually check your blog, naharnet, and almanar. Accordi…
Posted on September 15, 2012 by As'ad
cursing Israeli terrorist soldier
“A young Palestinian from Hebron was held in Israeli jail for a month without any grounds, after a soldier wrongly believed he cursed him, an Israeli military judge ruled this week. Israeli rights group B’Tselem said Abd al-Aziz Fakhouri was re…
Posted on September 15, 2012 by As'ad
another update on war crimes in Syria
From Angry Arab’s correspondent in Syria:”It became clear that, in terms of criminality and hostility, the Syrian regime and its armed opposition are two sides of the same coin. The difference between them resides in the physical capability of commi…
Posted on September 15, 2012 by As'ad
crimes of the Syrian regime
From Akram: “And here is a fresh testimony of war crimes committed by the Syrian regime.”
Posted on September 15, 2012 by As'ad
Libyan militants to aid Syrian militants: US celebrate
From Times of London on the 14th of Sep.:”"A Libyan ship carrying the largest consignment of weapons for Syria since the uprising began has docked in Turkey and most of its cargo is making its way to rebels on the front lines, The Times has learnt. …
Posted on September 15, 2012 by As'ad
Hariri papers said that Sa`d Hariri met with Saudi King in Morocco: the official picture
(thanks “Ibn Rushd”)
Posted on September 15, 2012 by As'ad
Chutzphah: UAE potentates celebreate democracy
“UAE: “The Federal National Council will take part in the global celebration of International Day for Democracy being held on Saturday.”
Posted on September 15, 2012 by As'ad
Thomas Friedman on Jeopardy
Chathan sent me this: “Today I saw an episode of Celebrity Jeopardy! where Thomas Friedman was a contestant along with Anderson Cooper. Alex Trebeck asked him before the second round about his experience in the Middle East and how he felt thing…
Posted on September 15, 2012 by As'ad
journalistic standards of the New York Times
The haughty attitude and tone of the New York Times notwithstanding, the paper is not that distinguishable from tabloidish press. Today, for example, there was a long article about topless pictures of a British princess, and another on the dange…
Posted on September 15, 2012 by As'ad
Ahmad Al-Khatib
I have been faulted for not writing enough praises. You want praises? Ahmad Al-Khatib, the Kuwaiti secular progressive politician, is one of the most admirable contemporary Arab personalities. This is a man who used to donate 90% of his sal…
Posted on September 15, 2012 by As'ad
Walid Jumblat
While waiting humiliatingly for an appointment with the Saudi king, Jumblat yesterday said that Israel was behind the film. He did not indicate whether his Israeli sources told him that.
Posted on September 15, 2012 by As'ad
Hizbullah and the protests
Hizbullah has been noticeably quiet about the protests against the notorious film. Iraqi Shi`ites have been very vocal while Hizbullah has remained quiet. Yet, Hizbullah announced yesterday that it is organizing a march against the film in …
Posted on September 15, 2012 by As'ad
Those Egyptian people: why are they not grateful to the US?
Has the US not armed funded the Sadat-Mubarak dictatorship for forty years? What do they want more than that? How dare they express ingratitude toward the US?
Posted on September 15, 2012 by As'ad
gratitude
“Given the history of the US in Egypt, both long-term and very recent, it takes an extraordinary degree of self-delusion and propaganda to depict Egyptian anger toward the US as “ironic” on the ground that it was the US who freed them and “allowed” …
Posted on September 15, 2012 by As'ad
Canadian cop
“”A disabled Toronto man is suing the province’s information and privacy commissioner in a last-ditch effort to obtain police surveillance video — footage he claims will show that an officer urinated in his jail cell and then “shook the remainin…
Posted on September 15, 2012 by As'ad
The US and freedom of the speech in the Arab world
Basim (number two, not to be confused with Basim who sent me the cartoon below, and who is a childhood friend) sent me this: “The opportunism of the Muslim Brotherhood aside, and the rogue, backward nature of the Salafists aside … who is the U…
Posted on September 15, 2012 by As'ad
Which Middle East?
““A Middle East without Christians, or with only a few Christians, would no longer be the Middle East,” Benedict said…” What would it be? Far East? Mid-West?
Posted on September 15, 2012 by As'ad
Revolutionary change in the Arab world
A comrade who does not want to be identified sent me this:”Is it not ironic that after al what happened the last decade that the flags of AQ have been hoisted on the embassies of the US across the Arab world?I have no doubt in my mind that the Arab w…
Posted on September 15, 2012 by As'ad