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• Pamela Geller's Islamophobia hits new low with Thanksgiving Day smear of dietary laws
  • Frances November 25, 2011 at 1:43 am

    Eh, I doubt Ms Geller gives a damn about being right. Her job is to fear-monger.

    Happy Thanksgiving.

• Freedom Waves prisoners abused and imprisoned; 'Anonymous' hackers strike back
  • Frances November 7, 2011 at 4:40 am

    My thoughts exactly. They build a bit of left cover, with causes that are dear to progressives, and then the govt gets the excuse it wanted to shut down sections of the Internet.

• Tom Friedman pushed Iraq war as 'radical liberal revolution' to 'install democracy in heart of Arab world'
  • Frances November 6, 2011 at 7:10 pm

    "If he made the same kind of error in the business world, he would have been fired."

    I don't think Friedman CARES about being right. People whose job it is to regurgitate crude establishment propaganda and cover it with a thin veneer of intellectualism don't have to worry about being right. Friedman's job is just to dissemble and obfuscate and provide administrations with the left cover they need to be as greedy and selfish as possible.

• One missile, one playground: The will of Gaza
  • Frances June 10, 2011 at 2:32 pm

    What really surprises me about Palestine, time and time again, is the inherent joy and charm of her children. Such devastation and hardship, and still so much resilience and hope. And all so adorable!

    Thank you so much for this beautiful article, and best of luck to Iyad.

• Major New Weblog Features: The Anti Hypocrite Tools
  • Frances June 2, 2011 at 4:21 am

    Great news, thanks very much :-)

• Zuckerberg soulless
  • Frances May 26, 2011 at 12:37 pm with 1 replies

    Eh, for once he's right.

    I am so sick and tired of Americans in particular and Westerners in general trying to take credit for the revolution in Egypt or Tunisia. It wasn't you. You had nothing to do with it. Not Twitter, not Facebook or MySpace or YouTube. It was Arab blood and Arab sweat and Arab tears, and don't you dare claim otherwise. Social media just made it easier for you to watch it.

• 'Spirit Of Rachel Corrie' --little engine that could
  • Frances May 25, 2011 at 1:26 pm

    Thanks, annie.

• Jewish man, 62 y.o. but vital, seeks unh... world domination
  • Frances May 23, 2011 at 2:22 pm

    Thanks, annie {should have known you'd be the one to write about it :-) }

    Last I've heard, they're trying again! I'm trying to read up on Malaysian news portals. Fingers crossed.

  • Frances May 23, 2011 at 1:46 pm with 3 replies

    Is anyone on Mondoweiss covering the progress of The Spirit of Rachel Corrie?

    Also, I don't know who the third one is!

• Rosa Parks's bus doesn't stop in this country
  • Frances May 21, 2011 at 9:58 am

    James, your Witticisms are the only thing making RW's spewings bearable. Never stop.

• What rough beast slouches toward Jerusalem?
  • Frances May 16, 2011 at 3:30 pm

    You and Mooser need to get together and take this one down, Phil.

• Big victory for BDS movement
  • Frances May 10, 2011 at 1:41 pm

    Shhh, annie. If we agree with him, he might go away!

• The community of fear and the community of hope (Choose)
  • Frances May 10, 2011 at 10:21 am

    Lovely post, Phil.

• Bin Laden's last tape said America will have no security till Palestinians do
  • Frances May 10, 2011 at 10:26 am

    Now, now, MRW. What are you, some kinda conspiracy theorist? That was totes magotes OBL, don't you know we were RIGHT to send all those drones into Pakistan? Tsk tsk.

• My Sharia
  • Frances May 9, 2011 at 12:36 pm

    My thoughts and prayers to the poor Photoshopper who had to move his righteous mouse over every sinful, lust-inducing detail of Hillary's incomparable visage, every curve so skillfully disguised by her erotically androgynous pantsuit, every..........

    Phew.

• 'Geronimo EKIA'-- as Indian wars continue in Palestine
  • Frances May 8, 2011 at 2:36 pm

    *inhales*

    ".....mostly refugees from genocide) sought haven in lands that were largely unoccupied."

    *passes the bong*

• The dangers of the nationalistic fever and bloodlust over Osama bin Laden’s death
  • Frances May 5, 2011 at 7:33 pm

    Hi Citizen. I'm from Asia, most of my news is from Asian sources and I have some friends and family working in diplomacy and intelligence. Germany is APPARENTLY the prime target for a false-flag for sentimental reasons (you can guess), and because they've been relatively reluctant to be part of the Great Muslim WitchHunting Jamboree.

  • Frances May 4, 2011 at 4:57 pm with 5 replies

    Rumours percolating that it's going to be Germany. Please God, no.

• Hamas officials condemn bin Laden killing
  • Frances May 2, 2011 at 3:51 pm with 2 replies

    OT, but what the wha-? OBL is killed in Pakistan (what a convenient justification for the drone attacks), shot through the eye (just like in that picture from 2009), and then buried at sea in accordance with Islamic rites? I'm sure people better informed than me can correct me, but Islam is a desert religion. Since when do ANY desert cultures practise sea burials?

• 'PEP' (Progressive Except Palestine) makes the Washington Post
  • Frances April 27, 2011 at 2:10 pm with 1 replies

    Final results of Ziocaine can also be approximated by standing outside an apartment block and having an Acme piano dropped on your head.

  • Frances April 27, 2011 at 1:56 pm with 8 replies

    Wha-? Jon Stewart doesn't have a point, he's a fluffy Democratic Party-apologist. He's funny, but certainly no moral authority.

    Katie Halper sounds lovely. Must YouTube her and see if anything turns up.

• She was a Christian Zionist, right up to her first checkpoint
  • Frances April 25, 2011 at 3:58 am

    Lovely reply and I will be noting in down in my folder, but I believe piotr was being sarcastic :-)

• There is a concept in law-- that a person cannot control his or her own reputation
  • Frances April 21, 2011 at 5:46 pm

    Oh dear. I didn't actually mean for that to post. I did write it and clicked "Enter", but I thought better of it and clicked the red X STOP sign, and it did stop, so I thought it wouldn't have posted. I think that was a bit below the belt and I apologise.

    That said, I refuse to be moralised to by a person whose Internet handle is Gay State Girl. Phil, if she doesn't like you, you're probably doing alright for yourself.

  • Frances April 21, 2011 at 11:03 am with 3 replies

    ......

    People read Witty's blog?

• An antisemitic moment
  • Frances April 7, 2011 at 4:51 pm

    @Chaos,

    This needs to happen. NOW.

• Ros-Lehtinen says that Obama stopped pressuring Israel because 'the American Jewish community got mad'
  • Frances April 4, 2011 at 10:51 am with 2 replies

    "Israel is (far) from a fairytale"

    Truer words were never spoken.

• The documented record still stands: Israel intentionally targets civilians and civilian infrastructure
  • Frances April 3, 2011 at 7:16 am

    'Rorschach', sweet one, 'Rorschach'. Don't bother using the word if you can't be bothered to even look up the spelling.

• Netanyahu tells Ban next flotilla must be stopped
  • Frances April 2, 2011 at 6:29 am

    That is absolutely what happened, RoHa.

    There was also a short note:
    "Mwahahahahaha, the Zionist pig-dogs will never know what hit them. XOXO ACKH-madinejad."

• Report from the 'Mondo Awards' in Gaza
  • Frances March 30, 2011 at 4:33 pm

    Congratulations to all the winners and massive props to Adam, annie and Phil for the hard work they put into this wonderful site.

• Rape used 'as a weapon' in Libya
  • Frances March 29, 2011 at 5:44 pm

    "I would rather apologize at a later time to Mondo readers if this doesn’t pan out than to attack the credibility of a distraught woman saying she was gang raped as she was dragged away by security forces."

    Perfectly fair.

    Please don't take my comment as an endorsement of Gaddhafi. He's everything bad you've said about him, but I think with NATO intervention, this might turn into another Iraq, and am doubly suspicious of all information that seems like targeted propaganda.

    **

    Thanks again for your news round-up. I read them every morning to get my rage levels up :-)

  • Frances March 29, 2011 at 4:08 am with 4 replies

    Yeah, I'm having serious doubts about this woman in the hotel story. She bursts in, looking relatively unscathed for someone who's been gangraped, has JUST enough time to tell her story about having been raped by Gaddhafi's thugs, and then is dragged off?

    This stinks of "Dirty Arab men don't know how to treat their women, and so we must bomb them, thereby liberating them from life itself. And then take over the oil fields."

    Kuwaiti babies, anyone?

    It goes without saying that rape is a weapon in any war, but this story really seems dreamed up to stoke enthusiasm for a military intervention.

• Beinart calls West Bank 'non-democratic Israel'
  • Frances March 8, 2011 at 3:26 pm

    @Cliff,

    Tell the ocean not to throw itself on the rocks.

• Israel in Egypt: consistency among turmoil
  • Frances March 4, 2011 at 2:20 pm

    Great link, Ellen. Thanks.

• Report: Israeli company recruits mercenaries to support Gadhafi
  • Frances March 3, 2011 at 11:38 am with 5 replies

    Love the new news round-up format, Seham. Thank you so much for the hard work you put in.

• Neocon concedes that Egypt-Israel treaty is liability for U.S.
  • Frances March 3, 2011 at 3:08 pm

    EVERYDAY is make-up-your-own-facts day. A fact which I just made up.

• Qadhafi compares himself to Israeli war criminals
  • Frances March 2, 2011 at 3:57 pm

    "Qadhafi compares himself to Israeli war criminals."

    Stylish AND self-aware. I like it.

• Tom Friedman says Israel and Salam Fayyad deserve credit for Arab revolutions
  • Frances March 2, 2011 at 8:15 am

    They do deserve credit, just not quite in the way Tommy Boi imagines.

• Speaking truth to power at the J Street conference
  • Frances March 1, 2011 at 11:20 am with 1 replies

    I couldn't watch more than 30 seconds, she seems so upset and he seems such a knob. But she's so perdy. Like, WOW.

    (Phil, if you feel like doing a slightly fluffy piece, do one on John Galliano. What a disgusting creep. And the drunk defense? Honestly? I've been pissed before and I've never gone on a rant about Chinese people. Yeesh.)

• Desecrating the American flag
  • Frances February 27, 2011 at 4:50 pm

    Word. David Mitchell says it for me:

    link to youtube.com

• Last year the 'Times' called accomplice in slaughter, Seif Gaddafi, the 'Western-friendly face of reform' in Libya
  • Frances February 21, 2011 at 7:28 pm

    Seham, I close the tab and go look at shiny things, just so I don't write a response to them. I used to, but then I realised it sooooo wasn't worth the grief. Maybe if we agreed with them, they would leave?

• Egypt
  • Frances February 18, 2011 at 3:07 pm

    Mooser, I have missed you so much, it's a bit indecent. THANK YOU.

• 'Our only agenda is love of Egypt' -- Freed activist Wael Ghonim reenergizes protesters
  • Frances February 8, 2011 at 12:55 pm

    Thanks, Taxi. Didn't know that about Press TV, will go and look it up now.

    Seham, thanks very, very much, but don't stress yourself out about it! I'm going to root about Press TV and hopefully, I'll come up with something.

  • Frances February 8, 2011 at 11:46 am with 3 replies

    Is there a subtitled version anywhere on the internet? Pleasepleaseplease......

• ‘NYT’ says two-state solution should be saved by building 25-mile tunnel so that Israelis don’t have to see Palestinians traveling to Gaza
  • Frances February 9, 2011 at 8:15 am

    Yes, because you didn't see the next bit in which the Young Wanderer asks, "But how will I unite the land of Albion?" and Witty says "The answer, Young Prince, lies within your heart." and turns into an owl and flies off.

    It's a moving scene.

• Some are born great, some achieve greatness, some have greatness thrust upon em, and some have none of the above
  • Frances February 7, 2011 at 7:26 am

    MRW, are you American? Do you ever feel like you want her to win, just to see what would happen?

• They're dancing in Palestine, too
  • Frances February 5, 2011 at 1:37 pm

    I have Firefox and it works fine for me. All YouTube videos stopped playing on my Firefox two weeks ago. I uninstalled that Ad Blocker Plus (something like that) thing and now I can watch all videos just fine.

• America is about to begin a love affair with the Arab world
  • Frances February 5, 2011 at 2:03 pm with 2 replies

    I think his dad's of Irish descent, which might explain the "Maher" part of it.

    He'd be such a good Republican if he'd put his mind to it.

• Hear Tahrir Square echo with the chant, ‘Go Mubarak,’ and hear a future leader in Alexandria
  • Frances February 4, 2011 at 3:02 pm with 1 replies

    I think you do deserve thanks. You and Phil and Adam and annie and all the people who contribute to this site do so much to provide an intelligent forum for discourse on I/P and the Middle East, and we are all very grateful.

  • Frances February 4, 2011 at 10:24 am with 6 replies

    I'll go over the links later, but just for now: Aaaaaiiiiieeeee, cute protesting baby!

    Thanks very much for the roundup, Seham.

• When I was a kid I would have said, 'This is really bourgeois'
  • Frances February 4, 2011 at 1:47 pm

    When are people going to learn that the great cities of the world do not exist to fulfill their touristy dreams?

    It's a bit like how so many of the articles on the Egyptian revolution are obsessed with whether or not the artifacts are intact. Yes, historical preservation is important but for chrissake, there are real people with real lives involved and all you want to do is moan about the mummies?

• How the world can jolt Israel from its moral collapse
  • Frances February 4, 2011 at 7:56 am

    I know. You'd think after all the effort Phil and Adam put into this site, they'd attract a higher class of trolls.

• This wave will sweep Israel too-- Soros hints in the Washington Post
  • Frances February 3, 2011 at 11:09 am

    PG, that's not meant as a reply to me, right? Because I didn't say a word about Iran in my original comments and besides, I'm a huge supporter of Iran and of the common will of the Iranian people, not just of the Teheran yuppies.

  • Frances February 3, 2011 at 10:00 am with 1 replies

    He didn't do it all by himself, but he and his team of currency speculators and banksters bear a fair bit of responsibility for the 1997 currency crisis. Bad times, bad times. I'm not much of a writer and I won't try to explain it myself, but I do have a thumb-drive somewhere about with some good articles. I'll have a look around and try to get back to you on this.

    *Please note, I am NOT a Mahathir supporter. Family members beaten, intimidated and jailed by that creep and his Ops Lalang.

  • Frances February 3, 2011 at 9:00 am with 10 replies

    I can't help but approach everything Soros says with a great deal of caution. He's not a principled man, and we've not forgotten what he and his cronies did to Southeast Asia. He's perfectly capable of paying a handsome tribute to the protesters in public and working against them in private.

• 'The chant is يسقط يسقط حسني مبارك - Tell the world he is killing us'
  • Frances February 3, 2011 at 5:46 am

    God forbid the revolutionaries of Egypt don't write to your exacting standards. Go polish your monocle somewhere else.

• Justin Bieber to play Israel in April
  • Frances February 3, 2011 at 5:49 am

    Haven't the Palestinians suffered enough??!!

  • Frances February 2, 2011 at 8:41 pm with 1 replies

    Frankly, I can't think of a better punishment for Zionists than to be forced to listen to this spotty teen. Warble away, Bieber.

• Some Americans are hip
  • Frances February 2, 2011 at 9:08 am

    This song is truly wonderful, even if you're not wild about rap, please give this a listen!

• Desperate Israeli proclaims we can reerect the Israel lobby in China
  • Frances February 2, 2011 at 8:42 am

    HAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA!

    *keels over*

• Meanwhile, Israeli org seeks to certify businesses that don't hire Arabs
  • Frances February 2, 2011 at 12:41 pm

    Well, they should have thought of this before they BECAME Arabs! Mwahahahahaha!!

    Crikey.

• The ugly American: ‘This is an American grenade. American! American!’
  • Frances February 2, 2011 at 11:52 am

    You're all dead wrong. He's heading for a glittering career as a greased-up Chippendale dancer at the Fox News parties.

• Egyptian revolution: a war of attrition has begun
  • Frances February 1, 2011 at 8:39 pm

    I am, Seham! Thank you so much for all you do. I know it must be depressing to sift through so much terrible news every day but you and Kate do so much to bring awareness to the issues of the Middle East. I know sometimes when I'm done reading the roundups, I just need to shut off my laptop and go for a walk to prevent myself from smashing something.

• Breaking: Estimated 2 million protesters converge on Cairo's Tahrir Square; similar protests across Egypt; opposition releases unified demands calling for Mubarak ouster, new constitution, new elections; regional reverberations?
  • Frances February 1, 2011 at 10:33 am

    Augh, I meant "stupider". How embarrassing.

  • Frances February 1, 2011 at 10:12 am with 1 replies

    They're 20 times stupid than Al Jazeera? Just a thought :-)

    I'm not that much a fan of As'ad Abu Khalil at the Angry Arab but he says : "expect all remaining Arab leaders to perform pilgrimage to Qatar and prostrate before its Emir."

    I laughed and cried.

• On the eve of the 'march of a million people'
  • Frances February 1, 2011 at 8:54 am with 1 replies

    Such a stunning, brave, intelligent girl and the courage and resilience of those men!

    P.S . I especially love how at the end of the first video, you can the man man holding a cat with a sign that says "No MuBARK". Bark, geddit?

• Yousry is now Omar: 'Tell Mubarak we don’t need his damn Internet for the Peoples Revolution'
  • Frances February 1, 2011 at 7:29 am

    Absolutely, but constant vigilance is still necessary. It was a feature of the Bersih and Hindraf protests in Malaysia as well. Agents provocateurs were inserted into the peaceful crowd and when they got too close to their destination, they would start something, perhaps by hitting or throwing something at the Federal Reserve Unit, to justify using tear gas and water cannons on us. (Al-Jazeera's coverage on the protests was bangin'.) The thing is, WE know about the roles of such agents, but the majority of the TV-watching public doesn't. They'll just see protesters attacking the cops, who simply HAD to defend themselves. Ugh.

• 'Welcome to the lions of Almaza': Neighborhood patrols defend a Cairo in flux
  • Frances February 1, 2011 at 8:59 am

    This is gorgeous, really hope to see more from this guy. Wow, that sounded like spam.

• 'Tomorrow we'll trample you with our shoes! Leave with honor, you disgusting bunch!'
  • Frances February 1, 2011 at 9:16 am

    Nima Shirazi's written lots of good articles about the Iranian elections. I am so sick and tired of hearing about how the elections were stolen. No one outside of America, and probably Europe believes it. Neocons and neolibs are just butt-hurt that they spent all that money staging a fake revolution and it didn't work. Ack, spare me.

• Clinton statement celebrates 'civil society' in Middle East
  • Frances January 28, 2011 at 3:07 pm

    "Disgusting", you forgot "disgusting". I can't welcome it when I know that evil shrew and her minions are frantically working behind the scenes to keep Mubarak in power, or install an equally "friendly" dictator in his place.

  • Frances January 28, 2011 at 12:28 pm with 6 replies

    I think we should welcome Hillary Clinton's statement on Egypt.
    **
    No, we shouldn't. She's a disgusting, unprincipled hack who blithely talks out of both sides of her mouth. Spare me, Hillary. Government officials SAY these things to soothe our justifiable rage, and then do all they can to subvert the will of the people. Everything Mubarak has inflicted upon his people was bankrolled by her and her ilk. The leopard hasn't changed his spots.

• Outside Akko, I run into Christian Zionists from Arkansas
  • Frances January 3, 2011 at 3:09 pm with 1 replies

    Two agnostic Jews, a recovering Catholic, and a Druze walk into a bar.

    The bartender looks up and says "Get the hell out!".

    Small joke for the Monday.

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