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Imagine my surprise; Barack Obama’s bold new initiative for Arab countries to normalize relations with Israel is getting nowhere. The U.S. administration has not been successful in securing commitments from Arab countries to take steps toward normalizing relations with Israel, a senior source in Jerusalem said Wednesday. The source ...
Israel, Arab World, King Abdullah, Barack Obama, Saudi Arabia
MEMRI has translations of Reactions in the Arab World to Obama’s Cairo Speech. Some are pretty reasonable, and others are ... well ...
Barack Obama, Egypt, Diplomacy, Speech, Arab World, Media, MEMRI
As the Holocaust-denying puppet Prime Minister of the Palestinian Authority meets with Barack Obama, our laughable headline of the day is from the Associated Press: Abbas pushing pan-Arab peace with Israel. Is there any diplomat anywhere who really believes there’s going to be a “pan-Arab peace with Israel,” if Israel ...
Israel, Arab World, Jordan, King Abdullah, Barack Obama, Mahmoud Abbas
Jordan’s King Abdullah says that the US and Barack Obama are promoting a “new plan” for peace in the Middle East—a “57-state solution.” LONDON (Reuters) - The United States is promoting a peace plan for the Middle East involving a “57-state solution” in which the entire Muslim world would ...
The Iraqi journalist who threw his shoes at President Bush has been sentenced to three years in jail, and people who think it’s cool to assault the President of the United States are seething and whining. Chief defense attorney Dhia al-Saadi then demanded that the charge be dismissed, saying ...
The Associated Press helpfully informs us that the Iraqi journalist who threw shoes at President Bush was protesting the war. BAGHDAD – The Iraqi journalist who threw his shoes at former President George W. Bush failed to apologize as his trial began Thursday, and instead appealed defiantly to the ...
Q: How do you know when you’ve really made it in the Arab world? A: Father offers daughter to shoe-thrower. CAIRO (Reuters) - An Egyptian man said on Wednesday he was offering his 20-year-old daughter in marriage to Iraqi journalist Muntazer al-Zaidi, who threw his shoes at U.S. President ...
Iraq, President Bush, Journalism, Arab World, Women's Rights, Misogyny
Arab journalists are stepping forward to say, “I’m Muntadhar al-Zeidi!” — photographed by Bilal Hussein. (Hat tip: Snapped Shot.)
Now at the website of VG, Norway’s largest newspaper: a cute little Flash game in which readers can throw a shoe at Bush, just like an Iraqi journalist: Kast en sko på Bush her! (Hat tip: Bruce Bawer.)
The Iraqi TV reporter who threw his shoes at George W. Bush yesterday is rather predictably being hailed as a hero by the Arab world. Newspapers across the Arab world printed front-page photos of Bush ducking the flying shoes, and satellite TV stations repeatedly aired the incident, which was ...
The media are almost universally giving it a negative spin, but President Bush’s speech to the World Economic Forum in the Egyptian resort town of Sharm El-Sheik, with representatives from many Arab nations present, was pretty extraordinary: President Bush Attends World Economic Forum. This section jumped out at me: ...
World powers urge Arabs to honor Palestinian pledges. LONDON (Reuters) - World powers called on Friday on Arab states to honor their financial and political pledges to help the Palestinians in their U.S.-backed Middle East peace effort with Israel. Good luck with that.
A survey of Arabs conducted by YouGov reveals a strange mix of deep irrationality, denial, and self-contradicting views on the subject of religious extremism. A YOUGOV poll commissioned by the Doha Debates has concluded that nearly one-third of all Arabs believe that Saudi Arabia is at greater risk from ...
A man-in-the-street interview, Saudi-style. (Courtesy of MEMRI TV.) [Video] Interviewer: Would you, as a human being, be willing to shake hands with a Jew? Interviewee 1: Of course I wouldn’t be willing to shake hands with a Jew, for religious reasons and because of what is happening now in Palestine, ...
Here’s a short video about the Israeli construction taking place near the Temple Mount, to replace an access ramp that collapsed three years ago, for the benefit and safety of all visitors. There is an enormous effort right now by Islamists to incite the Muslim world against Israel because of ...
Temple Mount, Arab World, Antisemitism, Conspiracy Theories, Militant Islam, Video
The Temple Mount hysteria on the Arab street is spreading to the Egyptian Parliament: Egyptian MP: Nothing short of nuke will ‘work’ with Israel. A member of the Egyptian Parliament from President Hosni Mubarak’s ruling party said Monday that nothing short of a nuclear bomb would ‘work’ with Israel. “That ...
Temple Mount, Arab World, Antisemitism, Conspiracy Theories, Militant Islam, Egypt
The official Palestinian mental health agency (oxymoronic enough?) warns the world of the consequences of “agitating Muslims’ feelings.” As if we didn’t already know. GCMHP Condemns Diggings Near Al-Aqsa Mosque. (Hat tip: The Viking.) GAZA, February 12, 2007 (WAFA) - Gaza Community Mental Health Programme (GCMHP) condemned Monday the ...
Temple Mount, Arab League, Arab World, Antisemitism, Conspiracy Theories, Militant Islam
The terror supporters of the Arab League are calling on the “Quartet” of Western nations to enforce the evil conspiracy theories and paranoid fantasies of the Arab world: Arab League calls on Quartet to end Israeli dig. CAIRO (Reuters) - The Arab League on Saturday condemned excavations by Israel near ...
Temple Mount, Arab League, Arab World, Antisemitism, Conspiracy Theories, Militant Islam
Newsflash: Poll shows Arabs dislike Bush. If we’d just give them what they want, everything would be better. Or so they say. WASHINGTON (Reuters) - A new poll on Thursday underscored deep Arab unhappiness with the United States but said the negative image could be repaired if Washington brokered a ...
Nothing much to worry about here, right? I mean, what could go wrong, with a corrupt religious tyranny leading the charge for nuclear weapons in the Arab world? Arab states study shared nuclear program. Oops, my mistake. Upon closer reading, I see this is all about peace. RIYADH, Saudi Arabia ...
Agence France Presse goes right to the source for their penetrating analysis of George Bush’s speech to the UN: Islamists and their enablers, who predictably spew the usual hatred and infantile victimology. To AFP, though, this self-defeating nonsense is “analysis:” Bush wasting his time with address to Mideast population: analysts. ...
When your human shields won’t provide cover voluntarily, what else can you do except prevent them from escaping? IDF: Hizbullah preventing civilians from leaving villages in southern Lebanon. (Hat tip: LGF readers.) The IDF has found that Hizbullah is preventing civilians from leaving villages in southern Lebanon. Roadblocks have been ...
The Iranian branch of Hizballah, which al-Reuters quaintly insists may not be linked to the Lebanese Hizballah, is threatening to attack the United States and Israel. TEHRAN (Reuters) - Iran’s Hizbollah, which claims links to the Lebanese group of the same name, said on Tuesday it stood ready to attack ...
Brought to you by The Guardian as always, Ahmad Khalidi, a senior associate member of St Antony’s College, Oxford, shills for Hizballah: If Israel has the right to use force in self defence, so do its neighbours. (Hat tip: LGF readers.) Much has been made in recent days - at ...
At the Jerusalem Post, Khaled Abu Toameh says support for Hizballah in the Arab world is evaporating—except among Palestinians: Arab world fed up with Hizbullah. With the exception of the Palestinians, the Arab world appears to be united in blaming Iran and Syria for the fighting in Lebanon. Until last ...