Archive for the ‘Hariri’ Category
This almost triggered sectarian conflict in Biqa` as Hariri supporters rushed to accuse Shi`ites of kidnapping him
“On late Thursday night, security forces located “the lost imam,” as Majzoub has been dubbed by some media outlets, at his friend’s house in a neighboring village in good health and sporting a different look. They found a clean-shaven Majzoub sitt…
Posted by As'ad at 8:12 AM 01/30/10
Letter to an Ethiopian
Comrade Ibrahim Amin writes a letter to an Ethiopian (I disagree with his desire to hug Sa`d Hariri)
Posted by As'ad at 6:12 AM 01/27/10
J`accuse
I argue that Israel’s propaganda is now officially (not accidentally) placed in Hariri and Saudi media in Lebanon. I accuse that there is an official Saudi-Israeli agreement to coordinate media and propaganda strategies. Look at this sample from NowH…
Posted by As'ad at 6:39 AM 01/25/10
War criminals are popular street names in Lebanon
Lebanon has the worst names for its streets. There is a clear preference for colonial administrators, racist Europeans, and Lebanese war criminals. A street was named after Elie Hubayqah yesterday. The man was a puppet of Israel in Bashir Gemayyel’s…
Posted by As'ad at 6:31 AM 01/25/10
To Lebanon and back
I have not been in Lebanon for more than 3 years. I was there last days before the Israeli attack on Lebanon. I remember meeting with someone you all know days before the war and commenting: that I smell an Israeli conspiracy the likes of which I have …
Posted by As'ad at 6:16 AM 01/22/10
Ecole Val Pere Jacques
AL sent me this from Lebanon (I cite with her permission): ” So this is to further comment on Layal’s note on Ecole Val Pere Jacques. When you mentioned that in your talk, I so wanted to share this very experience. I can’t recall who’s Layal, especi…
Posted by As'ad at 9:18 AM 01/21/10
Orange juice and US policies
A Western graduate student of the Middle East sent me this from Lebanon (I cite with his/her permission): “Another interesting event was a cocktail reception they held for our group with US Embassy officials in attendance. A colleague of mine and I …
Posted by As'ad at 8:34 AM 01/21/10
Hariri propaganda
The most vulgar of all Hariri propagandists attacks my recent article in Al-Akhbar. As usual, he insists that my ideological background is with the Syrian Social National Party.
Posted by As'ad at 9:26 PM 01/17/10
Val Pere Jacques School hearts Yitzhak Rabin
Layal sent me this message (I cite with her permission): ” Dear As`ad, أهلا بك في مسخ الوطن The conference was absolutely great, i’s dotted and t’s crossed. Thank You Doctor. You mentioned Yitzhak Rabin in your talk and asked the crowd …
Posted by As'ad at 10:16 PM 01/15/10
When those two discuss Middle East affairs
“Christopher Hitchens: How many Iranian dissidents are really going to be nationalistically upset by an intervention that comes in and removes the Revolutionary Guards?Michael Totten: I don’t think very many, but I could be wrong.” This is as profound…
Posted by As'ad at 10:09 PM 01/13/10
King PlayStation admires Prime Minister X-Box
I loved the meeting between Mini-Hariri and King PlaySation of Jordan. The latter expressed admiration for the “capabilities” of Prime Minister X-Box. What Arab regimes: One king is obsessed with PlayStation while a prime minister is obsessed with X-…
Posted by As'ad at 10:22 PM 01/7/10
Definitions by the New York Times
“The Lebanese activist, who is campaigning for democracy and freedom from foreign interference in his country.” When will the New York Times does its homework–at least–on the Middle East? Activist? He used to run Saatchi and Saatch and did work for t…
Posted by As'ad at 9:51 PM 01/4/10
When Hariri media cover Iran
Amer sent me this from Lebanon (I cite with his permission): “Future news has been broadcasting non-stop documentaries on Iran and the opposition. The people they interviewed as representing the opposition were of three kinds: a small minority of re…
Posted by As'ad at 9:25 AM 12/29/09
What is not fit to print
The massive demonstration for `Ashurah in the southern suburbs of Beirut on a winter day was quite unprecedented. I don’t know of an official estimate of the crowd, but they were hundreds of thousands. Much smaller demonstrations in Iran or around th…
Posted by As'ad at 11:02 AM 12/27/09
A retired Lebanese general shows his racism
Elias Hanna will sound like an Arab nationalist when speaking to Al-Manar or NBN and he can sound pro-Hariri and pro-Phalanges in Saudi media. That is how principled he is. But look at this racism regarding the shooting at a bus of Syrian civilians: …
Posted by As'ad at 10:39 AM 12/26/09
More Lebanese lobyying in the US
This is by the Lebanon Renaissance Foundation. And David sent me more (I cite with his permission): ” The Lebanese Renaissance Foundation has paid DLA Piper over 1 million in lobbying fees over the last couple of years (making the foundation one of t…
Posted by As'ad at 10:45 AM 12/25/09
Arab leaders
I hate when Arab leaders think that if they are seen driving their car before the cameras, it is a sign of their modesty and reformist tendencies. It is spreading now: Saddam, King Husayn, Bashshar Al-Asad, Saud Al-Faysal, Rafiq Hariri, Jordanian King…
Posted by As'ad at 10:48 AM 12/23/09
NowHariri: Forever House of Saud (the case of Hazim Saghiyyah)
The propaganda services of Lebanese journalists are rather amusing, when you think about it. Hazim Saghiyyah (an ostensible liberal and a hard core Wahhabi in effect) was writing daily critiques of the Syrian regime UNTIL the Saudi King made up with t…
Posted by As'ad at 9:35 AM 12/21/09
Syrian civilians attacked in Lebanon
This bus was carrying Syrian civilians in Northern Lebanon (in Dayr `Ammar–a Hariri stronghold). It was sprayed by bullets and one Syrian civilian was killed. Can you imagine the uproar–at the international and UN levels–if this was reversed: if a…
Posted by As'ad at 9:23 AM 12/21/09
Mini-Hariri in Damascus
For close to five years, the man on the left has been accusing the man on the right of murdering his daddy. This picture was taken yesterday.
Posted by As'ad at 9:42 AM 12/20/09
Mini-Hariri in Damascus
So Mini-Hariri is spending the night in Damascus, as a guest of Bashshar Al-Asad. I heard that Bashshar has asked his former intelligence chief in Lebanon, Rustum Ghazalah, to read stories to mini-Hariri at bedtime.
Posted by As'ad at 10:53 AM 12/19/09
Explosive: flash
This is the latest from the Hariri tribunal, since readers keep asking me for updates. Hariri tribunal has officially confirmed that Rafiq Hariri is officially dead.
Posted by As'ad at 10:39 AM 12/19/09
Mini-Hariri in Damascus
What do you say about this man? I mean, I know that he is a clueless, incompetent, bumbling, unqualified, ill-informed, ignorant, semi-illiterate, and wittyless buffoon, but this is a man who for years accused Bashshar Al-Asad and his regime of master…
Posted by As'ad at 9:05 AM 12/19/09
Flash
Mini-Hariri (the man of grand eloquence) met with Hugo Chavez in Denmark.
Posted by As'ad at 9:07 AM 12/16/09
Naharnet and NowHariri
Notice that Naharnet and NowHariri peddles and highlight daily Israeli propaganda stories.
Posted by As'ad at 11:27 AM 12/14/09
More than 400,000 have seen it
This is unprecedented for an Arabic clip on youtube. More than 400,000 have seen the satirical video mocking mini-Hariri’s reading (lack of) skills.
Posted by As'ad at 9:58 AM 12/13/09
Right-wing (Zionist) arguments with Leftist footnotes: the case of Ken Seigneurie
There is a downside to reading as a vocation; you get to read lousy books and articles. From some you may learn (I read much of the Zionist literature in order to understand the enemy), and from other you learn not. Such is the case of an article by …
Posted by As'ad at 10:53 AM 12/12/09
Hit on Youtube: Mini-Hariri
This is a huge hit on Youtube in Lebanon now. Mini-Hariri can’t read. (thanks Lara and As`ad–not me. They were the first to send it to me).
Posted by As'ad at 7:51 AM 12/10/09
When mini-Hariri reads
Comrade Khalid on the reading abilities of mini-Hariri.
Posted by As'ad at 7:31 AM 12/9/09
Lebanon’s Minister of Interior: Ziyad Barud
I am not a fan of the last parliamentary election in Lebanon. It may have been the most corrupt election in Lebanese history, in terms of buying of votes and rigging voters’s registration, or moving them to other districts to achieve sectarian prepond…
Posted by As'ad at 7:53 AM 12/8/09
Traffic first
Why mini-Hariri tackles traffic, by comrade Khalid.
Posted by As'ad at 7:57 AM 12/7/09
Lebanese expert of the US
Riyad Tabbarah: is Hariri family’s favorite expert on the US. In fact, Rafiq Hariri hired him to serve as Lebanon’s ambassador in the US for years. He was interviewed on LBC-TV yesterday to explain the inner working of Congress. He began by explaini…
Posted by As'ad at 7:25 AM 12/7/09
Don’t quote this man on the Palestinians in Lebanon please
“”The situation in the camps is beyond what is humanly acceptable,” said Khalil Mekkawi, former head of the Lebanese Palestinian Dialogue Committee that was set up in 2005 to improve living conditions for the refugees. “There is no hope whatsoever f…
Posted by As'ad at 9:58 AM 12/6/09
Hariri tribunal
I was asked for an udpate on the Hariri tribunal. Oh, yeah. I forgot. Here is an update: blah and zzzzzzzzzzzzzz.
Posted by As'ad at 7:43 AM 11/30/09
Hariri Media from the inside
A former reporter for Hariri Future TV sent me this (she/he does not want to be identified): “Election times were the worst when Hani Hammoud [chief media and political adviser to mini-Hariri] would come to the TV during those times to lecture us on h…
Posted by As'ad at 9:18 AM 11/28/09
Kurds in Syria
“This 63-page report documents the Syrian authorities’ efforts to ban and disperse gatherings calling for Kurdish minority rights or celebrating Kurdish culture, as well as the detention of leading Kurdish political activists and their ill-treatment…
Posted by As'ad at 8:49 AM 11/28/09
“Pro-Western” Hariri Movement
These are the fruits of the Hariri Movement in Lebanon. This picture was taken by anonymous this Thursday in Hamra Street in Beirut. It says: “Al-Fatihah on the souls of the martyrs of Muslims declares [sic] the Youth of Vengeance and Revenge in con…
Posted by As'ad at 8:44 AM 11/28/09
Wahhabiyyah parading as liberalism: the case of the Hariri Movement
I have noted to you before, that after Sep. 11, Wahhabiyah propaganda has found a new way to parade before Western audiences. So-called Arab liberals who work as propagandists in Saudi media are part and parcel of this trick. Yet, Saudi media continu…
Posted by As'ad at 9:13 AM 11/27/09
NowHariri in Foreign Policy
Look at this lousy ill-informed article that mostly is based on rumors and prejudices of Saudi-financed media who only see Shi`ites through the prism of Taqiyyah and Mut`ah marriage. What Foreign Policy does not tell you is that this writer works for …
Posted by As'ad at 9:56 AM 11/26/09
NowHariri: Now Racist
The picture in this article has been changed. The original article is displayed above. (Thanks Matthew)
Posted by As'ad at 8:04 AM 11/24/09
Hariri Inc hearts right-wing Zionist Americal journalists
“My host on the trip was New Opinion Group, a Lebanese NGO. Created in the wake of the March 2005 Cedar Revolution, it is dedicated to “achieving a nonsectarian, democratic, and sovereign Lebanon.” The small group of American journalists, policy analys…
Posted by As'ad at 7:08 AM 11/23/09
Andrew Lee Butters of Time magazine: he hearts the Bush Doctrine
I don’t read Time and Newsweek, except forced to do so at the Dentist’s office, although between People magazine and Time and Newsweek I prefer the former. I tell my students of you start reading the Economist magazine you won’t be able to read Time o…
Posted by As'ad at 10:57 AM 11/12/09
The new Lebanese cabinet
So there is a new Lebanese cabinet. Nothing new. Lebanon was and will be always on the verge of civil war, even if it does not descend into civil war. The cabinet will not solve a thing. A few remarks. The former leftists in the cabinet: Hariri Mi…
Posted by As'ad at 10:15 AM 11/10/09
He wants his daddy
Look at him. He is 40 years old and wants you to know that, five years after the assassination of Rafiq Hariri, he is still crying over the death of his lousy father. He lost his daddy and he wants you to know how sad he is very sad. The picture was…
Posted by As'ad at 10:08 AM 11/10/09
Robert Worth summarizes the Lebanese conflict
“with one camp defining itself through resistance to Israel and the West, and the other aspiring to a more commercial and cosmopolitan role.” So the `Awni movement represents resistance to the West, while the Salafi movements that are part of the Hari…
Posted by As'ad at 9:52 AM 11/10/09
