Friday, November 30, 2012
On Clerics, `Ulama', and Fuquha`
Comrade Joseph on the UN vote
By recognising a diminished Palestinian state, the vote effectively abandons the UN understanding of the "Jewish state" as one that has no right to discriminate against or ethnically cleanse non-Jews. The new arrangement confers the blessing of this international forum on the Israeli understanding of what a "Jewish state" entails– namely, the actually existing legal discrimination and ethnic cleansing practised by Israel –as acceptable. That this occurred on 29 November, the date of the partition plan, reiterates this date as one of continuing defeats for the Palestinians who continue to suffer from Israel's colonial laws, and repeats UN guilt in denying Palestinians their rights not to suffer dispossession and racism. The Palestinians, however, whose majority is not represented by the PA, will no more heed this new partition plan than they did the last one and will continue to resist Israeli colonialism until it comes to an end and until Israel becomes a state for all its citizens with equal rights to all regardless of national, religious, or ethnic background."
Lies of Israel about Paper Dome
" Some American technical experts also say they want hard evidence before judging whether Iron Dome knocked out as many rockets as Israel has claimed. Iron Dome’s most salient feature, according to American experts now examining after-action reports from Gaza, may well be its software...
But some antimissile experts have expressed doubt about Israeli claims for Iron Dome, which is built by Israeli defense firms but has received about $275 million in financial support from the United States. Bright flashes can create a visual impression of overwhelming interceptor success, when in fact they may represent nothing more than the interceptor warhead blowing up, these skeptics warn.
“I’ve met the guys in Israel, and they’re smart,” said Richard M. Lloyd, an antimissile expert with more than a dozen patents and two major textbooks on warhead design to his credit. “But I’m not seeing the things I want to see” to prove that Iron Dome actually succeeded to the extent described by Israel.
Mr. Lloyd, who works for Tesla Laboratories Inc., a defense contractor in Arlington, Va., said he had studied dozens of publicly available photographs of spent rockets that landed on Israel. Few of them, he said, showed signs of damage from Iron Dome’s exploding warhead and the specific mechanism by which the interceptor is designed to make its kill — a dense spray of speeding metal fragments.". But notice that the headline of this piece only implies success.
http://www.nytimes.com/2012/11/30/world/middleeast/israeli-success-in-downing-hamas-rockets-has-worlds-attention.html?pagewanted=2&ref=todayspaper&pagewanted=all&pagewanted=print
Protests against the Free Syrian Army in Syria
"بدنا الجيش الاسلامي، الجيش الحر حرامي"
This, of course, won't be reported in the US press
talk of the nation
Burning Israeli flag in Bahrain
![In protest against the recent Israeli war on Gaza, Bahraini lawmaker Osama Al-Tamimi, torches the Jewish state’s flag in parliament. (Photo courtesy Gulf News) In protest against the recent Israeli war on Gaza, Bahraini lawmaker Osama Al-Tamimi, torches the Jewish state’s flag in parliament. (Photo courtesy Gulf News)](http://web.archive.org./web/20240605053630im_/http://images.alarabiya.net/59/94/640x392_87477_252418.jpg)
"Bahraini MP, Osama Al-Tamimi, smuggled in fuel in parliament to torch the Israeli flag without any warning, the UAE-based Gulf News reported Wednesday." (thanks Sultan)
What Israel shares with the US?
Informal US role
Even Sweden heart House of Saud
Turkey which is keen on minority rights in Syria...
British civilization
Time plagiarizer is back: the counts GCC countries as seclar states
Mossad recruits in Saudi Arabia now
Insulting Sunni Islam
This is what I call an independent and sovereign opposition that the Syrian people can be proud of
Hizbullah in Syria
This is what the Muslim Brotherhood means by Jihad
This is how the New York Times counts the dead among Palestinians
Lies of the Times
A ballot with no choice: this is what the US and GCC engineered in Yemen
![](http://web.archive.org./web/20240605053630im_/http://sphotos-a.xx.fbcdn.net/hphotos-snc7/432340_10151142588088372_427194308_n.jpg)
No Victory for Palestine: Abbas’ Farewell Speech at the UN
Thursday, November 29, 2012
I Call On You
“I call on you
I press your hands
I kiss the ground under your feet
and I say: I sacrifice myself for you
I give you as a gift
the light of my eyes
and the warmth of heart, I give you
My tragedy that I live
Is my share of your tragedies
I call on you
I press your hands
I kiss the ground under your feet
and I say: I sacrifice myself for you
I did not humiliate myself in my homeland
and I did not lower my shoulders
I stood facing my oppressors
orphaned, naked, and bare foot
I call on you
I press your hands
I kiss the ground under your feet
and I say: I sacrifice myself for you
I carried my blood on my palm
I never lowered my flags
and I cared for the green grass
over the graves of my ancestors”
Don't be deceived
Who Voted "NO" on Palestine at the UN
How could he not not tell Obama?
10,000 Palestinian women arrested by Israel since 1948
Why can't Israel enjoy war crimes, says the UK
She communicated with Electronic Ali: it means she needs an adult to supervise her work
Saudi repression
Arab oil money
Saudi services to US government
Israeli science teachers trained not to teach evolution
science in the service of freedom
What US media would not report about Israeli crimes
But the New York Times insists that they obtained the weapons on their own from Syrian warehouses
Armed groups in Aleppo and Idlib
Please identify the seculars among the Syrian armed rebels
![](http://web.archive.org./web/20240605053630im_/http://www.assafir.com/Photos/Photos29-11-2012/254387492.jpg)
I would argue that the man second from left is a true, hard-core secular that the US can safely transport arms to. Yalla.
secular and demcoratic children--I am sure
Human Rights Watch--unless they are by Israel
The spokesperson of the Israeli terrorist army on why shooting at journalists is justified
Look at the audacity of the US and Israel: they don't want the PA to complain about war crimes by Israel and they make it clear
The New York Times' caption under the picture of the Gaza girls
I am dying to know this: who are the "secular opposition groups supported by the West" who are fighting in Syria? Give me one name, or one unit? Who?
car bombs by allies of the US
This is what Arab regimes like to support: this is a Lebanese disease that is spreading in the region
Gulf oil money and the University of Exeter
Tune in: the Hariri-`Uqab Saqr secret tapes
Egyptians were quick to parody Time magazine cover
![](http://web.archive.org./web/20240605053630im_/http://sphotos-a.xx.fbcdn.net/hphotos-ash3/574508_10151338552036125_413415745_n.jpg)
This is what Karl Marx would describe as a full revolutionary situation in Syria
The noble motives of the US in Syria
Muhammad Mursi bows down to Obama
Qatar repression: the Emir who wants to bring democracy to the Arabs sentences a man for life for a poem that offended him
Shari`ah: keep it away from us
"فلو وصلت شرائعهم إلينا, على ما نحن فيه من مجونِ. لأصبحت النساء بلا أنوف وأصبحت الرجال بلا عيونِ"
Dubai International Film Festival
Wednesday, November 28, 2012
Anne Barnard has meticulous methods of documentation
Hizbullah in the Syrian conflict
Marj Al-Sultan airbase
Marj al-Sultan helicopter airbase, was already abandoned in the moment when it was attacked. All the military helicopters there, even those under maintenance with most of the airbase personnel, (pilots, weaponizing and maintenance teams), except the soldiers charged of protecting the place, and all the air defense weapons and all the ammunition have been transported to another airbase (I keep the name uncovered for understandable reasons) few months ago and that only one helicopter in retirement was left behind (and this is actually the helicopter that appeared in the videos distributed by the rebels). Asking him about the radar station that was destroyed by the armed groups, he said that the situation isn't catastrophic the way I think and that the destroyed radar system wasn’t a critical part of the aerial reconnaissance system and that it has been superseded, long time ago, by more sophisticated systems that work safely."
PS This is Angry Arab. But would the Syrian regime admit otherwise, if true?
Caught lying
From akram: " Dear Mr. Abou Khalil:
Yesterday midnight, while I was enjoying an American movie during an exceptionally quiet night, a friend called me saying that al-Arabyia, the lousy House of Saud’s propagandist TV station (both lousy actually), followed directly by Sky News Arabic, was displaying, with bold font on a red background, the following “Breaking News”: Intense clashes in al-Abassyieen quarter (this is exactly where I live)
This isn’t the first time al-Arabyia is caught red-handed. We all remember its scandalous Syria leaks fabrications. But this time, I caught it lying... personally... not analytically, nor have been told through someone else."
Look at this wisdom on foreign policy
Can you imagine the uproar and mockery if this was a Muslim organization?
Zionists for Morsi
"New Berkeley chancellor must renounce divestment position!"
Freedom fighters for the US
Those injuries don't get counted like Israeli "shock" injuries
Canadian Foreign Policy
Freedom fighting by clients of the US/Saudi Arabia/Qatar
The new Hamas
Part of this war criminal's resumé here(Arabic)."
PS The other person to the right of Haniyyah is a most unsavory character, Lebanese Hariri MP, Jamal Al-Jarrah. (Incidentally, he is the uncle of Ziad Jarrah.) Jarrah used to help `Abdul-Halim Khaddam hide his wealth and cars.
Guess the country in question, please
How Israel counts its injured
Harford gave the only meaningful figure up to that day (before the ceasefire) which was deaths: Israelis 5 Palestinians 162."
If this was a Muslim....
Those poor FSA gangs
Israeli humane behavior
Aljazeera: the funny network
Western car bombs
Daily Star
King Abdullah Inter-faith Dialogue center does not want people to know that there is an Israeli on its board
Who runs Saudi Arabia?
US embassy in Cairo
"Sunni leaders gaining clout in the Middle East"
When conventional US media wisdom is just patantly false
Tuesday, November 27, 2012
Zionist propaganda trickery in the New York Times: the false symmetry trick
Take this quizz
![](http://web.archive.org./web/20240605053630im_/http://www.al-akhbar.com/sites/default/files/imagecache/465img/p20_20121127_pic2.jpg)
Here is a fighter from the Free Syrian Army. Is he secular?
Brought to you by the press offices of Hariri and their allies among the pro-Saudi and pro-Qatari gangs in Syria
A call for self-government in Syria
Is it Qadri Jamil himself the "political editor" who wrote this?"
friends of Feltman
achievements of the Israeli terrorist army
the new NATO Libya
Ahmad Mu`adh Al-Khatib: now the Zionists are not so sure anymore
nuking the moon
back in business
A coup to pre-empt a coup
From paper to digital
Zionism is always racism
Yusuf Qaradawi: chief of Islamist clerical kooks
Prince Hamzah of Jordan
Map of control between Syrian regime and armed groups in Damascus
- I can’t explain the difference between the light and the dark degrees of the same color. Dos the darker color mean tougher control? I can’t tell.
- Important part of the countryside of Damascus is absent from the map: al-Kalamoun Plateau located to the north of Damascus (on the map to the above al-Tall). This plateau contains many major towns:
- Seidnaya, Ma’aloula: Christian majority, label is green though the roads to these towns are dangerous.
- Yabroud, Qara: Christian-Muslim, dominated by local militias with some unwritten understanding with the military. In Yabroud for example, as I’ve been told, the gunmen organize the traffic within the town!!!
- Nabeq, Deir ‘Attyia: Christian-Muslim, label is green
- The term “controlled” should be taken in its relative meaning which varies with each case:
- In areas colored with red the presence of the government is reduced to the “long arm” of the air force and the artillery and to the basic services that can be described as remote (drinking water and sewerage, electricity and telecom) when they are available. I also can tell that the government is still supplying flour to the bakeries and the government employees are still receiving their salaries even in cases where they can’t reach their workplaces (schools, municipalities, police stations,…). While the armed groups are deployed extensively in these areas, they can’t (and possibly they don't care to) impose a government-like authority, even if they claim the contrary, though they roam these towns and between them with their 4x4 vehicles or set up roadblocks and checkpoints and inspect the passing cars.
- The case of Jobar: Jobar, located in the eastern part of Damascus, is, administratively, one of the Syrian capital’ neighborhoods, but from both demographic and urban-texture points of view, it can be considered a separated town that belongs to the countryside more than to the city itself (if you look at Google Maps you can see that it’s connected to the neighboring town of Zamalka (which, in turn, is connected to Irbeen and so on, while it’s separated from Damascus by a tiny open terrain). Until three or four months ago, Jobar was under the full control of the regime, but since then, it started to be infiltrated by the armed groups, with few gunmen in the first days, then with tens and then with hundreds or perhaps thousands (I can’t tell) under the nose of the lcorrupt security forces and with collaboration of sympathized residents. However, it’s hard to say that Jobar is a red area. Labeling it with blue would be more accurate (at least for the time being).
- The case of Jaramana: Jaramana is a town located to the east of Damascus and is mainly resided by Christians and Druze (the readers can refer to some of my previous post about this town). The green in the case of Jaramana means that the town is under the control of the Popular Committees (local armed groups who bear the responsibility of protecting their own town with very loose coordination with the security forces). The municipality and the other public services are fully operable.
- The case of Zabadani: this town is located to the north east of Damascus bordering Lebanon (the upper-left corner of the map) in the heart of an area known for its touristic advantages (Bloudan, Boukein, …). As far as I know, the town is controlled partially by local militias and it’s better to be labeled with blue.
- Some places labeled with blue can’t be considered “under mixed control”, but rather under no control. They resemble the Wild West of the 19th century more than anything else where law is enforced selectively and with a discretionary manner by local armed groups of both sides and random killing, looting and mutual kidnapping (for ransom or for hostage exchange) are very common practices committed by all parties and by security personnel working on their own. This case applied particularly on Qadam, Haoush Blass, Sbeineh (located in the map center).
- I can’t describe myself as a military expert nor do I pretend that I know every in the battleground, but he are some remarks that must be taken with great cautious:
- The human losses of both sides (and among the civilians of course) are much, much, much bigger than it is announced. Each side knows very good its own losses and the losses of the other side but they are accomplice to hide the exact numbers. It’s also amazing to notice that the number 30-39 thousands dead, , circulated in the international media, is still steadfast for several months without being challenged by any of the regime’s backers or enemies. Is this the limit that the great forces (US, Russia) can bear before they feel the need to intervene to stop the this senseless massacre in Syria.
- Large part of Damascus countryside is under the rebels de facto control. For the Syrian regime, the first concern for the moment is to keep “the core” Damascus (excluding Jobar which is officially part of the “city”) under its firm control, while the outskirts (except Jaramana) remain a battleground of an endless number of attacks and counter-attacks that continue until the regime falls or an international solution matures."
Cover of Ka`bah
Chants from Cairo
"On the occasion of revolutionary crowds back in public squares in Egypt, I thought you would enjoy some quality chants. A couple are great and a few are severely lame:
- احلق دقنك، بيّن عارك، تلقى وجهك وجه مبارك(shave your beard, show your shame. Find your face like that of Mubarak)
- علي وعلي وعلي الصوت، دول عايزين الثورة تموت(Raise, raise raise your voice. They want the revolution to die)
- قالوا حرية وقالوا دستور جابوا مرسى الديكتاتور(They said freedom and said constitution but brought Mursi the dictator).
- أول قراراته الثورية شال السلطة القضائية (His first revolutionary decision is to remove the judicial authority).
- الإخوان المسلمين باعوا الثورة وباعوا الدين (The Muslim Brothers sold the revolution and sold the religion).
cyber learning
Muslim Brotherhood of Jordan: savior of the monarchy
Extremism and reform in Jordan
Monday, November 26, 2012
Why don't they just retire? Why don't Saudi prince stay in the job no matter what?
How Bashshar Al-Asad spends his day
The Intellect of Prince Salman
Prince Salman calls for writing the history of Saudi Arabia through the telephone.
Neil MacFarquhar and Arabic
uncovered news
![](http://web.archive.org./web/20240605053630im_/http://www.alquds.co.uk/today/25qpt955.jpg)
I am sure that you did not know that a march of tens of thousands of people took place in Morocco in solidarity with the Palestinian people.
This is a big headline in Al-Quds Al-Arabi
Sunni-Shi`ite conflict in Kabul
sterilizing the people of Gaza
Traitors and collaborators are the only Palestinians liked by the West
Jim Muir of the BBC
BBC and the Palestinians
rulebook
quiet: notice that he only says that after Hamas began to accept the two-state non-solution
Hamas and Iran
split in Hamas
full withdrawal from Afghanistan
Lousy Syrian regime repression
Mursi and his clan
He is not a racist, just a candid Zionist
Boxes & Briefs reported Friday about a photo posted by Dratwa on his Facebook profile, which depicted him posing with brown mud on his face under the caption “Obama Style.”
Dratwa appears to have since removed the photo, but maintains that he has always been “completely candid about [his] beliefs and ha[s] nothing to hide.”" (thanks Emily)
Re: Neil MacFarquhar inaccuracy re Syria
"Neil MacFarquhar inaccuracy re Syria
Contrast and compare
Neil says: “only eight foreign aid organizations to operate”
European Union say: “granted formal approval to 8 additional International Non-Governmental Organisations”
Neil MacFarquhar in the NYT “Cold Ravages Syria Refugees as Aid Falters” November 24, 2012
Says;
“The Syrian government has allowed only eight foreign aid organizations to operate; all were already working in Syria before the uprising started in March 2011, helping Iraqi refugees.”
European Union HIP (Humanitarian Implementation Plan Syria Crises) Version 2 update 20/07/12 ECHO/SYR/BUD/2012/91000
Says;
“Despite the escalation of fighting and access concerns, humanitarian assistance is steadily scaling up and is now being mobilised and implemented. The Government of Syria (GoS) has by and large delivered on its commitment to facilitate humanitarian aid (made in June at the 3rd Syria Humanitarian Forum) and the Syrian Arab Red Crescent (SARC) has granted formal approval to 8 additional International Non-Governmental Organisations (INGOs) to work in Syria, expanding the number of possible implementing partners in the country (namely Action Contre La Faim, Première Urgence, Danish Refugee Council, International Medical Corps, Help, Institut Européen de Coopération et de Développement, Secours Islamique France, Terres des Hommes-Italy).”
Note to As’ad: I attach a copy of the European Union’s Humanitarian Implementation Plan - Syria Crises document as the updated revised edition has removed this reference, perhaps it is seen as to favourable toward the Syrian government / regime."