The Angry Arab News Service/وكالة أنباء العربي الغاضب
A source on politics, war, the Middle East, Arabic poetry, and art.
Sunday, July 24, 2016
William Booth of the Washington Post casually carries Israeli threats to the "civilians of Lebanon"
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" and the civilians of Lebanon, they promise ." This is such a propaganda piece on two counts: 1) it carries terrorist Israeli t...
Trotskyism and the Syrian war: wahhabiyyah in red
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From James: " Louis Proyect says that it's wrong but understandable for Syrian rebels to behead Abdullah al-Issa , also that he w...
The US response to the extradition of Gulen is exactly like that of the Taliban about Bin Laden
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The US government has adamantly refused to extradite Gulen to Turkey, standing behind the request that the Turkish government should submit...
Clerical fatwas against terrorism
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As much as Westerners would like think otherwise, clerical fatwas on believers are only voluntarily and really have no binding powers what...
America's political obsession with the occupation state of Israel
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So Michele and I have been watching (and enjoying) the series, Mad Men. But from the very first season, there were signs of the political ...
Saturday, July 23, 2016
Britain has been a staunch defender of the dictatorship's assault on Yemen
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"The autocratic petro-state is currently engaged in a bombing campaign in Yemen where it has blown up hospitals, schools, and weddings...
Saudi reactions to the visit by a Saudi delegation to Israel
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This article covers the public anger against the visit --even by propagandists of the Saudi regime.
Saudi official brought his slave to London
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"A Saudi official has been accused of bringing a slave to London, as a string of crimes committed by people with diplomatic immunity ...
A Saudi regime propagandist blames the Ikhwan for the coup
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" "A Brotherhood group behind the Turkey coup "" (thanks Basim)
Your guide to Western media when they publish in Arabic
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When Western media outlets decide to publish in Arabic they enter into financial arrangements with Gulf regimes and agree to serve as propa...
The poetry of Mahmoud Darwish terrifies them
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What is the value of nuclear weapons when the poetry of Mahmoud Darwish terrifies them?
The visit to Israel by a Saudi delegation
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The reaction of Saudi people (of all stripes really) was overwhelming. Just search the key on twitter: https://twitter.com/hashtag/عشقي_في...
The Lebanese political class and Hizbullah
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You should not harbor any illusions: all elements of the Lebanese political class (from March 14 to Hizbullah) are enemies of the poor. Thi...
This Lebanese woman writes on Syria for the Daily Telegraph*--kid you not
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Carol Maalouf writes on Syria for the Financial Times. She wrote the exclusive scoop (turned out to be a fabrication) that Ali Mamlouk of S...
Anti-Semitism and the pro-Palestinian movement
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I saw this article posed on the page of a friend on Facebook, and I wrote this response: Here are the reasons (why the article should not...
Friday, July 22, 2016
The attempted coup in Turkey
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My weekly article in Al-Akhbar: "Preliminary Observations on the Attempted Coup in Turkey ".
Anne Barnard and Liz Sly and the beheading of a child by a moderate Syrian rebel group
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Both Anne Barnard and Liz Sly report on rumors, innuendos, skips, tweets, and often falsehoods if they happen to serve the interests of the...
Today, Twitter decided to ban Mujtajhid, the Saudi whistleblower
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In other news, Prince Muhammad bin Salman met with Twitter guy only a few weeks ago.
Ignorance of Saudi regime officials
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The funny part is that the Saudi delegation in Israel was met by Dore Gold, the author of a book in which he blames all terrorism on the Sa...
Saudi-Israeli alliance
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I have been writing for many years about an under-the-table but obvious Saudi-Israeli alliance. Many were skeptical. I am glad that now i...
US-backed moderate rebels admit they are worse than ISIS
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From Amir: "12-year-old Abdallah Issa, a Palestinian refugee kidnapped by US-backed moderate rebels begs them not to slaughter him. US...
Thursday, July 21, 2016
U.S. to set up 5 bases in northern Iraq & pays Kurdish militia
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"The source disclosed certain paragraphs of the agreement signed between the US Department of Defense and the Iraqi Kurdistan Region’...
Backlash against feminism in Egypt
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Misogynistic courts and clerics in Egypt are fighting back: in response to date about domestic violence, they cooked a kooky study that 66%...
Anne Barnard officially inaugurates a new journalistic practice: a fighter is an activist and an activist is a fighter in Syria if he belongs to the opposition
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" an opposition activist, fighter ". Can you imagine if she were to refer to a Hizbullah or Hamas fighter as "an activist...
The democracy requirements of NATO
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From a reader: "During the metapolitefsi coup in Greece the constitutional officers of the HNS Velos mutinied and sailed to Italy to c...
US-armed/financed/supported child killers in Syria (I mean, moderate child killers in Syria)
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From Ricardo: Have you seen this article about the child-beheading rebels in Syria? After reassuring us that the US no longer suppor...
American media hypocrisy about Turkey
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American media are aghast that Turkey may reinstate the death penalty. The argument is that democracies don't allow the death penalty--...
Once again, the Nation Magazine proves it is an enemy of the Palestinian people
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It now features a writer who supports the Israeli apartheid wall: " But the “security fence” (or “apartheid wall,” as some call it) ha...
If those were Muslim clerics, they would have been made famous on US TV and there would have been calls for "reforming" Islam
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"Israeli rabbis who are both Zionist and ultra-Orthodox have published a letter opposing Thursday’s gay pride parade in Jerusalem, cal...
Crimes of Israel: don't forget, don't forgive
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"On July 21, 1973, Israeli secret agents shot dead a man they believed was a Palestinian terrorist in the Norwegian town of Lilleham...
Saudi regime continues to spread moderation
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"Top clerical body republished 2001 edict to address illegal downloads of Pokémon Go, stating game promotes gambling, evolution and po...
“Mohamed Ahmed, Seat 25-A: I will be watching you.”
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" A Muslim man was removed from an American Airlines flight after a flight attendant publicly announced his name, seat number and said...
How the Saudi regime spread secularism around the world
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" At that point, the Saudis lost control of global Salafism, if they ever really had i t." This would be touching if true but the...
CNN hosted two "experts" on Turkey: both are from the Washington Institute
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Wednesday, July 20, 2016
Human Rights Watch director in Beirut blames the murder of a Palestinian child by a Syrian rebel group on "lack of discipline"
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Nadim Houry ( @nadimhoury ) 7/20/16, 9:31 AM Beheading of child by Nour al-Deen Zenki fighters horrible; shows depravity of many figh...
Sinan Antoon on Karrada
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"Many Iraqis were also bitter about a world whose solidarity and empathy are largely restricted and reserved for victims in the West, ...
Those Westerners who shed crocodile tears over victims of Syria are silent over Syrian victims of US bombs in Syria
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" At least 56 civilians were reported killed on Tuesday in airstrikes north of the besieged Islamic State-held city of Manbij in north...
Sign about Gulen in Taksim Turkey
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How a Saudi prince who is serving a jail sentence in Beirut for smuggling a plane load of drugs is spending his time in jail
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Apparently, he is a prisoner in name only .
When a Holocaust survivor confronted Wiesel
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"But outside the official hagiography, Wiesel was notorious for erasing non-Jewish victims of the Holocaust – Roma and LGBTQ – and def...
British charity attempts to distance itself from worker who posed with weapons
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"The commission was responding to a complaint about Hand in Hand for Syria made by Robert Stuart, a development officer at another cha...
One-third of Nice attack's dead were Muslim
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"When a Tunisian man drove a truck down a crowded street in Nice last week in an attack claimed by the Islamic State, more than one-t...
Crackdown in Israel
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It is amusing that while Western media are feigning outrage over the crackdown in Turkey, none of them are ever bothering to cover the crac...
"Syria conflict: Boy beheaded by rebels 'was not fighter'"
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" A Palestinian boy who was filmed being beheaded by Syrian rebels on Tuesday was not a fighter, a pro-government Palestinian militia ...
Famous Saudi cleric advises Syrian rebels to not show pictures of their murders
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Muhammad Al-`Arifi says: "A whisper to my brothers--who I consider better than me--the mujahidin of Syria: Don't publish pictu...
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