The Angry Arab News Service/وكالة أنباء العربي الغاضب

A source on politics, war, the Middle East, Arabic poetry, and art.

Tuesday, December 21, 2010

The racism of Roger Cohen: a new low for the New York Times on Arabs

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Just a few days ago I wrote that Roger Cohen is the least unreasonable among those who write on the Middle East in the New York Times. How w...

Faruq Qaddumi

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For a fee, Qaddumi is willing to accept Oslo, or to oppose it.  For a fee, he would be willing to accuse Abu Mazsen of killing Arafat, or to...

Between Abu Mazen and Dahlan i would choose a dead Abu Iyad

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"Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas is cracking down on one of his main political rivals, former security chief Mohammed Dahlan, ami...

All that you have done to our people is registered in notebooks

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"Despite recent moves by Israel to ease construction in the Gaza Strip, restrictions on building materials are hampering international...

Los Angeles Times

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Politics aside, the Los Angeles Times section on the Middle East on the web provides probably the best coverage of the Middle East of any US...

And now the Egyptian police is beating the Mossad

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" An Egyptian businessman and two Israelis have been ordered to appear in court to face espionage charges that include spying for Israe...

Palestinian refugees in Lebanon

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"Palestinian refugees in Lebanon are two times more likely to live in poverty than other Lebanese people, preliminary report findings...

Leadership

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Lebanon is on the brink of a civil war, and mini-Hariri (Lebanon's prime minister, believe it or not) flies to Saudi Arabia to attend th...

Wise words about the Middle East, at long last

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"Brazil's President Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva said on Monday that there will be no peace in the Middle East while the United State...

Those dangerous Muslims in our midst: Israel's dirty hands (Shoebat)

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Look who is lecturing to local police:  "Like Montijo, Walid Shoebat, a onetime Muslim who converted to Christianity, also lectures to...

the Oman-UAE crisis

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This story sheds light on the UAE intelligence network that penetrated deep into Oman's government structure.  (thanks anonymous)

American success stories in Iraq and Afghanistan

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"The Americans actually killed three times as many civilians during the surge as before, even if they also killed many more militiamen...

Neither Fath nor Hamas: the Palestinians deserve better

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" A Palestinian public opinion poll published Monday in the West Bank city of Ramallah found out that only a quarter of the Palestini...

Hardly human

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"'I didn't think of Iraqis as humans,' says U.S. soldier who raped 14-year-old girl before killing her and her family ....

Is that not nice? They are ensuring the safety of Yemenis

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" The C.I.A. has begun patrolling the skies above Yemen with armed drones... "

Drink, George. Drink

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" Although Bush is admirable for stopping, he probably was more fun when he drank. "  But then again, if with sober Bush we got al...

Saudi king very dead: Prince `Azzuz celebrates

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So Saudi Minister of Health yesterday "assured" the public that the health of Saudi king is good, which means that he is dead--ver...

Time's Person of the Year

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Of course, from a news perspective, Assange should have been chosen as the Time's Person of the Year--regardless of the value of that du...
Monday, December 20, 2010

They don't mind foreign occupation but don't you dare ban their alcohol

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Some of those protesting--not all of course--are writers who are servants of the occupation and the puppet regime but they can't stand a...

Unreported crimes by Israel

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"Since March 2010, 97 people have been shot in Gaza for collecting stones. This is one of the few ways a person can actually make mone...

Mapping sexual harassment in Egypt through SMS reporting

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This is a great service: Mapping sexual harassment in Egypt through SMS reporting (thanks Farah)

US diplomats collecting "bad news" about Cuban health care

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"NEWS: USINT is always looking for human interest stories and other news that shatters the myth of Cuban medical prowess, which has be...

Of course she is not a suspect: since when are oil princes suspects in Western countries?

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"The flat belongs to Princess Norah Bint Abdulaziz, a Saudi Arabian Princess, who is said to have known nothing about what was going o...

UAE-Oman crisis

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There has not been anything in the press about the serious crisis in the relations between Oman and UAE after Oman secret service discovered...

On the stupidity of Mossad (again, and again)

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"And he minces no words in stating baldly (through his sources) that Stuxnet has been a disaster both for the Mossad (he coyly refuses...

The spies will be appointed as advisers to Jamal Mubarak

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"Egyptian authorities have charged a local businessman and two Israelis for recruiting agents in Egypt, Syria, and Lebanon to spy for ...

US-Israeli relations

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"A sizable number of U.S. voters continue to believe that relations between Israel and the United States will worsen in the year ahead...

Servitor of Israeli interests: the cheapest puppet of any foreign occupation (Abu Mazen)

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"Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas wanted unprecedented help from Israel in attacking Hamas during the clashes just prior to the mil...

The lousy and reactionary Fath Movement: I have always hated that movement, since my teens years

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"However, he expressed concerns over what he characterized as "a crisis of leadership in Fatah, with PA President Abbas already f...

Faruq Qaddumi

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I can state without any hesitation that there is no decent leader or cadre left in the Fath Movement.  It is fair to say that the decent and...
Sunday, December 19, 2010

Michael Kinsley is my favorite American writer although he is the typical US liberal with a Zionist lapse

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" Speaking of blood, on 9/11: “My blood was boiling. We were going to find out who did this, and kick their ass.” He was in Florida at ...

Exclusive sources my...potato

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" DEBKA file   reports that the king assigned his son Prince Abdul Aziz bin Abdullah to carry this initiative forward in Damascus ....

Zionism is racism, always

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"After a rabbis' letter instructing Jews to not sell or rent apartments to Arabs, racist behavior reaches new low : An organizati...

Assange and Wikileaks

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""In fact, it is totally possible to support the WikiLeaks project and to think that the international response to Assange and th...

For sophisticated analysis of foreign affairs, who can beat Thomas Friedman?

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Look how deep his ideas and expressions are:  " God bless them: “The Few. The Proud. The Green.” Semper Fi. "

How Salam Fayyad cuts costs

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"Palestinian official in charge of the settlement file in the northern West Bank Ghassan Daghlas said Friday that a government decisio...

Israeli spy Ashraf Marwan

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I believe this account about Israeli spy, Ashraf Marwan . (thanks Khaled)

Israel and Wikileaks

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" Other observers offer an alternative explanation for the lack - so far - of many insightful cables out of Israel. For example, Ed A...

Routine Israeli practices

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"Israeli forces stormed a hospital near Bethlehem on Sunday and demanded its admissions records for the past 48 hours, staff and witne...

Dershowitz argues that Israeli killing of Palestinian civilians is good

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"Such a ratio, if true, would be far better than that achieved by any other nation in a comparable conflict ." (thanks Christophe...

If this happened in an Arab country to a Jewish student, it would be featured on front page of NYT under the headline: Holocaust in Arab Lands

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"PSYCHOLOGY student Osama Ghanaim was woken early one night last month by a mob of 60 ultra-Orthodox Jews chanting ''Kill the ...

Marks & Spencer billboards in Egypt vandalized

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Here is a picture . (thanks Farah)

Mathew Lee of the AP and his courage in press briefings at the US State Department

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Sarah sent me this:  "The journalist who asked PJ Crowley the questions about Abdallah Abu Rahma is William Lee and he's pretty co...

The Arab guy on "Lost"

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I have been watching the episodes of "Lost" in sequence.  At first, I was impressed that the Arab guy (named Sayid but for some re...

Documentation of Israeli racism

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"Israeli policies in the West Bank harshly discriminate against Palestinian residents, depriving them of basic necessities while provi...
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