The Angry Arab News Service

The real victim in the Syrian conflict is really the White Man: I read it in the New York Times

As'ad — Sun, 26 May 2013 02:02:00 +0000

"His wife, a jewelry designer, is from the Caucasus and lives in Nairobi; they have not seen each other in two months." Syrians are living in tents, many have lost loved ones, but this story of this guy moved the correspondent to tears.

Anne Barnard and the clashes in Tripoli

As'ad — Sun, 26 May 2013 01:55:00 +0000

There is no mystery at all about the triggers to the clashes of Tripoli. You can even tell by two factors: 1) the clashes ALWAYS occur when the Salafites of Tripoli are upset over one reason or another (and this week they were upset upon the news of the offensive against Qusayr). 2) `Alawites in Tripoli are a mere 5% of the population and they are surrounded from all sides, and it is just impossible that they would instigate a fight, especially that they have been evicted from Tripoli and their businesses all stolen and set on fire. But Anne Barnard does not note any of that: "Maj. Gen. Ashraf Rifi, a retired senior security official from Tripoli, said Hezbollah, through Mr. Eid, started the fight to keep Sunnis from flocking to Qusayr after it realized its hope of taking the city in 24 hours was “delusional.” She did not say the rest of the talk of Mr. Rifi, and did not say that he is a functionary of Hariri who started his career as a bodyguard for Rafiq Hariri, and who sits on the board of the Prince Nayif University for Security Studies. She made him sound like an neutral observer. She said that both sides in Tripoli blame the other, but only offered one side's account, without even mentioning that he represents one side. Of course, the dominant view in Lebanon is that when the news of the offensive reached Tripoli, the Salafite thugs there started doing what they always do when they are angry: they started shelling Jabal Muhsin. Even the official Hariri mouthpiece website reported that Tripoli was shelling Jabal Muhsin (see citation below). And the theory of Rifi is dumb: as if Tripoli is the only place that supplies Salafite fighters for Syrian armed movement.

""استمرار الاشتباكات والقذائف الصاروخية من باب التبانة باتجاه جبل محسن

And this is outrageous because the US would never ever do such a thing to Iran

As'ad — Sat, 25 May 2013 21:06:00 +0000

" American officials and corporate security experts examining a new wave of potentially destructive computer attacks striking American corporations, especially energy firms, say they have tracked the attacks back to Iran."

Sen. Kerry calls on Iran to emulate the electoral freedoms of Saudi Arabia

As'ad — Sat, 25 May 2013 21:00:00 +0000

" He said that the election would hardly be one that was free and fair and that it was not likely to represent the desire of the Iranian people for change."

It is resistance to Israel, Ms. Barnard

As'ad — Sat, 25 May 2013 20:40:00 +0000

" of opposition to Israel". This is even a distortion of Sulayman's own words. He said resistance. Were you afraid of offending Zionist readers?

Anne Barnard yet again justfies the killing of civilians by Fee Syrian Army

As'ad — Sat, 25 May 2013 20:34:00 +0000

" Syrian rebel shelling has already killed civilians in Hezbollah-controlled areas of the Bekaa Valley." What does Hizbullah-controlled mean? Those are areas that voluntarily support Amal and Hizbullah. Do I live in a Democrat-controlled area in Californian?

Hear ye, hear ye. Anne Barnard mentions Lebanese Sunni Salafites fighting in Syria–in passing naturlich

As'ad — Sat, 25 May 2013 20:28:00 +0000

" riling Lebanon’s Sunni militants, some of whom are fighting alongside rebels in Qusayr."

Where do they get this trash from?

As'ad — Sat, 25 May 2013 19:58:00 +0000

" Mr. Navasky spends a good deal of time discussing the work of the valiant cartoonists at work in Muslim countries, where satire can still lead to beatings, imprisonment or worse.". In fact, political cartoonists in Egypt and Lebanon have been celebrated for over a century and Bashshar Al-Asad felt the need to befriend Ali Farzat who only became vocally critical of the Asad dictatorship when Bashshar ended the friendship.

There is an Arabic proberb about this: "he hit me and he cried, and preempted me and complained"

As'ad — Sat, 25 May 2013 18:19:00 +0000

""Israeli Ambassador to the United Nations, Ron Prosor, filed a complaint to the Security Council against Syria after the Syrian Army opened fire, several days ago, at an Israeli military vehicle in the occupied Golan Heights. Prosor said that targeting the Israeli military vehicle is a "direct violation to the 1974 agreement that ended armed confrontation between Syria and Israel." ""

Israeli calculations in Syria

As'ad — Sat, 25 May 2013 18:14:00 +0000

""The model that Israel had been using, the predictions we had been making, were based on far more defections from the Assad regime, and more fighting prowess and organization from the rebels," said one Israeli military official, who spoke only on the condition of anonymity because of Israel's strict military censorship laws." "If Syria is going to fight, and if they are going to fight with deadly weapons, better they busy themselves fighting each other than fighting us.""