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Thursday, March 12, 2009
A Muslim poem to women
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Autotranslating poetry is always dicey, but the intent of this poem in the (relatively secular) Firas Press is very clear. I kept the parts...
Bang your head against a wall before reading this
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From IMEMC, also in Palestine Today (I couldn't find the Yediot article): Israeli media sources reported on Thursday that Israel is pl...
Wednesday, March 11, 2009
Amnesty blames Israel for PalArab abuse of women
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Amnesty International just came out with a report called Challenging Repression , on the state of human rights defenders in the Middle East ...
Why Arabs cannot understand Purim
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What does Purim celebrate? Wikipedia says "Purim is a festival that commemorates the deliverance of the Jewish people of the ancient Pe...
"Jews desecrate Al Aqsa Mosque" - by their very presence
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At the end of an article about Israeli security in Jerusalem during Shushan Purim, Palestine Today writes: In the region around the holy Al...
Freeman proves the points against him
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Chas Freeman couldn't resist proving his critics correct in his withdrawal statement from consideration as NIE head: The libels on me an...
Tuesday, March 10, 2009
Purim Open thread
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It is the first day of the Purim Open, and the crowd is hushed as Rabbi Weissschwartz is putting for a birdie...which is remarkable, conside...
Introducing Queen Esther Coffee
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MEMRI brings us another insane Egyptian cleric , who says that the girl on the Starbucks logo is none other than Queen Esther! Following ...
Purim Torah: The Mossad Connection
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Haman's wife Zeresh tells him after he was forced to lead Mordechai around on the royal horse, "If Mordecai, before whom thou hast ...
"The Right to Development"
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A nice piece by Joseph Shattan in The American Spectator (h/t Sigmund, Carl and Alfred ): In the early 1980s, the Strasbourg-based European...
Arab writer: Iran won, Gaza lost
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A lengthy op-ed in Firas Press bucks the trend of praising Hamas that has become fashionable in Palestinian Arab circles. Instead, the wri...
Monday, March 09, 2009
Here are the Jews who "stormed" the Temple Mount
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Palestine Today publishes these scandalous pictures of Jews on the Temple Mount earlier today. As I wrote before, the Arab media said that ...
Happy Eid al-Msakr!
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As I mentioned yesterday, Purim was translated into Arabic as Eid al-Msakr. I was trying to figure out what hebrew word might be cognate to ...
Galloway makes it to Gaza; aid goes through Israel
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Despite George Galloway's insistence that all of the aid of his "Viva Palestina" convoy go through Rafah, he ended up caving ...
Proving Islam is a religion of peace (Tawfik Hamid)
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From the WSJ : Many Muslims seem to believe that it is acceptable to teach hatred and violence in the name of their religion -- while at the...
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