July 21, 2008
“Israel has been humiliated in Lebanon in the last 2 decades, and its ability to inflict pain on Lebanon and the Lebanese without restraint or punishment (as it has done in 1950s, 1960s, 1970s) has been deterred,” writes The Angry Arab, as he watches news of the return of the Lebanese pr...
go to article »July 18, 2008
Breaking News just coming to hand to the staff of Doan Mind Me. Remember we get the news here first so always stay tuned. Democratic nominee and Presidential hopefully Barack Hussain Obama having sustained some flack over the past couple of weeks is now the subject of a US $1.7 Billion lawsuit fi...
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The 60th anniversary of Israel’s birth saw a flurry of praise by the worldwide Zionist community. The Australian Jewish News editorialised that “Jews all over the world feel Israel is the most special place on earth”. Furthermore, “the Israeli Defence Forces are the envy of the world … ...
go to article »July 17, 2008
In April, the IHT/NYT columnist Roger Cohen gauged the public opinion of Asia in sweeping, clumsy strokes. While "Europe votes Democrat", he argued, "Asia tends Republican". Supposedly, Asians see the world more in terms of "classic balance-of-power equations, driven by the might and self-interest o...
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The cover of the July 21 issue of the New Yorker magazine has caused a stir in the political circuit and prompted reprimand from the Obama campaign. The magazine depicts the presumptive Democratic nominee for President and his wife in a decidedly anti-American cartoon. Illustrator Barry Blitt drew t...
go to article »June 17, 2008
This is a rough translation ( for the Poligazette ) of the previous posting, which was published in the Dutch daily Friesch Dagblad. Four years ago, when American voters were able to choose between four more years with Bush jr. and the unknown alternative which John Kerry offered, I wrote that ...
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I must admit that most Moroccans know more about Obama than I do, and they should considering how much TV news they watch. Whenever they "discover" that I am American generally the first word out of their mouths is "OBAMA!". It probably also has something to do with the fact that Mr. Barack and I...
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The main topic among Iraqi journalists these days is the new refugee program which would allow them to live in the USA. One of my friends who works for another American newspaper decided to apply for all his family (more than 10 people), regardless of the big risk he would take by selling everything...
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the "media leaks" about the U.S.-Iraqi treaty are fishy. there is a huge Iraqi public and parliamentary opposition to signing any treaty with the U.S. while Iraq is occupied, but what has been happening lately is that some U.S.-backed Iraqi puppets have been manufacturing a parallel fake crisis i...
go to article »June 16, 2008
I’ve just finished reading Rick Perlstein’s Nixonland, an impressive depressing portrait of my native country in the years just before I decided to move to South Jerusalem. Perlstein’s portrayal of the relation between Nixon’s inner furies and the political furies of the 1960s and early ...
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A Bahraini journalist, translator, editor, blogger and wanna be artist - in no particular order. I am also Global Voices Online's Middle East and North Africa and Arabic Language Editor.
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