Mohammad of Vancouver writes: I have no illusions about Obama. I began having doubts when the Lieberman mentorship issue surfaced, and these doubts solidified into actual fears when I saw his speech at the annual AIPAC conference in June 2008….
Writes Mohammad of Vancouver: A Fundamental Fear: Eurocentrism and the Emergence of Islamism, by Bobby Sayyid. There is this much of this free online. I cannot stress how important it is to read this book, to pass it on to…
A couple friends have taken exception to Obama’s choice of Al Arabiya as his first interview, on the grounds that Al Arabiya is often criticized as being pro-Saudi and pro-American, and he should have gone to Al-Jazeera. The point came…
A very strong statement posted on the Progressive Magazine site, by international writers and scholars calling for divestment and boycott ala South Africa, and urging American writers to join up. I see only a few Americans, Amiri Baraka, Ali Abunimah,…
Hamas leader Ismail Haniya, in a letter congratulating Obama on his Inauguration and urging him to rectify the mistakes of the last administration. Also: “we join you in the march toward change, the change that will bring justice for all.”
In their refusal to see what the slaughter of hundreds of Arab civilians has revealed about the foreign country they love, Commentary’s Noah Pollak and Atlantic’s Jeffrey Goldberg have begun calling John Mearsheimer “Sheikh Hassan Mearsheimer.” This kind of namecalling…
Just got a note from a Saudi friend that Norman Finkelstein will be speaking in Bahrain on Monday and Tuesday nights, the 26th and 27th. Monday night at 8 p.m. at the Diplomat Hotel, on “Defeating the Palestinian Peace Offensive:…
Mohammad of Vancouver is angered by Obama’s decision to continue missile strikes at remote villages in Waziristan section of Pakistan: Sorry to let everyone know, I am breaking my silence on Obama. I’m losing some of my hope on Obama….
Amazing that FT gave its imprimatur to this warning: an important piece that Saudi Prince Turki al-Faisal published in the Financial Tims today. The one audience of this piece: Obama. [Emphasis Weiss’s] Last week, President Mahmoud Ahmadi-Nejad of Iran wrote…