The Angry Arab News Service/وكالة أنباء العربي الغاضب

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

Saturday, December 26, 2009

What Atrabs want

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The other day, I heard a terrorism expert--yes, one of those--speaking on Fox News. He said that Arabs really want Israel to bomb Iran. Wh...
Friday, December 25, 2009

Obama Doctrine Explained

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"Still, the U.S. involvement in the strike in southeastern Yemen -- along with a similar strike in the country last week -- appears to...

Bahrain King hearts Israeli wars and occupation

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"A Bahraini pro-Palestine NGO has called for the reinstatement of an imam who has been suspended allegedly after he harshly criticised...

Veolia, Alstom in legal muddle

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"Two French transport giants Veolia and Alstom could face trial in France over their involvement in the Jerusalem Light Rail project t...

a courageous American has died

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" In the 1930s and early ’40s, Mr. Rodney, a grandson of Jewish immigrants from Europe, became an outspoken voice among sportswriters, ...

Dahiyah

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" Israel was accused of using disproportionate force in Lebanon, particularly after it flattened the Dahiya district in Beirut, a Shiit...

Valuable con man

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"Six years later, Playboy magazine has revealed that the CIA fell victim to an elaborate con by a compulsive gambler who claimed to h...

For Jamal Mubarak

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Expect the Egyptian services to Israel to grow and expand in the next months and years as long as Husni Mubarak is alive. He is trying very...

Person of the Day

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New TV has a daily feature called Person of the Day. By and large, they are very shallow and ill-informed. Most carry the footprints of Wi...

Isabel Kershner: her services for Israeli propaganda continues

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There is not a single article that appears with her name in the NYT that does not show from the first or second sentence intentions of Israe...

More Lebanese lobyying in the US

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This is by the Lebanon Renaissance Foundation . And David sent me more (I cite with his permission): " The Lebanese Renaissance Founda...

Adam Ereli in Damascus: Why not Send Ariel Sharon?

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So you have a new US ambassador in Damascus. Here what I had written about him before.
Thursday, December 24, 2009

Fu'ad Makhzumi's lobbying in the US

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David sent me this (about the post below about this Lebanese billionaire dude): " Makhzumi paid Barbour, Griffith and Rogers at least ...

Israel is now welcome at UAE

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While censorship grows in the UAE, I have received news that the UAE censors have lifted the ban on Israeli websites two or three months ago...

'Our kids can’t live with Arabs’

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"Dozens of parents and their disabled children protested Thursday opposite the Welfare Ministry in Jerusalem over plans to house their...

If Muslim kids did that, it would be on the front page of the NYT

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"About 200 teens soon to be drafted into the Israeli army sent a letter to the defense minister saying their loyalty to the Torah come...

Oh, come on: what is uniquely American

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" But stand-up and its emphasis on self-deprecation and crossing red lines is uniquely American." Oh, come on. Enough of this q...

Dirty Lebanese hands: the case of Fu'ad Makhzumi

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" David Cameron was facing pressure tonight to explain whether the Conservatives have complied with the spirit of electoral law after...

When I write "thanks X"

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Some people may have misunderstood. When I end a post by saying "(thanks X)" is it meant as a thanks to a person who sent me a li...

Israel will decide whether your criticisms of Israel are anti-Semitic: but has Israel ever considered criticisms of Israel non-anti-Semitic?

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"When asked to comment on the view of some in the Israeli government that the Goldstone report was anti-Semitic, Rosenthal said: ...

Prevalence and sociodemographic correlates of stunting, underweight, and overweight among Palestinian school adolescents

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"Overweight/obesity was more prevalent in Ramallah than in Hebron and affected more girls than boys. Using the 2000 CDC reference, the...

The Mubarak regime versus Muhammad Al-Baradi`i (or Baradeeeh, as it is pronounced in US TV news)

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Mubark regime plots against Muhammad Al-Baradi`i who wants to succeed Mubarak. Both have the charisma of sliced cucumbers.

The anguish of the murderous occupiers: the liberal Zionism of Eric Alterman

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Since I came to this country, I have always believed that the worst Zionists in the US are the liberal Zionists--because they are so bad and...

"Those people" can laugh: and they sometimes use knives and forks

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Look at this intro in the NYT: " For all of the animosity, mistrust and lack of understanding between the West and the Muslim world, t...

Chaim Weizmann

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I woke up and on my way to pick up my two newspapers, I encountered one of the volumes of Chaim Weizmann's letters and papers in my libr...
Wednesday, December 23, 2009

Saudi propaganda logic

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So the private station of King Fahd's brother-in-law was airing a discussion on Yemen and the alleged alliance between Al-Qa`idah and th...

Al-Qa`idah conspiracy

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Is there one Arab dissident group that is not accused now of links with Al-Qa`idah? And while you are at it, answer this: during the Cold W...

Look at this chutzpah headline

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"One Pakistan is Enough: We don't need nuclear-armed, terrorist-run Palestinian state next to Israel." (thanks Rashid)

South Yemen

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Saudi propaganda knows no limits or standards of any kind. The royal family that supported the South Yemen movement after 1991 to punish Al...

There are good liars and there are bad liars: here is a bad one

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"The [US] official added that the US did not support any Lebanese political groups or politicians."

Lebaese self-image: reality versus perception

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"“Interestingly, when we asked the respondents to rate their own Internet capabilities, those in Lebanon came out as the most competen...

if you want critical, invesitgating reporting, please refer to Hassan Fattah's newspaper for the eyes of the Nahyan dynasty

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" No rest for Sheikh Abdullah in a whirlwind year" The subtitled should have read: and no rest for his brother, who was busy tor...

Foreign workers in Jordan

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"Foreign workers in the Kingdom are still subject to abuses and unacceptable work conditions inconsistent with international standards...

Israeli laws

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It is clear to me that many American liberals don't know much about the nature of the Israeli state and its laws. Recently, after my t...

Zionism is racism, even when it comes to noise

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"The sounds of Jewish music around the area of the Cave of the Patriarchs in Hevron may be loud, but not beyond the legal noise limit,...

Disgrace unto the nations

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" 'Another of Ben-Gurion's stupidities, "a light unto the nations," from the days of the raids on Qibya in 1953 and...

US agenda for democracy and human rights

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" US defence group Lockheed Martin has won a contract worth $841.9m (£528.2m) to supply Morocco with 24 F-16 fighter aircraft and suppo...

Israeli guards

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"The man claimed the two officers stopped him to look at his papers, ordered he get in their car and drove him to a secluded place, wh...

This is Israel: a disgrace unto the nations

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"Israel prevents Gaza Christian and his Bethlehem fiancée from marrying" (thanks Olivia)

Nasr Hamid Abu Zayd

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Egyptian thinker Nasr Hamid Abu Zayd (who angers Al-Azhar University for Obscurantism) suffers from Kuwait and Egyptian oppression . Of cou...

Jamilah

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The story of Jamilah Buhayrad . (thanks Raed)

Arab leaders

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I hate when Arab leaders think that if they are seen driving their car before the cameras, it is a sign of their modesty and reformist tende...

Images of US puppets in the Middle East

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" King Abdullah II, popularly perceived in the West as being among the most enlightened Middle East leaders. " Now this statement...

For reliable reporting on Iran, I alwasy turn to the new York Times

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" and a Web site in Iran reported that “many” of the protesters had been injured." And I know a website which claims that Bin La...

Lessons about objectivity

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" which does not always strive for journalistic objectivity on the subject of his treatment. " Unlike the New York Times which st...
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