The Angry Arab News Service/وكالة أنباء العربي الغاضب

" Depending less on capricious foreign aid, Gaza also enjoys “exceptionally high” economic growth, according to the latest World Bank ...

" Yet some liberal Israelis think a “moderate victory” may actually jolt the peace process into life. “If the Palestinians lose,” says...

" Such a resolution, it is assumed, would include a reassertion that any final accord would recognise Israel and guarantee its securit...

I heard Mustafa Barghuti on BBC News.  He reminded me of Hanan Ashrawi: how to play it both ways.  Being in agreement with the PA collabora...

My weekly article in Al-Akhbar:  "Three Ramadan [TV]  Serials ".

" Our efforts are not aimed at isolating Israel or de-legitimizing it".  So you renounce armed struggle and then add that you don...

" Yet, because we believe in peace and because of our conviction in international legitimacy, and because we had the courage to make d...

An article by a Saudi writer in which she exposes the hypocrisy of Saudi media (and its Wahhabi liberals) regarding Arab uprisings.

An interesting piece by Subhi Hadidi on the power elite of Bashshar.  But his references to Rif`at failed to mention his long-standing Sau...

Do you think that Saudi Arabia would have allowed `Ali `Abdullah Salih to return to Yemen without US permission?  

" Senior US officials clarified during a series of meetings with Finance Minister Yuval Steinitz Washington has no intention of downsi...

" Speaking at the rally, Daniel Cohen Bendit  urged social protest leaders to aid the Palestinian cause , saying: "I spoke with t...

" Amidst this commotion, a local columnist published a strong article. "Anyone who harms the IDF is not a Zionist," she wrot...

This is news that is not fit to print:  "A court in Oman has jailed two senior journalists for five months for insulting the justice ...

Lebanese president Michel Sulayman, posing for a picture with the notorious Sharbil Barakat, who split off from the Lebanese Army in 1975 ...

"But the people of Tawurgha, more than 30,000, predominantly black, are all gone, refugees who mostly fled when rebels advanced last ...

" Speaking to reporters after the ceremonial flag-raising over a makeshift post that was once his residence, Ambassador Gene A. Cretz ...

A Palestinian in Sabra refugee camp outside of Beirut is carrying his pre-1948 Palestinian identity card.  And they want us to pretend th...

" The question she heard over and over: What effect will the revolution have on Tunisian attitudes toward the Arab-Israeli conflict? ...

Is it not time for all Arabs to rule out any role by UN in of their affairs after a UN "investigation" ruled that Israeli siege o...

Comrade Hossam comments .  (thanks Hossam)

Kristen, a correspondent in the Middle East sent me this (I cite with her permission):  "I am in Iran and am highly annoyed that I can...

Al-Ahram newspaper quickly went back to what it has been all along: a lousy mouthpiece for Sadat and for Mubarak (at least in Nasser's...

"Aside from his experience as defense minister, he would bring a neutrality that no Shia -- such as current FM Fawzi Salloukh, an al...

You have to see this.  Look how Saudi Arabia is not placed among the very worst countries for women in the world. (thanks Hana')

The news station of King Fahd's brother-in-law, Al-Arabiyya is showing a documentary on King `Abdul-`Aziz.  It is comical of course. ...

Years ago, in the good old days when Arab diplomats used to walk out when Israeli speakers approach the podium at international events and ...

Did you notice that since Iraq, the US military fatigue uniforms have been uniformly permanently changed.  They are now suited for more des...

In one year, this website has made an impact in Middle East analysis.  Salutation to all the comrades there.  

"Palestinian chief negotiator Saeb Erekat said in response to these threats that in case the bid for statehood is vetoed by the United...

"Bahrain King King Hamad Bin Isa al-Khalifa greets US President Barack Obama as they arrive for a luncheon hosted by UN Secretary Ge...

Look at this sentence:  "The State of Israel may have been created unjustly ..." (thanks Kareem)

""Twilight" star Kellan Lutz, visiting for the second time, noted that people are "not really informed" about Isra...

This is an official farce, if ever there has been one: (thanks Hani)

It is most audacious.  Here is the state with the largest arsenal of WMDs and yet it does not mind raising its voice about possible researc...

My new blog post on Aljazeera at Al-Akhbar English.

In one day, Syrian dissident, Haytham Al-Malih first supported foreign intervention in Syria and then reversed himself and expressed opposi...

This is typical.  Lebanese Phalanges leader, Sami Gemayyel, launches a mega legal suit because someone criticized him on Facebook.  Kid yo...

"As a writer, Mr. Friedman is best known for his galloping assaults on Strunk and White's Rule No. 9: "Do Not Affect a Breez...

Obama's speech is good.  It is if you evaluate it as speech by someone running for the post of director of AIPAC.  Very good in that re...

Look at this guy:  " Ongoing security coordination between Palestinian and Israeli forces has led to unprecedented stability in the We...

Forget about politics, for a second.  Just look at him.  Does this look to you like someone who can inspire a rat?  If this guy is not a...

Fahmi Huwaydi on the rising anti-Americanism in Egypt. (thanks Joseph)

There is a big story in Jordan but is getting no coverage in the Western press.  The ousting by the prime minister of Jordan of the governo...

" White House officials say that he has long been keenly aware that he, like no other American president, stood as a potential beacon ...