Monthly Archives: December 2008

Turkish forces to Gaza?

Bahraini news­pa­per Al-Waqt leaks infor­ma­tion about a new pro­posed Turk­ish ini­tia­tive sug­gested by the Turk­ish PM Erdo­gan to send Turk­ish forces to Gaza. The idea still stud­ied by Arab cap­i­tals, the idea is that the Turk­ish forces will oper­ate under an … Con­tinue read­ing

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Waiting for the green light

Qatari news­pa­per Al-Watan says that “Mod­er­ate” Arab coun­tries Saudi Ara­bia, Egypt and Jor­dan [I am not sure about Jor­dan] are wait­ing for the green light from Wash­ing­ton to accept hold­ing an Arab Sum­mit about Gaza.

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After Hamas

Al-Akhbar reported that out of the sud­den Dahlan [in As’ad Abu Khalil blog, there are enough posts to write a book about this guy Syr­ian News­pa­per Al-Watan reported that Dahlan coop­er­ated with he Egypt­ian intel­li­gence and the Israelis pro­vid­ing infor­ma­tion … Con­tinue read­ing

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Why Jordan changed position?

Aljazeera also reported today about how Jor­dan changed its posi­tion from ally­ing with the so called mod­er­a­tors into keep­ing a safe dis­tance from all sides. The rea­son behind the removal of the head of the Jor­dan­ian Intel­li­gence is not what Al-Hayat … Con­tinue read­ing

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What changed in Arab countries? Egypt for example

Saudi Inte­rior Min­istry bans demon­stra­tion? Tunisian police harshly put down a demon­stra­tion in sup­port of Gaza? Big changes are hap­pen­ing in the men­tal­ity of the Arab pub­lic. I will choose Egypt as an exam­ple of what is going on across Arab … Con­tinue read­ing

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Saudi Arabia TV helps Israeli airplanes to find its targets

Saudi financed Al-Arabiya TV accused with help­ing the Israeli mil­i­tary cam­paign. Islam­memo says TV cor­re­spon­dents are pro­vid­ing infor­ma­tion of the tar­gets. If you watch Al-Arabiya you noticed for exam­ple the cor­re­spon­dents say­ing: Has­san Nas­ral­lah also said the same thing in … Con­tinue read­ing

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Gaza, The ground operations

Al-Manar expects that the ground oper­a­tion will start soon [I heard few min­utes ago that it is already started] say­ing the long air bom­bard­ment is not good for Israel for the fear of the Arab or inter­na­tional involve­ment. The news … Con­tinue read­ing

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Change in Jordan’s media language

Burn­ing the Israeli flag in the par­lia­ment was very sig­nif­i­cant and sym­bolic move from the Jor­dan­ian MPs, but also there are changes in Jor­dan­ian rhetoric. Before, Jor­dan­ian writ­ers crit­i­cized Israel, now they are aggres­sively attack­ing the Jor­dan­ian — Israeli rela­tions. … Con­tinue read­ing

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Obama’s delegation meets with Iraqi opposition

- After the arrest of the Inte­rior Min­istry offi­cers accused of being Baathists, plan­ning a coup against Maliki’s gov­ern­ment, Al-Zubaidi reveals a list of cur­rent politi­cian and high rank offi­cials are/were Baathists. — Hroun Moham­mad writes on Al-Quds Al-Arabi about … Con­tinue read­ing

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Shoes-throwers waiting for Abbas in Kuwait, where are the alleged Iranian militias in Gaza?

Abu Al-Gait weak reac­tion [Youtube] on Nasrallah’s speech yes­ter­day say­ing that Nas­ral­lah starts his war on the Egypt­ian peo­ple. With Egypt­ian news­pa­pers reported that more 200,000 demon­stra­tors in Egypt’s major cities, I won­der who is the delu­sional? Images and clips … Con­tinue read­ing

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