Whenever you read "Arab people", they simply mean Gulf regime despots and their propagandists in the West

Richard Grenell (@RichardGrenell)

4/7/17, 6:06 PM

Lebanese diplomat to me: "Your Trump is getting near universal accolades from Arab diplomats. They are ready for US leadership" (thanks Michele)

Ayaan Hiirsi Ali: giving a bad name to atheists and free thinkers in the Middle East

It is amazing how space and platforms this person is given. She is no expert or scholar but is treated as one across the Western world simply because her hostility toward Islam is favored.  Just imagine an anti-Semite (and she is as far as Islam is concerned the exact equivalent of an anti-Semite) treated with such respect. I suspect that she knows what Da`wa means. People like her give atheists and free thinkers in the Arab and Islamic world a bad name.  She even wants the government to interrogate Muslim families about their faith and views: "Is Ms. Hirsi Ali proposing to give Washington enhanced powers to supervise parenting? “Yes,” she says. “We want these children to be exposed to critical thinking, freedom, the Constitution, the Bill of Rights, the rights of women.” She also suggests subjecting immigrants and refugees to ideological scrutiny, so as to deny entry, residence and naturalization to those “involved with, or supportive of, Islamism.”"  If David Duke were to suggest something like that about Jewish families, can you imagine the uproar? We would move toward tolerance and equality when people like her are treated just as David Duke is treated (and deservedly, with utter contempt).

The Least Famous victims in the world are Syrian and Iraqi civilians killed by US bombs and missiles

AԼison Meuse (@AliTahmizian)

4/8/17, 7:29 AM

SOHR: Suspected coalition strikes have killed 15 civilians, including 4 children, in an eastern ISIS-held village between Tabqa and Raqqa

Zionists are salivating: they want more bombing and more war: this guy was Trump's harshest critic

Bill Kristol (@BillKristol)

4/8/17, 9:52 AM Punishing Assad for use of chemical weapons is good. Regime change in Iran is the prize. washingtonpost.com/news/global-op…

This should give a pause to Western media

I have never in my years seen Gulf regimes media and Western media being copies of each other. That should tell you something about the story of Western media these days (years).  

Huffington Post proves--yet again--that is is solidly in the camp of the Gulf regimes (which funded its Arabic outlet)

This is a hilarious account in the pro-Gulf regime, Huffington Post (English). It writer (sympathetic to Gulf regimes) basically makes the case that the Saudi and Qatari regimes are the most secular regimes in the Middle East region. But that is not all: he lumps right-wing groups with unnamed leftists in the camp of Bashshar Al-Asad.  But who are those leftists which he attacks and accuses of being supporters of Bashshar Al-Asad: "In their rush to demonize the opposition, some on the left and right have veered into conspiracy theories. Some writers argue that the internationally renowned volunteer medical organization known as the White Helmets is a terror front. Gabbard cites Stephen Kinzer, a fellow at Brown University who believes the American media is engaged in a government-led conspiracy to discredit Assad."  Of course, Kinzer (whose politics are not known to me, and I don't know him) was in no way defending the Syrian regime but merely saying that Western media are doing a lousy job. But this is new: this is like the Zionist ploy: if you attack Israel, you must be anti-Semitic, and Bill Crystal of the Weekly Standard said that anyone criticizing US missile attack is by definition a supporter of Bashshar Al-Asad.  This writer in Huffington Post should learn that there are those who oppose Bashshar Al-Asad AND Gulf regimes, but that is hard to understand in an ostensibly liberal outlet which serves Gulf regime interests.

PS Also, notice that he lumps legitimate criticisms of Zionist influence over US foreign policy in the Middle East (which is a fact) with the repugnant views of racists and anti-Semties like Duke and Spencer.  

Remember this about Human Rights Watch: its director relies on the op-ed of a pro-Saudi regime fellow at Rafiq Hariri Center in DC

Kenneth Roth (@KenRoth)

4/8/17, 10:05 AM What might have led Assad to use nerve agent in Khan Sheikhoun? If you can't besiege and starve them, terrify them. bit.ly/2oQafeD pic.twitter.com/dXOCFySeC3

This should be for the history book when the story of the decline and demise of the credibility of Human Rights Watch is written.  Its director relies on an op-ed piece by a "fellow" at the notoriously pro-Saudi regime Rafiq Hariri Center at the Atlantic Council (and the Hariri Center is under strict order by its founder, Baha' Hariri, son of the notoriously pro-Saudi regime Rafiq Hariri, to not touch the Palestinian question in its propaganda work).  

Russia: the lousy ally of the "resistance axis" in the Middle East and the better friend of Israeli occupation

"Russia recognizes Jerusalem as Israel's capital"

Look at this headline from Democracy Now

"Trump Shocks World in Direct U.S. Strike on Syrian Airbase That Could Violate International Law"

I am afraid that Jacobin subscribed to the dominant West-Gulf regimes narrative which made this bombing of Syria possible and enthusiastically received in the US

Jacobin (@jacobinmag)

4/7/17, 8:43 AM The bombing of Syria lays bare the impulsive violence of Trump’s foreign policy and the rot of American democracy.

Does he not sound like Ban Ki-Moon?

Bernie Sanders (@SenSanders)

4/7/17, 8:28 AM I’m deeply concerned the strike in Syria could lead the U.S. back into the quagmire of long-term military engagement in the Middle East.

Ben Hubbard on US attack on Syria

He basically has two things to tell you:
1. "In Israel, which has kept its distance from the war raging across its northern border".  He meant that Israeli bombing and raids and assassinations in Syria, notwithstanding but he forgot to quality that.
2. He wants you to know that more US attack and war is needed in Syria to do the job: "“I feel the ecstasy of revenge now,” said Malek al-Shimali, an antigovernment activist who recently fled to Turkey. “I don’t feel the strike will change anything. Unless Bashar goes, nothing will change.”"

BBC assumes that propagandists of the Saudi regimes are representative of all Arabs

"Arabs praise 'Abu Ivanka' aka Trump for Syria strike"
Just as those media assumed that Ahmad Chalabi spoke for all Iraqis and that Kanaan Makiyya spoke for all Arabs.

Jared of Arabia...and Israel, of course

In pictures

Divine blessing for US bombing: and who are the ones invoking religion in war?

Marco Rubio‏Verified account @marcorubio  14h14 hours ago

"Be sure of this: The wicked will not go unpunished" Proverbs 11:21 #SyriaChemicalAttack

Some American liberal criticisms of Trump

Most US liberals are divided: some are very pleased with US bombing of Syria, other US liberals are quite angry that the bombing was not more massive and extensive.  This passes as liberal peace deliberation in US politics.

Democracy Now

Is it not time for Democracy Now to host Muhammad bin Salman to discuss Syria? 

You know that Gulf despots are pleased when

When the Qatari regime Arabic Huffington Post took time off yesterday from its hourly avalanche of sleazy misogyny to post cheers for Trump.  

This must be shocking: Zionist club at WINEP is quite pleased with the bombing of Syria

Andrew Tabler (@Andrewtabler)

4/6/17, 6:38 PM US attacks justified based on evidence of attack and UNSCR 2118 and 2235. Assad regime has violated the CWC multiple times

Don't ever doubt US liberal love for wars on Arabs/Muslims

Nicholas Kristof (@NickKristof)

4/6/17, 6:25 PM Trump is right to make Syria pay a price for war crimes, and taking out airfields is the best approach. I do worry about his execution.

Trudeau on the chemical attack in Syria

having earned her credibility from the US war on Iraq, Judith Miller wants war and she wants it now

Judith Miller (@JMfreespeech)

4/5/17, 2:05 PM Tough tweets by @realDonaldTrump aren't enough to counter Syria's flagrant war crime, using CW against civilians foxnews.com/opinion/2017/0…

This is funny: he first calls on Trump to turn to the American people, but then urged that he should ignore the public if they don't want war

Shadi Hamid‏Verified account @shadihamid

Replying to @chrislhayes

This is where our leaders must make the case to American people; why this why this matters to our security; why the moral component matters

1. Shadi Hamid‏Verified account @shadihamid  13h13 hours ago
   Replying to @shadihamid @chrislhayes
   But worry about making critical FP decisions subject to public opinion or polling. Obama, I think, veered too much in this direction

Human Rights Watch director is "glad" that US is going to war

Kenneth Roth (@KenRoth)

4/6/17, 4:54 PM I'm glad Tillerson is waking up from his fog of indifference, but Assad, backed by Putin, has been attacking civilians for six years now.twitter.com/StateDept/stat…

War bipartisanship always gives me goose bumps

NBC News (@NBCNews)

4/6/17, 6:45 PM

WATCH: Hillary Clinton said U.S. should attack Assad's airfields hours before missile strike. More: nbcnews.to/2o34p6W pic.twitter.com/GtiAjJE7sK

Zionists are so pleased that

Bill Crystal forgot about his long-standing animosity toward Trump.

Looking presidential

I could not stomach much US TV "news" yesterday but I can predict that there were Republican and Democratic pundits who confirmed that Trump "looked presidential" when he ordered the bombing.

Exclusive: Anne Barnard found an expert who can identify chemical weapons before they are even dropped from planes

"Syrian Su-22 aircraft were then seen circling above Khan Sheikhoun at 6:47 a.m. and again at 6:51 a.m. One of the observers — based on long experience — believed that the planes might be carrying a chemical payload.

“Guys, tell people to wear masks,” he warned." (thanks Marc)

Brian Williams

In praising US missiles yesterday, was Brian Williams using his own words or did he plagiarize them as usual?

Syrian regime is terrible and brutal

No matter how bad a regime is--and the Syrian regime is pretty extremely bad--but the US guarantees that it can replace it with an even worse alternative--if that is possible. Look at Libyan and Iraqi and Afghan examples of US political artwork.

Israeli chemical weapons are a footnote

I doubt that any Western reporter will call for the removal of the Israeli government due to Israeli stockpile of chemical weapons (not to mention its arsenal of nuclear and biological weapons): "To date, only three countries – Egypt, North Korea and South Sudan – have neither signed nor ratified the Chemical Weapons Convention, plus Israel which has signed but have not ratified."  So 3 out of the 4 countries listed are close US allies.  A coincidence, I am sure.

Guess who cheered US bombing on Syria?

Two Syrian rebel groups which were categorized by John Kerry as Al-Qa`idah and ISIS "subgroups": "“There are a couple of subgroups underneath the two designated — Daesh and Jabhat al-Nusra — Jaysh al-Islam, Ahrar al-Sham particularly — who brush off and fight with that — alongside these other two sometimes to fight the Assad regime,” he said, referring to two rebel groups that the United States has not named as terrorist groups until now."

Since 2001, the only Arabs/Muslims who are worth quoting in Western media...

Are Arabs/Muslism who are either pleased with US bombing on Arab/Muslim countries, or who are not pleased only because they believe that there should be more bombing.  In a nutshell, all Western media (left right and center) have decided that Gulf potentates and the Jordanian buffoon potentate speak for the Arab youth (as well as the 80-year old "president" of Tunisia).

Remember this number: 7912 US attack on Syria

There are people who are acting that US has never bombed Syria before.  This is attack number 7912 by US (or its coalition partners) on Syria, according to Airwars monitoring group.

Guardian sent its own expert to Khan Shaykhoun

So for verification of culpability in Khan Shaykhun, Western media only requires the expertise of natural, unbiased observers: either the neutral, unbiased Turkish government, or the neutral, unbiased correspondent in Beirut whose sympathy for Syrian rebels have never been unknown.

On days like this

You realize that there is no difference--when it comes to US bombs over the heads of Arabs/Muslims--between Trump, Clinton and even Bernie Sanders.  

When US bombs fall

When US missiles and bombs fall you can't tell a liberal from a conservative (or vice-versa) on US television.

So Trump is safe now?

Let me get this straight: so according to DC pundits, Trump was a dangerous maniac...until he started bombing?

Suddenly Trump will become wise

Suddenly, they will say that he grew in the job.

Now that the US is heading toward war, there is only glee from Western correspondents in the Middle East

Liz Sly‏Verified account @LizSly  20s20 seconds ago

Assad called Trump a "natural ally." That's not working out so well.

Amnesty International from December of 1990 in the Washington Post: a girl watched Iraqi soldiers toss babies out of incubators

"Amnesty also cited accounts from a Red Crescent physician who claimed that 312 babies died in the early days of the invasion after soldiers looted incubators from Razi, Addan and Maternity hospitals. The physician, whose name was withheld, claimed to have helped bury 72 infants at the Rigga cemetery.  Two witnesses also claimed to have seen dead bodies at Addan. One, a 15-year-old Kuwaiti girl, claimed to have watched Iraqi soldiers dump 15 babies onto the hospital floor from their incubators, while a Kuwaiti doctor said he knew of 36 dead babies at the hospital."  

Later the New York Times revealed the identity of the Kuwaiti "girl": 

"Mr. Lantos is co-chairman of the Congressional Human Rights Caucus. An article last week on The Times's Op-Ed page by John MacArthur, the publisher of Harper's magazine, revealed the identity of a 15-year-old Kuwaiti girl who told the caucus that Iraqi soldiers had removed scores of babies from incubators and left them to die.  The girl, whose testimony helped build support for the Persian Gulf war, was identified only as "Nayirah," supposedly to protect family members still in Kuwait. Another piece of information was also withheld: that she is not just some Kuwaiti but the daughter of the Kuwaiti Ambassador to the U.S. 

Saddam Hussein committed plenty of atrocities, but not, apparently, this one. The teen-ager's accusation, at first verified by Amnesty International, was later refuted by that group as well as by other independent human rights monitors. But the issue is not so much the accuracy of the testimony as the identity and undisclosed bias of the witness. How did the girl's testimony come about? It was arranged by the big public relations firm of Hill & Knowlton on behalf of a client, the Kuwaiti-sponsored Citizens for a Free Kuwait, which was then pressing Congress for military intervention. Mr. Lantos knew the girl's identity but concealed it from the public and from the other caucus co-chairman, Representative John E. Porter of Illinois."

When they smell a US war against an Arab or Muslim country

There is no Democrat or Republican in the US  when there is an impending US war on an Arab or a Muslim country.  They are all united in this effort.

It is funny that the Turkish government is not believed in the West unless its words serve the cause of US war

Peter Baker (@peterbakernyt)

4/6/17, 10:23 AM

Syrians killed in this week's attack were poisoned with sarin, a banned nerve agent, Turks find. @PatrickKingsley nytimes.com/2017/04/06/wor…

If a US war is launched on Syria the entire Western media spectrum is complicit

If there is a US war on Syria, the entire Western media spectrum (from Democracy Now to Nation Magazine to the Guardian to NYT and WP to Weekly Standards) is complicit in this war criminal act.  They have been edging and pushing for war for the entire span of this war, and they have exclusively been citing and promoting individuals who have been pushing for a US war--and most if not all of those individuals are affiliated with Gulf regimes and their propaganda outlets in the East and West.  

Hafidh Al-Asad Center for Research

There is no such center but I am talking hypothetically: if there is a Hafidh Al-Asad Center for Research would any person affiliated with that center be ever cited in the Western media?  Yet, people afflicted with the King Faisal Center in Saudi Arabia are cited (and approvingly often) in all Western media.