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Saudis and US: Dog and Tail
2008-07-11 05:47:00 Excellent commenter Lafayette Sennacherib suggests that the Saudis are in fact clients of the US. I disagree. LS: You talk about 'the Saudis' as if they were independent operators; they're not - they wouldn't last a minute without US support, same too with the elites in Egypt and Jordan.And most accounts suggest that Wahabbism is quite separate from the Saudi royal families; it's something they've made an accommodation with - they let them have their way in 'moral matters' to keep them quiet. I don't have the answers, but for 'Saudis' ultimately read ' US' elites - they have to do what they're told in the end. To what end, I don't know. To which I respond: Right, but what you mean when you say that they would not last a minute without US support is that the US for all intents and purposes is propping up an unpopular regime. It is unpopular because it is so pro-US! If it goes, you get radical Islam bigtime. Hamas X 10. You get more or less Al Qaeda in power in Arabia....
By: Robert Lindsay
On Immigration
2008-06-14 05:19:00 Updated June 18:We have quite a few folks coming to this blog who are opposed to immigration. To be honest, almost everyone in the US who is opposed to immigration is White, and to some extent, it's associated with White nationalism.There are also anti-immigrant sites out there like Vdare, but they are almost always on the crazy end of the spectrum. Vdare is not White nationalist, but they do want to end all immigration altogether. On the far moderate end of White nationalism, we have American Renaissance. I do like to hang out there because it's nice to hear real, honest talk on race for once.In general, the White nationalists on Amren want to end non-White immigration altogether.I'd like to point out that this is a crazy and extremist point of view. Furthermore, Whites are only 65% of the US in 2006 according to this chart, and possibly less. 2% of the US is Muslim, and the overwhelming majority are not Europeans. Another .5% of the population are Indian-Americans. 1% of the po...
By: Robert Lindsay
East Jerusalem Arabs detail violence they face by city's Jews
2008-05-31 15:18:00 Last month's attack by a Jewish mob on Arab youths got ample press, but shouldn't be considered an isolated incident. In fact, Arab residents of Jerusalem, particularly taxi drivers, detail a pattern of racially-motivated violent acts by religious Jews. The drivers from East Jerusalem call the... Click on the headlines to read the full story!
NH Middle School Celebrating ?Open Tent? Day ? Kids Dress Like Arabs
2008-05-31 00:00:00 -By Warner Todd Huston Only in the west can one see a school that hosts a day when school children are encouraged to dress like, act like, and “learn about” those trying to kill them and all in a day that the country is in the midst of war. And only in the west would the ...
By: Publius Forum
Boycott: Don't Shop at Dunkin' Donuts! : Say No to Anti-Arab Racism
2008-05-30 04:07:00 **Please circulate widely** Dunkin Donuts pulled this advertisement after right-wing racists complained that the scarf in the ad was a kaffiyeh. The ANSWER... Click on the headlines to read the full story!
Emerging Pattern Alert: Another Obama Adviser Speaks Out Against Jewish Sup
2008-05-28 13:00:00 Beginning to See a Pattern Alert: Another Obama Adviser Speaks Out Against Jewish Supporters of Israel. Barack Obama Adviser Zbigniew Brzezinski Gets His Facts Wrong While Accusing Jewish Group of ?McCarthyism?.
By: Webloggin
From Where Arabs Get their Food?
2008-05-26 00:00:00 Regarding the raising of prices in the Middle East, Islam Online published a new special Arabic page talking about how Arabs get their food.. Enjoy! . . [ad#squar]
By: My Life Thinking
JEWS AND ARABS ARE UNITED-ISRAEL'S WRONGS MUST BE RIGHTED
2008-05-25 04:23:00 A photo report - click on photos to enlarge See also: A-Channel news video here OTTAWA: On May 20, members of a local coalition of Jews, Arabs and others showed up at the National Arts Centre's "Israel@60" event to let the NAC symphony orchestra and their fans know that there is nothing to... Click on the headlines to read the full story!
Thomas Friedman Misleads Jews on Full Obama Picture By Clever Omission
2008-05-21 03:53:00 Tom Friedman, man of the New York Times, writes to assure American Jews that Obama is no threat whatsoever to Israel?s security. His column is a nasty little piece of work, not for what it says, but for what it doesn?t say. It opens with a series of scare quotations purported from Barack Obama, all ...
By: Webloggin
Death to Arabs Msg on Israeli Money
2008-05-21 00:00:00 A citizen of ancient inhabitants Acre was surprised when he found these words "Death to Arabs" written on a 100 shekels when he went recently to the bank in the old city for money withdrawn, which is considered a provocative speech to the Arab people. He immediately directed to some news ...
By: My Life Thinking
Bush lectures Arab world on political reform, women?s rights
2008-05-18 18:06:00 SHARM EL-SHEIK, Egypt (AP) - President Bush lectured the Arab world Sunday about everything from political repression to the denial of women’s rights but ran into Palestinian complaints he is favoring Israel in stalled Mideast peace talks. “Freedom and peace are within your grasp,” Bush said despite scant signs of progress. Winding up a five-day trip ...
By: TexasFred's
The Myth of the Occupied Territories
2008-05-18 03:18:00 I?m beginning to think that incrementalism is one of the most dangerous things out there, whether it?s the way Obama leaks out the truth about his big lies or the way in which the jihadists keep asking for little things from us ? no pigs, no dogs, no occupied territories. As to that latter ...
By: Webloggin
Crazy Arabs On Two Wheels
2008-05-17 20:33:00 Crazy video form somewhere in middle east. They make it seem so easy to drive a car on two wheels. Takes some crazy persons to something like that. Enjoy and be safe
By: Staring At
Israeli anthem: not for Arabs
2008-05-15 19:45:00 The left is necessarily hypocritical, as its simplified, partisan pronouncements diverge with the world?s complex realities. Russian communists proclaimed international workers? solidarity and fought those same workers; European socialists trumpet workers? rights and then organize in trade unions to exclude foreign labor. American democratic socialists trumpet welfare for all, but provide it to interest groups ...
By: Samson Blinded
Arabs and the West Stands Mute While Lebanon is Hijacked by Hezbollah
2008-05-14 02:56:00 As tough the talk has been against Iran by Doublethink Dubya, now when he has something to complain about, he is all but silent. Are the Neocons in Washington and Tel Aviv planning to sacrifice Lebanon to allow a pretext to attack Iran? Or is the US military really on it's last legs and Israel already defeated by Hezbollah? Los Angeles Times Shaken by a Hezbollah military offensive in recent days, Lebanon's pro-Western parties have launched an intensive campaign to lobby allies in Washington, Europe and the Arab world to intervene diplomatically or even militarily on their behalf, officials here said. But there was little sign Monday that the West was prepared to intervene. [..]"Yes, we are maintaining a watchful eye on the area, but not any more than we have been recently," a Defense official in Washington told The Times, speaking on condition of anonymity. Israel bombed Hezbollah for 33 days in 2006 without significantly reducing the militia's fighting power or audacity. ...
The Arabs in Time 100
2008-05-02 12:25:00 Ok folks it is our annual date with the Time 100 list , the most influential people in the year 2008 . This year there is no Egyptian in the list but there are Arabs . Here are the Arabs who made it this year: "arranged respectively" 1- Muqtada Al-Sadr in rank No.13 : Whether you like him or not , he is giving the Americans hard time in Iraq "The profile is written by General Ricardo Sanchez" 2-Sheikh Mohammed Al-Maktoum in rank no.30 : To tell the truth ,I do not like this man , I do not know why , yes Dubai is great and so on but after several incidents like the French boy and also a similar Case of an Egyptian lady "The profile is written by Scott Macleod, Egypt and Middle East correspondent of Time Magazine" 3- Madeeha Hasan Odhaib in rank no.32 : I have never heard about this astonishing Iraqi woman , I think what she had done shows that there is still hope in Iraq "The profile is written by Queen Rania of Jordan" 4- Ali Al Naimi...
Call to Arabs on Palestinian aid
2008-05-02 11:15:00 Gaza has faced fuel shortages for monthsThe Quartet of major powers mediating in the Middle East peace process has called on Arab states to honour aid pledges to the Palestinians.
By: Get rich
10 Lies The Arabs Want To Sell You As The Truth
2008-04-20 16:41:00 1) Lie: That Abraham was the first Muslim. Truth: Abraham was the first Jew. The Muslims came into being more than thousand years later. 2) Lie: That the Arabs are descendants of Ishmael, the son of Abraham. Truth: The descendants of Ishmael lived till about the year 1,000 C.E. Then they died out. 3) Lie: That the Arabs are ...
By: Shimshon 9
10 Lies The Arabs Want To Sell You As The Truth
2008-04-20 16:41:00 1) Lie: That Abraham was the first Muslim. Truth: Abraham was the first Jew. The Muslims came into being more than thousand years later. 2) Lie: That the Arabs are descendants of Ishmael, the son of Abraham. Truth: The descendants of Ishmael lived till about the year 1,000 C.E. Then they died out. 3) Lie: That the Arabs are ...
By: Shimshon 9
[Obvious] 8 out of 10 Arabs have an unfavorable view of the U.S., prefer th
2008-04-15 08:59:00 Yahoo
Arabs must take a long, self-critical look in the mirror
2008-04-09 03:40:00 I wonder what it would have been like to be alive way back when… There was a time centuries ago in Arab countries when intellectual introspection was common and the culture produced searching, self-critical scholarship in various arenas. That time is gone. Today, brave and questioning souls like Irshad Manji, who call for an Islamic Reformation, receive ...
Alienating Arabs
2008-04-08 22:50:00 If Saudi Arabia and the other Gulf states end up cutting their ties to the dollar, secure in the knowledge their petro-economies would emerge stronger from the upheaval, the process might well have begun in the summer of last year — when Dick Cheney tried to line up Arab support for an attack on Iran. You ...
Rabbi Eliyahu: Life of one yeshiva boy worth more than 1,000 Arabs
2008-04-05 17:23:00 Sudhan @17:25 CET Ynetnews, April 4, 2008 Rabbi Eliyhau Photo: Gil Yohanan Mass Jerusalem service marks one-month anniversary of deadly attack on Mercaz Harav rabbinical seminary. ?We do not seek vengeance, we seek retaliation,? says yeshiva head says Some 1,000 people attended a memorial service at the Mercaz Harav rabbinical seminary Thursday, marking the ...
By: Suzie-Q
Arabs without oil hard hit by food price spiral
2008-04-03 22:50:00 While Gulf Arab oil producers reap windfall earnings, their poorer cousins elsewhere in the Arab world are struggling with soaring energy and food bills. Inflation has surged in Gulf countries, fueled partly by lavish spending of record oil and gas revenues. This is also spurring demand for everything from housing to power and water. Gulf states with currencies pegged to the dollar have also been hit by the global weakness of the U.S. currency, which is driving inflation by making some imports more expensive. But wrestling with rising prices is a grimmer business in Arab capitals not cushioned by oil wealth. weigh the fiscal costs of subsidizing fuel and food against the explosive political risks of social discontent" href="http://www.reuters.com/ar-ticle/worldNews/idUSL2748279120-080403?pageNumber=1&virtual-BrandChannel=0">From Cairo in Egypt to Sanaa in Yemen, mostly authoritarian governments have to weigh the fiscal costs of subsidizing fuel and food against the explosive politi...
[Obvious] Saudi king: Let?s get Arabs, Jews and Christians together in Riya
2008-04-02 18:52:00 (AKI)
Understanding Arabs
2008-03-24 13:40:00 In her new book, Sandra Mackey uses the calamity that is Lebanon to provide some useful insights to the Arab world she knows well. Mirror of the Arab World is well worth reading with the caveat that Mackey has bought into the view that Israel does not have any right to exist. For her it is always “Zionist” Israel in much the same way Arab news media always refers to “occupied Jerusalem.” Even with her sympathy for Arabs, she does a pretty good job of showing them at their worst. Granted, this does not take a lot of effort. Is there a day that goes by when the civil war in Iraq does not produce more Shia and Sunni dead bodies? The Kurds, isolated and armed to the teeth, have managed to keep other Iraqis from destroying their hold on a significant portion of that nation’s oil. Read More…
By: 1913 Intel
The Jews VS the Arabs
2008-03-23 02:23:00 A Brief History of the Palestinian-Israeli Conflict The Jewish people who now occupy a majority of ancient Palestine have been in conflict with their neighbours since the days of the Bible. It was around 1400 B.C., when Moses led the Hebrew slaves out of Egypt into Judea (Israel), the so-called “promised land”. According to the Bible, the land was promised to Abraham, Isaac and Jacob making it the possession of the Hebrews. The region however has been conquered under the various reigns of different empires like the Greek, the Roman, the Byzantine and the Ottoman empires, who continually robbed the Jews of their “promised land”. After the Romans destroyed Jerusalem in 70 A.D., the Jewish state came to an end and the Hebrew (Jewish) people were dispersed. In the 1890’s, Jews driven by Zionism to establish a modern Jewish nation-state flocked back to their ancient biblical homeland in British controlled Palestine, eventually to become embroiled in the modern day conflict b...
Scholar of Arabic, Yehoshu`a Porat: The Arabs Don't Want a "palestinian sta
2008-03-16 18:34:00 The weakly argued claim by the White House-State Department crowd that what they call a "palestinian state" will bring peace between Israel and the Arab world, is belied by Professor Yehoshu`a Porat, one of the outstanding Israeli specialists on the Arab world, Arab culture, and Arab politics. Porat discussed this issue with Haggai Segal of Maqor Rishon [14 III 2008].Porat was a leader of the "leftist" Merets party until he learned about the 1993 Oslo Accord, an agreement made with Norwegian mediation, by the way [I add parenthetically that Norwegian involvement is usually disastrous, as Sri Lanka has also learned]. Porat did not trust the PLO leadership nor did he like the terms of the Oslo Accord. He belonged to Merets because of his arch-secularist views, not because he believed in "peace" with the PLO. Responding to the interviewer's question, he laughed at those Israeli politicians, particularly ministers in the present government, who believe that the PLO and/or Hamas and the...
By: Emet m\'Tsiyon
Tzadik of Meah Shearim ATTACKED BY ARABS!
2008-03-13 23:28:00 by Akiva at Mystical Paths(Exclusive to Mystical Paths!)The Breslov Tzaddik of Meah Shearim (Jerusalem, Israel) and author of the popular Jewish sefer The Garden of Emunah, HaRav HaTzaddik HaChossid Rav Shalom Arush, shlita, was attacked together with his 18 year old son, Moshe Dovid, while in intense prayer for Klal Yisroel at Kever Shmuel HaNavi (the tomb of the biblical prophet Samuel) in Jerusalem, yesterday around 11:30 AM (or so).A group of Arabs came upon the Rav during prayer at the holy site and began to viciously assault him. As his son heard the cries and came to defend his father, the group turned upon the son and directed the full force of their attacks, severely beating him.The son's wounds were of sufficient severity to require hospitalization. The Tzaddik himself refused treatment, and was seen briefly slowing and painfully making his way in and out of his yeshiva in Meah Shearim today.With this attack, as with many "small" attacks now occurring throughout Israel,...
By: Mystical Paths
Israel and Arabs - Bracing for the big one
2008-03-13 20:10:00 Despite a short, tantalising lull in Gaza, a wider war may be on the way Can a respite be turned into something more durable? Much more hangs on the answer to this question than you may think. From afar?indeed, even from Tel Aviv?the makeshift rockets that land on Israeli border towns such as Sderot can look ...
By: 1913 Intel
Settler Criminals Not Innocent Civilians
2008-03-10 11:55:00 Via Joachim Martillo, we have this interesting piece, Settler Criminals Not Innocent Civilians, on the attack on the Yeshivat Merkaz haRav in Jerusalem that killed 8 young Israeli male yeshiva students. There are some errors in this piece.Yohai Livshitz and Neria Cohen are from Jerusalem, but according to Martillo, they both live in land colonized by the Israelis in East Jerusalem after 1967. This never-ending theft of Palestinian land in East Jerusalem is an ongoing project that is rarely remarked on in the US press. Like most settler issues, it gets orders of magnitude more press in Israel than the US. In this sense, the US is much more of a "Jewish state" than Israel.Although Martillo justifies this attack, I have a hard time doing so. The attacker definitely picked a pretty good target, but the problem is that half of the students are minors. If it can be proven that these young men were involved in violence against Palestinians in the Territories, perhaps that makes them a targ...
By: Robert Lindsay
Academic freedom? Not for Arabs in Israel
2008-03-06 22:38:00 by Jonathan Cook in Nazareth In the strange world of Israeli academia, an Arab college lecturer is being dismissed from his job because he refused to declare his “respect for the uniform of the Israeli army”. The bizarre demand was made of Nizar Hassan, director of several award-winning films, after he criticised a Jewish student who arrived in his film studies class at Sapir College in the Negev for wearing his uniform and carrying a gun. The incident raises disturbing questions about the freedom of Israeli academics, sheds light on the veneration of the military in Israeli public life, and exposes the close, verging on incestuous, ties between the army and Israeli academia. Meanwhile, for many of Israel’s 1.2 million Palestinian citizens, who are nearly a fifth of the country’s population, Hassan’s treatment confirms their fears that decades of discrimination, especially in higher education, are far from over. Hassan has faced a storm of criticism, including claims that h...
3 Arabs in east Jerusalem indicted for attack on municipal workers
2008-03-06 18:13:00 A few days ago, there was an attempted lynch by Arabs in east Jerusalem against two municipal workers travelling there in their car. Now, three men have been arrested in the case: (IsraelNN.com) Three Arab men from Jerusalem have been indicted for an attack on two municipal workers earlier in the week. The men were indicted for deliberately endangering life in a transportation lane, assault, and
By: Tel-Chai Nation
The war of Muslims against Muslims; Arabs against Arabs
2008-02-20 18:17:00 Following up on our GLORIA dispatch, ?Who Owns the Palestine Card? in which a high-ranking Iranian official claims the battle against Israel as a Shia and non-Palestinian monopoly?comes a Hamas statement which also indicates the deep divisions among Muslims and Arabs. At the same time, in contrast to the bragging (or is it whistling in ...
By: 1913 Intel
Las Vegas Offers Great Opportunities to Global Real Estate Investors. Atten
2008-02-19 02:50:00 Las Vegas real estate is now offering opportunities to global real estate investors that they couldn’t imagine in their wildest dreams a couple of years ago. At this moment many large projects are in distress and anyone with a few million dollars can find unbelievable bargains that I do not see repeating soon. Las Vegas ...
Fear of God vs fear of Arabs
2008-02-12 11:09:00 In Hebrew, rasha means profane, ungodly, and hamas refers to violence and destruction. The peace process must put even die-hard atheists to shame. Nothing short of a miracle explains that every time Israel is ready to cede Judea and Jerusalem, Palestinians preclude the Jewish defeat. Arafat turned off Barak?s offer which included just everything the ?moderate? ...
By: Samson Blinded
Benazir Bhutto: Pakistan's Cleopatra
2008-01-21 13:22:00 Via Joachim Martillo, we offer CIA: Mehsud behind Benazir killing? There's a lot of pretty interesting stuff here. When I wrote my post Benazir Bhutto Killed in Pakistan three weeks ago, I said that I thought that Al Qaeda did it. We still do not have a whole lot of evidence that this is true. I have now changed my mind; I think that the Pakistani ISI (Inter-Services Intelligence Agency) killed Bhutto.But that is sort of like saying that Al Qaeda did it, since AQ, the Taliban and the ISI are all sort of interlocking entities in some ways. More precisely, the are individuals and even powerful factions inside the ISI that have very close ties with the Taliban and Al Qaeda. I am certain that the ISI knows exactly where Osama bin Laden is most of the time and is just refusing to turn him in to the US.The CIA blamed Baitullah Mehsud, a major Pakistani Taliban leader in South Waziristan, for the killing. But Mehsud himself is generally considered to be an ISI asset. The only evidence tha...
By: Robert Lindsay
Bush urges Arabs to oppose Iran
2008-01-14 03:06:00 President George Bush yesterday ratcheted up US rhetoric over Iran, lambasting it as 'the world's leading sponsor of state terror', and urging America's closest Arab allies to confront it 'before it is too late'.Giving the only formal speech of his
By: Get rich
Gulf Arabs chart delicate course between Iran, U.S.
2008-01-10 12:17:00 By Lin Noueihed DUBAI (Reuters) - U.S. President George W. Bush will seek Gulf Arab leaders' support this week to curb Iran, but may find these traditional U.S. allies more wedded to their own diplomatic drive after long frustration with his policies. Kuwait, Bahrain, the United Arab Emirates and Saudi Arabia have watched nearby Iraq, Lebanon and the Palestinian territories slip into crisis and Iranian influence spread rather than wane during Bush's seven years in office. "The royal families in the Gulf are looking at the Bush visit with slightly weary resignation and perhaps a vain hope of making a case that they absolutely need the Palestinian-Israeli peace process to work ... and on the Iran issue," said Gerd Nonneman, Professor of Arab Gulf Studies at Exeter University. "On the one hand they want a joint diplomatic strategy to avoid a nuclear-armed Iran but also they are saying we think we can engage Iran more effectively. We think we can take the sting out ...
By: B4U India
Can?t we become as good as Arabs?
2007-12-26 12:51:00 “Jihad and the rifle alone: no negotiations, no conferences, no dialogs.” Abdullah Azzam In more than a century of the Zionist enterprise, Arabs made no concessions while the Jews gave way continuously. Triumphant return to the Promised Land immediately degenerated into buying land from Arabs; that?s not what Joshua ben Nun did. When the Ottomans titled ...
By: Samson Blinded
Uncomfortable in U.S., Arabs Study Elsewhere
2007-12-20 07:14:00 DUBAI, United Arab Emirates -- For Nabil Al Yousuf, a senior aide to the ruler of the Persian Gulf state of Dubai, the indignities of arriving in the United States since 2001 have become routine, but remain galling.
By: Get rich
Israeli Arabs Blocked In Home Buying Effort
2007-12-16 16:20:00 A plan by the Jewish town of Mei-Ami to construct a new residential development was seriously attacked by Arab residents of a nearby town who demanded the right to purchase homes in the new houses. The proposed construction of 410 homes is on land that residents of Umm el-Fahm claim once belonged to an ...
Prince Far I & The Arabs - Cry Tuff Dub Encounter, Chapter 1
2007-12-14 19:34:00 Prince Far I & The Arabs - Cry Tuff Dub Encounter, Chapter 1Label - Danceteria/ROIRRecorded - 197xStyle - Dub, Overdub, On-U Sound, Lee Library, Reggae, RastaBritish dub master Adrian Sherwood collaborated with iconic Jamaican toaster Prince Far I for the first time on this powerful slice of version reggae, which includes performances from the likes of Sly Dunbar, Leroy "Horsemouth" Wallace, Earl "Chinna" Smith, and Dennis Bovell. While Prince Far I's vocals are not to be heard on these sessions, the deep-rooted presence of his personality is certainly felt, and the strength of the rhythms bubbling up through Sherwood's layers of echo and reverb are striking in and of themselves. While these cuts sound fathoms deep, on closer examination Sherwood's arrangements are pleasingly uncluttered, and while he certainly avails himself of the many possibilities of his mixing board, the effects thankfully don't wear out their welcome -- the strength of the performances and the skills of th...
Persecution of Christian Arabs Needs to be Stopped
2007-12-12 23:44:00 With the Christmas holiday fast approaching, the town of Bethlehem, the historic birthplace of Jesus, is facing a continuing exodus of its Christian residents as a result of growing persecution by radical Muslims. The International Fellowship of Christians and Jews (IFCJ), led by Rabbi Yechiel Eckstein, strongly condemns the oppression of Christians in Bethlehem by Islamic ...
By: 1913 Intel
Arabs Opposed Zionism on account of Islam -- Condi Rice smears Israel as Ap
2007-12-01 20:15:00 Sometimes those who speak in the name of morality in fact degrade morality, decency, and the lofty purposes they pretend to speak in the name of. Condi Rice [riso amaro], US secretary of state, spoke at the Annapolis Conference about her suffering as a black child in the American South in the days of racial segregation [ jimcrow] there. Yet Rice practiced her own form of segregation or apartheid at the Conference. At the behest of the Saudis, she ordered that Israeli delegates to the assembly of the full group, the plenum, of delegates, come in by a separate entrance from the Arabs, who were allowed to come in by the main entrance. This shows of course that the Arabs are not ready for peace. It also shows the Arab-Muslim tradition of practicing humiliation on and imposing an apartheid-like status on non-Muslims, albeit this status is based on religion rather rather than skin color or ethnic descent. It further proved that US policy is biased in favor of the Arabs, as it has almost a...
By: Emet m\'Tsiyon
Arabs doubt the power of Annapolis conference
2007-11-30 00:00:00 Arab commentators Wednesday drew aside the revival of the talks Israelo-Palestinians as a U.S. media stunt -staged and noy very...
Britain wanted to use Arabs to protect its interests in the Middle East
2007-11-28 13:52:00 The French scholar of the Middle East, Pierre Rondot, asserts that Britain wanted to use the Arabs to protect British Middle Eastern interests. It is noteworthy that Rondot was a strong sympathizer of the Arabs against Israel and Zionism, yet, being French, he did not have a motive to cover up British policies and motives.Great Britain, for reasons both of fact and sentiment, continues to be with the Arab nation; its favor in 1917 towards Zionism, its resignation to the arrangements of 1920 [at the San Remo Conference?] do not allow it to forget its essential design, which is to entrust the care of its transit interests in the Near East to an alliance with the Arabs; it also emancipated, as soon as it could, Transjordan (treaty of 1928) and Iraq (treaty of 1930); it also ended up during the second world conflict [WW2], as the patron if not the inventor of the 'Arab League,' evolving in the first days of peace [after WW2] towards the even more concrete projects of 'Greater Syria...
By: Emet m\'Tsiyon
Egypt: Jihadist Call For Attacks On Arabs
2007-11-23 23:25:00 Cairo, 23 Nov. (AKI) - The Egyptian Islamic extremist group, Jemaa al-Islamiya, has called on its foreign allies to adopt the new Jihad proposed by its jailed leader Sayd Imam.The initiative follows the release of a new manual this week by Imam, who called for an end to militant operations and violence against civilians in Arab countries."We invite all the jihadis abroad to have no doubt about the new initiative that we are proposing from the jihadi doctrine of Sayd Imam," it said in a statement distributed to Arab media."This new jihadi doctrine is one of a number of initiatives that the new group has undertaken to reinstate security and avoid bloodshed in Islamic societies."We want to also avoid internal wars and divisions and return to our original doctrine. "The group then thanked Sayd Imam, ideologue of the group, describing his initiative as "courageous" and stressed the importance of the new doctrine by someone who has written texts considered the basis for al-Qaeda.Sayd Imam...
Who Are the Ottomans?
2007-11-13 08:26:00 During the time of the Ottoman Empire, the Muslims were strong, noble and respected. It was a period where unity among Muslims was achieved. During the reign of the Ottoman Sultans, the Muslim unity that is idealized today, was actualized and developed from an authentic connection to the Prophet, Sayyidina Maulana Muhammad (may Peace and ...
By: Wa Salaam
Declared A Woman, Bahraini Man Battles Arab Norms
2007-11-05 04:47:00 With his wrestler's build and deep voice, it is hard to believe that Hussein Rabei could ever be mistaken for a woman, but in the Middle East cultural norms can blind people to the glaringly obvious. Formerly known as Zaineb, 33-year-old Rabei was raised as a girl after being born with genitalia that more closely resembled a vagina than a penis. Arab culture and its rigid views on gender meant doctors ignored growing signs that Rabei may in fact be male, he said. "When I married, my husband used to say, 'It's funny, but when I'm with you it feels like I'm with one of the guys, not my wife,"' said Rabei, who is now divorced. Rabei returned recently from an operation in Thailand to correct his gender -- a procedure for which he obtained consent from both Sunni and Shi'ite clerics. He is the first Bahraini to go public with news of such an operation, his lawyer said. It triggered a flood of media coverage and condemnation from many of his fellow Bahrainis for what they see a... |
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