"Maps show Arab villages and towns attacked and de-populated by Israel"
Saturday, May 03, 2014
The child molesting Marointe Priest, Mansur Labaki of Lebanon
"Ibn Rushd" sent me this about the case of Mansur Labaki, who is being defended in Lebanon by An-Nahar newspaper and other right-wing sectarian media:
"Here's a piece on Labaki's guilt, by France leading catholic newspaper, La Croix
and the official condemnation letter by the Archbishop of Paris detailing his deeds before the Vatican's Congregation pour la doctrine de la foi
And Radio Vatican confirming that he lost the appeal "
"Here's a piece on Labaki's guilt, by France leading catholic newspaper, La Croix
and the official condemnation letter by the Archbishop of Paris detailing his deeds before the Vatican's Congregation pour la doctrine de la foi
And Radio Vatican confirming that he lost the appeal "
creatures of Western governemnts
"Navi Pillay, the United Nations human rights chief, sharply rebuked South Sudan’s warring leaders on Wednesday, saying they had to stop “blindly dragging their people down the path of self-destruction” and warning that they would face investigation for possible war crimes and crimes against humanity." Of course, they would never be investigated for possible war crimes. Those are clients of the West after all.
This is how the New York Times justifies the actual footage of an Israeli terrorist soldier beating and kicking unarmed Palestinian youngsters
"That would be David Adamov, a soldier in the Nahal Brigade of the Israeli Army, who was videotaped having an aggressive confrontation with Palestinian teenagers in the always tense West Bank city of Hebron...He kicks the youth, who is heard swearing at him". Oh, he cursed the terrorist soldiers? Oh, that changes the picture then. For the New York Times, he should have been shot in the head for cursing at the soldier.
OK, then. Can an Islamic state provicee equal rights to Jewish and Christian citizens in it?
“The State of Israel will always preserve the full equality, in personal and civil rights, of all its citizens, Jewish and non-Jewish alike, in a Jewish and democratic country.”
Etel Adnan
When was Etel Adnan ever "exiled" from Lebanon? She voluntarily immigrated to the US. "(once exiled from her home country of Lebanon)"
The pioneering record of Zionist terrorism in the Middle East: mentors of Bin Laden
""Patrick Bishop sets out in detail the story of the British manhunt to root out “Herr” Stern and his small band of “Fighters for the Freedom of Israel”, better known by its Hebrew acronym, Lehi. As long as Stern’s men were perpetrating atrocities against Palestinians, the British continued to hold the ring. His militants sewed explosive vests and planted bombs in chocolate boxes and milk-churns in Arab cinemas, cafés and markets. When caught, they did spells in detention camps, often escaping with remarkable ease."" (thanks Khelil)
Human Rights Watch
I am dying to see the lame statement by Human Rights Watch in which it will justify the murder of civilians by pro-US regime in Ukraine.
The Washington Post finds damning evidence of the presence of Russian armed agents in Ukraine:
"The attackers, who threw stones and wielded sticks". Wow. So dangerous and deadly. Now if this story does not convince you that the Ukrainian regime is justified in killing all protesters, nothing will.
No wonder Western governments are enamored with corrupt Gulf potentates
"An ornate theatre in the famous French Palace of Fontainebleau has been restored after 150 years of disuse, and will be named after the ruler of Abu Dhabi who funded the project, it's been reported." (thanks Mohammad)
Syria and then Ukraine: Western logic
According to the West: the Syrian government is not justified in using force against armed rebels but in Ukraine, the government is justified in using force against unarmed civilians.
And they call it...Peace Process
"Furthermore, plans for nearly 14,000 new settler homes were approved, by the Israeli government, during the nine months of US-brokered peace talks with Palestinians -- this in addition to over 500 Palestinian structures which were demolished throughout the negotiation period that formally ended on April 29th."
The missile proof Paper Dome of Israel
""A military spokeswoman said that more than 100 projectiles fired by militants in Hamas-ruled Gaza have hit Israel this year." (thanks Amir)
So how to deal with Nakbah? Hold meetings of course
From a March 14 Minister: "“This is like the Nakbeh. The Arab community then is obligated to hold several meetings and design a mechanism to deal with this very dangerous matter,” he said. " (thanks Basim)
The worst example of Arab journalists?
By far the correspondents of the media of Saudi princes in Western capitals.
The media of Saudi princes: Al-Arabiyyah by way of example
This sentence summarizes for me the sleazy Saudi media, like Al-Arabiyya, the news station of King Fahd's brother-in-law. It says: "based on what Al-Arabiyya net has explored in his women's achrives"--talking about George Cloony's engagement.
The West's Heror in Rwanda
""The phone recordings are part of a months-long investigation by The Globe into murder plots organized by the Rwandan government. Rwandan exiles in both South Africa and Belgium - speaking in clandestine meetings in secure locations because of their fears of attack - gave detailed accounts of being recruited to assassinate critics of [Rwandan] President [Paul] Kagame.
Their evidence is the strongest yet to support what human rights groups and Rwandan exiles have suspected for years about the Rwandan government's involvement in attacks or planned attacks on dissidents, not only in South Africa but in Britain, Sweden, Belgium, Uganda, Kenya and Mozambique.
It also raises new questions about the world's moral stand on Rwanda. This year, the country marks the 20th anniversary of a shocking genocide. Because he helped stop the genocide, Mr. Kagame is hailed as a hero and his reborn country is touted as a model for African development - stable, business-oriented, fast-growing, environmentally clean and virtually free of pettty corruption. But as revelations of murder plots and assassinations mount, easy narratives of good overcoming evil become more and more difficult to sustain. The reality in Rwanda is far more complex. The mass killings of the 1990s and the recent assassination plots left almost no one untainted.
Meanwhile, Mr. Kagame's enemies live in fear - or in hiding - after a wave of attacks against them.
And they are the lucky ones: On New Year's Eve, one of the Mr. Kagame's most-wanted, Rwandan dissident Patrick Karegeya, was brutally strangled to death in a Johannesburg hotel room. His killer or killers remain at large."" (thanks Regan)
Their evidence is the strongest yet to support what human rights groups and Rwandan exiles have suspected for years about the Rwandan government's involvement in attacks or planned attacks on dissidents, not only in South Africa but in Britain, Sweden, Belgium, Uganda, Kenya and Mozambique.
It also raises new questions about the world's moral stand on Rwanda. This year, the country marks the 20th anniversary of a shocking genocide. Because he helped stop the genocide, Mr. Kagame is hailed as a hero and his reborn country is touted as a model for African development - stable, business-oriented, fast-growing, environmentally clean and virtually free of pettty corruption. But as revelations of murder plots and assassinations mount, easy narratives of good overcoming evil become more and more difficult to sustain. The reality in Rwanda is far more complex. The mass killings of the 1990s and the recent assassination plots left almost no one untainted.
Meanwhile, Mr. Kagame's enemies live in fear - or in hiding - after a wave of attacks against them.
And they are the lucky ones: On New Year's Eve, one of the Mr. Kagame's most-wanted, Rwandan dissident Patrick Karegeya, was brutally strangled to death in a Johannesburg hotel room. His killer or killers remain at large."" (thanks Regan)
Jordanian Christian kills daughter for converting to Islam
"Jordanian Christian kills daughter for converting to Islam". I have seen this story in the Arabic press but not in the US media. When Christianity is the culprit (just as they declare ALL of Islam the culprit in the West) you never see damning stories and generalizations and calls for reform of the religion. If the father who crashed his daughter's skull was a Muslim, and if the conversion was to Christianity, this would have been a front page story in the US media.
Hariri Tribunal Versus the Press
My weekly article for Al-Akhbar: "Hariri Tribunal Versus the Press: the White Man Cracks the Whip".
Friday, May 02, 2014
You should thank NATO for this one
The new NATO mufti of Libya has ruled: it is not religiously permissible to import women's underwear to the country. (thanks Mahmod)
On the use of Chlorine by Al-Qa`idah terrorists: not in the New York Times or Washington Post
"The first attack that received media attention was at Taji, where terrorists remotely detonated a 5-ton truck packed with 100 pounds of high explosives and two 1-ton chlorine tanks. The attack killed one civilian and wounded 114 others.
Other chlorine attacks occurred in Fallujah, Balad and Ramadi. The most recent attack was June 3 against Forward Operating Base Warhorse, in Diyala province. Again, a suicide car bomber launched the attack, and officials estimate it included two tanks of chlorine and 1,000 pounds of explosive. The cloud from the attack blew over Warhorse and sickened 65 servicemembers, Multinational Force Iraq officials said. All were examined and returned to duty.
Officials in Baghdad cannot tell from their records if anyone has died from chlorine inhalation. A Multinational Force Iraq spokesman said there are anecdotal reports that while the blasts from the attacks have killed, few have died solely from the gas. “We hear that an old man and some babies may have been killed, but we can’t pin that down,” the spokesman said. " (thanks Fadi)
Other chlorine attacks occurred in Fallujah, Balad and Ramadi. The most recent attack was June 3 against Forward Operating Base Warhorse, in Diyala province. Again, a suicide car bomber launched the attack, and officials estimate it included two tanks of chlorine and 1,000 pounds of explosive. The cloud from the attack blew over Warhorse and sickened 65 servicemembers, Multinational Force Iraq officials said. All were examined and returned to duty.
Officials in Baghdad cannot tell from their records if anyone has died from chlorine inhalation. A Multinational Force Iraq spokesman said there are anecdotal reports that while the blasts from the attacks have killed, few have died solely from the gas. “We hear that an old man and some babies may have been killed, but we can’t pin that down,” the spokesman said. " (thanks Fadi)
Others claim their foreign captors tortured them, and the US government knew of or cooperated with the abuse.
"They say they were pressured to become FBI informants and, in some cases, told their names had been placed on the no-fly list and they couldn't return home until they answered the bureau's question. Some allege their American interrogators denied them access to legal representation. Others claim their foreign captors tortured them, and the US government knew of or cooperated with the abuse. Dozens of other Muslim Americans—including four who are the plaintiffs in a lawsuit filed against the government last week—were not detained, but say the government put them on the no-fly list to pressure them into talking to the FBI or working as FBI informants."
"we, the two surviving founders of Pink Floyd, have united in support of Boycott, Divestment, and Sanctions (BDS)"
"we, the two surviving founders of Pink Floyd, have united in support of Boycott, Divestment, and Sanctions (BDS), a growing, nonviolent global human rights movement initiated by Palestinian civil society in 2005 to end Israel's occupation, racial discrimination and denial of basic Palestinian rights. The BDS movement is modeled on the successful nonviolent movements that helped end Jim Crow in the American South and apartheid in South Africa." (thanks Amir)
The army of FBI informers
"The bureau's network of paid informants has expanded rapidly since 9/11, and now includes more than 15,000, rivaling the scale of the J. Edgar Hoover era."
House of Saud achievements
You can't accuse the Saudi regime of not advancing the welfare of its people.
The Open Letter to the UN on humanitarian aid to Syria
Personally, I believe that humanitarian aid to Syria or to any other country in the world should certainly bypass the ruling government, whatever it is. However, I noticed that this petition carried not one signature by an Arab lawyer and 2) those signatories, including that Zionist judge Richard Goldstone, would never ever dare to call for disregarding the Israeli government for delivering aid to the Palestinian people.
So who pioneered the use of barrel bombs? You guessed it: the Zionist terror gangs
From Robert: "No, the United States did not pioneer the use of barrel bombs. Zionist militias used them in the 1940s. Irgun Zwai Leumi appears to have started it off, against the British. ("Terror out of Zion," p.245).
Then Haganah used them as an instrument of terror in its campaign to ethnically cleanse Palestine. See Chapter 7 of "The Case for Palestine: An International Law Perspective" (originally published in 1990 as "Palestine and Israel: A Challenge to Justice") p. 59:
When they attacked Arab towns, Haganah units used barrels filed with explosives, a device that had been developed by the Irgun.(32) As explained by Leo Heiman, a Haganah officer, they sent these barrel bombs "crashing into the walls and doorways of Arab houses" to encourage the residents to flee. The bombs "exploded with a furious sound like an erupting volcano, sending up sheets of flame and pillars of nauseating smoke." Then the Haganah personnel brought up jeeps with loudspeakers which broadcast tape-recorded horror sounds. "These included shrieks, wails, and anguished moans of Arab women, the wail of sirens and clang of fire-alarm bells, interrupted by a sepulchral voice calling out in Arabic: 'Save your souls, all ye faithful! Flee for your lives! The Jews are using poison gas and atomic weapons. Run for your lives in the name of Allah'"(33)
(32) R. D. Wilson, Cordon and Search: With 6th Airborne Division in Palestine (1949),
pp. 144–147.
(33) Leo Heiman, All's Fair . . .," Marine Corps Gazette (June 1964), p. 37, at p. 39."
Then Haganah used them as an instrument of terror in its campaign to ethnically cleanse Palestine. See Chapter 7 of "The Case for Palestine: An International Law Perspective" (originally published in 1990 as "Palestine and Israel: A Challenge to Justice") p. 59:
When they attacked Arab towns, Haganah units used barrels filed with explosives, a device that had been developed by the Irgun.(32) As explained by Leo Heiman, a Haganah officer, they sent these barrel bombs "crashing into the walls and doorways of Arab houses" to encourage the residents to flee. The bombs "exploded with a furious sound like an erupting volcano, sending up sheets of flame and pillars of nauseating smoke." Then the Haganah personnel brought up jeeps with loudspeakers which broadcast tape-recorded horror sounds. "These included shrieks, wails, and anguished moans of Arab women, the wail of sirens and clang of fire-alarm bells, interrupted by a sepulchral voice calling out in Arabic: 'Save your souls, all ye faithful! Flee for your lives! The Jews are using poison gas and atomic weapons. Run for your lives in the name of Allah'"(33)
(32) R. D. Wilson, Cordon and Search: With 6th Airborne Division in Palestine (1949),
pp. 144–147.
(33) Leo Heiman, All's Fair . . .," Marine Corps Gazette (June 1964), p. 37, at p. 39."
Liz Sly and WINEP: call it telepathy about the Hazm Movement
From MT: "Have been trying to get a better handle of what on earth is going on in Syria and I have to say that with every google search search I do I become more horrified. Won’t bore you with the details as you know them better than I.
But one thing I found related to your favorite correspondent and mine, the aptly-named Liz Sly. I’m sure this is just a coincidence but in case you haven’t noticed:
Her propaganda piece on Harakat Hazm was issued on just one day before WINEP put out this article which reads like a paid-for advertisement for the group:
Like you, I was surprised at the weird translation of the name that the Sly one provided - “Movement of Steadfastness”. But, and I’m sure this is just a coincidence, I see that WINEP’s writer, Jeffrey White, provides “Steadfastness Movement” as his name for it. An odd rendering for Hazm, to be sure. But I figured that maybe, completely independently of course, Sly and White might have used the bible of American students who study Arabic, known as the Hans Wehr Dictionary, and searched through the many meanings for the word that Wehr provides and both - again completely independently of course - stumbled upon the word “steadfastness” under the many words Wehr usually gives for each Arabic entry. So I repaired to Wehr to see if “steadfastness”
was one of the words given as a possible interpretation for the noun Hazm, but alas, it was not to be found at all. Now was “to be steadfast” mentioned under the citation for the verb. Hmmm. So why would two different people come up with that word - an incorrect one at that? No doubt it is just a coincidence.
The actual content of the two articles does differ a great deal with WINEP’s providing details that make it sound like it created the movement itself and Sly’s sounding like a Washington Post Style Section feature on some sleazy movie or rock star, but both steadfastly - oh I made pun - maintain that Harakat Hazm is the kind of military organization the US can and should do business with cause they are so disciplined and not infected with Islamicist cooties. "
But one thing I found related to your favorite correspondent and mine, the aptly-named Liz Sly. I’m sure this is just a coincidence but in case you haven’t noticed:
Her propaganda piece on Harakat Hazm was issued on just one day before WINEP put out this article which reads like a paid-for advertisement for the group:
Like you, I was surprised at the weird translation of the name that the Sly one provided - “Movement of Steadfastness”. But, and I’m sure this is just a coincidence, I see that WINEP’s writer, Jeffrey White, provides “Steadfastness Movement” as his name for it. An odd rendering for Hazm, to be sure. But I figured that maybe, completely independently of course, Sly and White might have used the bible of American students who study Arabic, known as the Hans Wehr Dictionary, and searched through the many meanings for the word that Wehr provides and both - again completely independently of course - stumbled upon the word “steadfastness” under the many words Wehr usually gives for each Arabic entry. So I repaired to Wehr to see if “steadfastness”
was one of the words given as a possible interpretation for the noun Hazm, but alas, it was not to be found at all. Now was “to be steadfast” mentioned under the citation for the verb. Hmmm. So why would two different people come up with that word - an incorrect one at that? No doubt it is just a coincidence.
The actual content of the two articles does differ a great deal with WINEP’s providing details that make it sound like it created the movement itself and Sly’s sounding like a Washington Post Style Section feature on some sleazy movie or rock star, but both steadfastly - oh I made pun - maintain that Harakat Hazm is the kind of military organization the US can and should do business with cause they are so disciplined and not infected with Islamicist cooties. "
NED work in Venezuela
". According to NED’s 2013 annual report, the agency channeled more than $2.3 million to Venezuelan opposition groups and projects. Within that figure, $1,787,300 went directly to anti-government groups within Venezuela, while another $590,000 was distributed to regional organizations that work with and fund the Venezuelan opposition. More than $300,000 was directed towards efforts to develop a new generation of youth leaders to oppose Maduro’s government politically."" (thanks Christian)
ICC standards for investigating war crimes
""A communication seeking to accept the jurisdiction of the ICC over Egypt has been dismissed as not presented on behalf of the concerned State," the ICC said in a statement." (thanks Basim)
The New York TImes adds a fifth school of Sunni Jurisprudence
So we have Hanbalite, Hanafite, Maliki, and Shafi`i schools and the "pro-Western brand of Sunni Islam".
Brotherly Saudi people
The illiterate Saudi King yesterday referred to his people as "brotherly Saudi people", which is a term that normally refers to people in a neighboring country.
Thursday, May 01, 2014
It seems that US forces pioneered barrel bombs
"Helicopter-dropped barrel bombs have become a bloody hallmark of the Syrian civil war, but the idea has been around for at least 45 years. The U.S. used the tactic decades ago in Vietnam." (thanks Ali)
Marks of the Syrian "revolution"
"Two men were reportedly crucified in Raqqa on Tuesday, their bloody corpses displayed in the center of a town controlled by the most severe of Syria’s Islamist factions."
The George Cloony/NATO republic of South Sudan: Over 9,000 children have been recruited as soldiers
"Over 9,000 children have been recruited as soldiers in South Sudan's brutal four-month long civil war by both government and rebel forces, the UN's human rights chief said Wednesday."
(Read Four hundred thousand tons of napalm dropped
"The numbers are staggering. Thirty billion pounds of munitions spent. Seventy million liters of herbicidal agents (like Agent Orange) sprayed. Twenty-one million bomb craters created in the South. Four hundred thousand tons of napalm dropped." (thanks Amir)
Covert Operations by USAID
"As part of a program shrouded in secrecy to build a "Cuban Twitter" on the Communist-governed island, Cambronero profiled Cuban cellphone users, categorizing them as "pro-revolution," ''apolitical" or "anti-revolutionary." The social media network, paid for by the U.S. Agency for International Development [USAID], sought to undermine the Cuban government through cellphone text messaging to get around the island's Internet restrictions, The Associated Press detailed in an investigation published in early April."
a Lebanse child molesting priest about to be exonerated by the Pope
"Mansour Labaki, a Lebanese priest convicted of child molestation, is waiting for an official decision from the Vatican on his acquittal, his lawyer says.
“The case is not in the hand of the pope alone and based on documents we have, we are not surprised by media reports quoting Vatican sources that our client is innocent, but we are waiting for the official decision,” Antoine Akl, the lawyer of Labaki, said in a statement."
“The case is not in the hand of the pope alone and based on documents we have, we are not surprised by media reports quoting Vatican sources that our client is innocent, but we are waiting for the official decision,” Antoine Akl, the lawyer of Labaki, said in a statement."
It is only fitting
The right-wing, racist, and sectarian Christian newspaper, An-Nahar, whose best days are well behind her, campaigns child molesting priest in Lebanon (who was not even prosecuted and who was sentenced by the Church to "intensive prayers". Kid you not.
Anne Barnard pleas for more arms for Syrian rebels
It is amazing that Western correspondents in Beirut now openly call for arming (or more arming) of the Syrian rebels. Look at this story: the headline is about bombing by the Syrian regime and then it is followed immediately by this plea: "It was the type of attack that opposition figures seek to halt with a renewed push for military aid to defend against aerial bombardments. Leaders of the armed opposition and the main exile opposition coalition plan to travel to Washington next week to push the Obama administration to lift its objections to allowing antiaircraft missiles to flow to insurgents deemed to be moderate, coalition officials said on Wednesday.
The goal is to push for antiaircraft and antitank missiles “and to change the American public opinion” regarding support for Syria’s armed opposition, said Bahia Mardini, a media adviser to the exile body, the National Coalition of Syrian Revolutionary and Opposition Forces." And after Barnard finishes her job, she remembers that the day before the Syrian rebels also attacked a school but look how it is phrased: "The Aleppo bombing came a day after mortar shells struck a school in government-held Damascus, killing at least 14 people and wounding more than 80, and a separate mortar attack killed three children in a camp for the displaced in the Damascus suburb of Adra; state media blamed insurgents. The reported death toll rose to 100, including women and children, in a double bombing on Tuesday in a government-controlled area of Homs." But notice that in the case of the bombing by the rebels, she does not identify the side that did it as if it is a mystery.
The goal is to push for antiaircraft and antitank missiles “and to change the American public opinion” regarding support for Syria’s armed opposition, said Bahia Mardini, a media adviser to the exile body, the National Coalition of Syrian Revolutionary and Opposition Forces." And after Barnard finishes her job, she remembers that the day before the Syrian rebels also attacked a school but look how it is phrased: "The Aleppo bombing came a day after mortar shells struck a school in government-held Damascus, killing at least 14 people and wounding more than 80, and a separate mortar attack killed three children in a camp for the displaced in the Damascus suburb of Adra; state media blamed insurgents. The reported death toll rose to 100, including women and children, in a double bombing on Tuesday in a government-controlled area of Homs." But notice that in the case of the bombing by the rebels, she does not identify the side that did it as if it is a mystery.
MESA and the disgrace
It is unbelievable that the Asian Studies Association and the American Studies Association took a stand in favor of BDS but the Middle East Studies Association is too afraid to even touch the topic.
Subscribe to:
Posts (Atom)
