The Angry Arab News Service/وكالة أنباء العربي الغاضب

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

Sunday, November 25, 2012

Look at the caption for this picture in the New York Times

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"Girls at a Gaza school were stunned to find it closed."  No, you smart people of the Times.  They are stunned obviously to see...

Gaza girls cleaning up after Israeli terrorism

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stating the obvious: not all Syrians are with the rebels

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" Isn’t that what the rebels also claim?
 Mustapha: No. You know, the rebellion is not a movement as popular as you might think. The M...

The US does not like Shaykh `Ar`ur

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" "Another example is Sheik Adnan Mohammed al-Aroor, an extremist cleric from Hama who receives money from Saudi Arabia and app...

A Labor MP and Ahmad Mua`dh Al-Khatib

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A reader sent me this:   " I’m a long time reader of your blog and thought I would share an experience you might enjoy. I go to ...

Okinawans are tired of hosting American soldiers

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From a reader:  " "The U.S. military's long-strained relationship with the people of Okinawa is more tense than usual now th...

The US is spreading democracy, damn it

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" "According to a Congressional Research Service report, between 2008 and 2011, the U.S. delivered $116.8 billion worth of weapo...

This is intellectual passes as an intellectual argument in the US

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" "Karl Marx once called on workers of the world to unite across national boundaries. He told them that they had more in common ...

Sons of Zayid

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"Dubai, famed for its mega-projects before it was hit by the global financial crisis, on Saturday announced a new development to open...

Caliph Mursi

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Basim sent me this: "You should remind your readers that you referred to Mursi from day one as "the Caliph, Muhammad Mursi Mubar...

Bassam Mroue wants to show the White Man that he can be as biased for Israel as he

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Souheil sent me this:  "So many enraging statements in this Bassem Mroue article These 2 pearls: "Hezbollah, like Hamas and ot...

Who is more qualified to teach about democracy and human rights than propagandists for Saudi princes?

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I mean, really.  No one is more qualified to preach about democracy than House of Saud's propagandists . (thanks "Ibn Rushd")...

This is the question that matters: not freedom or democracy

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""But that raises an even more intriguing question going forward — whether Morsi, having shown himself, for the moment, to prefe...

Free Syrian Army exploits

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From Akram:  "In a previous post , I mentioned the efforts of the FSA gangs to destroy the Syrian air defense capabilities. The last...

Gaza and its wall

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From Geoff:  "check out friedman's column today in which he says Hamas erected it's own barrier with Israel!! According to Mr...

Dumb Feminism II

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"At one demonstration in Beirut women prominently displayed a blue bra on a protest banner ."  Wow. How radical.  How feminist.  ...

Most important honor that can be bestwoed on a man or woman

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The Saudi King was chosen by an Islamic organization in Jordan (funded by House of Saud) as the most influential man there is.  Please wak...

Dumb Feminism

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There is a genre of--let me call it--Dumb Feminism--that native fake liberals produce to please the White Man and to sustain funding for lo...

limited US role in the formation of the National Coalition of Syrian Revolutionary Forces

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I love the word limited in this sentence:  "(There was a limited US and European intervention in the process that led to the formatio...

Arabic tribute to Petraeus

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Read this tribute to David Petraeus that was published first in An-Nahar (the dying Lebanese right-wing, racist, sectarian Christian newspa...
Saturday, November 24, 2012

like many Syrians

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"Like many Syrians, she faults the West, accusing it of a moral failure for not interceding. She said the West had not acted because ...

speaking in Arabic

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"she said, speaking in Arabic over coffee in a Midtown Manhattan hotel ".  I am sure that you spoke to her through an interpreter...

Stop the presses, please. Neil MacFarquhar found a fiar-skinned Syrian and is besides himself

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"Ms. Yazbek, who has the fair complexion of many coastal Syrians ".

Sectarian Oscillation

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"Ms. Yazbek, a novelist, oscillates between embracing the Alawite label and rejecting it ".  So she is a sectarian of convenience...

Behind the picture on Gaza

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"A photograph may be worth a thousand words, but even at its most revealing it never tells an entire story. It is the capture of a si...

Acceptable Arab-Americans who agree to sit at the children's tables at dinner parties

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"After issuing a disgraceful statement on Gaza on behalf of his one-man outfit Zogby appeared on MSNBC with his good friend and Zioni...

House of Saud Zionism: this is a new feature about Wahhabi Zionism

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This is a headline from Al-Arabiyya (the website of the news station of King Fahd's brother-in-law) "Gaza schools reopen after cro...

morality police in Syria: confirmed

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From Akram, the Angry Arab's correspondent in Syria:  "Regarding the disturbing news about the increased radicalization of the arm...

When Israeli terrorists kill a Palestinian and injure nine the New York Times gives it this headline: "Tension and Confusion Linger in Gaza Strip After Cease-Fire"

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" Mr. Qudaih’s cousin Anwar Qudaih, 20, was killed, and nine others were wounded, Health Ministry officials here in Gaza said. "...

Human Rights Watch has finally spoken on Gaza: here is a summary of their findings

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Just compare the language of condemnation of P alestinians versus the language about Israeli war crimes   Mouin sent me this:   "...

rabid fanatics

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""The textbook calls Muslims "rabid fanatics" with "savage beginnings" and characterizes the Prophet Muhamma...

neutron bomb

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""A Labour former defence minister stunned peers by suggesting that a neutron bomb could be used to create a "cordon sanita...

Israeli terrorism against Gaza: the context

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"The Israeli government has referred to its siege policy as a form of “economic warfare.” In a Nov. 2008 cable from the US embassy in...

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

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Names of Palest ini an children murdered by Israeli mi litary terrorists written on their desk. PS Look in their eyes and realize why...

limits on freedom of the press in the West

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""Article 10.ii of the European convention on human rights lays down that the press may be regulated "in the interests of n...

wealthy Gulf men

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" " "Wealthy gulf men come here and tell us that they want to take care of our daughters and our families, but we all know ...

Hamas, torn apart

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""Qatar has sought to use its vast wealth to win over Hamas with investments and humanitarian aid and encouraging Arab partners ...

Zionist morality: they can die, but what about their cats (remind me of Hitler's love of animals)

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"@sharonudasin stalks the wards of Shifa hospital in #Gaza. "Doctor, with all these people injured or dead, who will feed their c...

Syrian rebel morality police

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Do people have confirmation to stories about the formation of a Saudi-like moral police in some districts under the control of the FSA and ...

Syrian former leftists

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A critique of Syrian former leftists.

Another death in the House of Saud

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My shovel is on the ready for the House of Saud.  I have not been able to catch up.  Mojtahed is reporting a health complication for the Sa...

Nabatiyyah camp: erased by Israeli bombs

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It occurred to me yesterday that we should have a special website to chronicle all Israeli crimes from the beginning of the Zionist coloniz...
Friday, November 23, 2012

This is an Israeli dove, mind you

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"Les habitants de Gaza participent à la guerre contre Israël : nous avons retirés les colons, nous sommes partis [en 2005, Israël a e...

Accoriding to Ian Black of the Guardian, Israel occupied the Goland heights in 1973

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(thanks Yago)

Prince Hamzah of Jordan

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Hani sent me this:  " Your earlier post linking the New York Times Article makes more sense since Hamzah married a Jordanian from Can...
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