July 18, 2006

Visiting Berkeley Professor on Al-Jazeera

He calls the Israeli response in Lebanon a pre-planned US/Zionist conspiracy. He also runs a website littered with graphic images of dead children. You know, the ones on all the pro Hezbollah sites.

Via al-Jazeera: As'ad AbuKhalil, author of Bin Laden, Islam, and America's New 'War on Terrorism' as well as The Battle for Saudi Arabia: Royalty, Fundamentalism, and Global Power, believes the recent violence is a symptom of an international conspiracy under way to enforce UN resolution 1559, which calls for the disarmament of militia groups in Lebanon - a reference to Hezbollah.

A professor of political science at California State University, Stanislaus, and visiting professor at the University of California at Berkeley, AbuKhalil just returned from Lebanon. He also maintains the Angry Arab blog.

Cry over my birth

Raise your quivering hands to the sky.

If only you searched my soul..my blood..

You will only find rejection and contempt

I hate you all..

Do not beg..Do not smile..

Your dry smile..only fills me with contempt for you

I can't handle the ship. But wait. That means I would have possibly--but accidentally of course--vomited on US ambassador in Lebanon, Jeffrey Feltman... ...But if you are a native who admire and mimic the White Man, you are seen as civilized, and Bush may pat your back, as he has done during Sanyurah's last visit in Washington, DC.

Rev. Billy Graham has not met an American war that he has not blessed.

(More from his al-Jazeera interview) I believe that the same racist impulse that considers Israeli lives worth more than Arab lives is at play here. I have no doubt that the lives of Arabs never meant much for the descendants of colonial powers in the region.

And it is important that we don't allow Israeli propaganda to present an image of symmetry between the two sides: There is no symmetry between the two sides in this conflict.

Not only in terms of Israeli military superiority, but also in terms of massive killings by Israel of largely innocent civilians.

Or if you don't have Palestinian kids handy you can catch a few local civilians, you know the ones you fed last week. Time to call in those favors.

Ynet via American Thinker: The IDF has found that Hizbullah is preventing civilians from leaving villages in southern Lebanon. Roadblocks have been set up outside some of the villages to prevent residents from leaving, while in other villages Hizbullah is preventing UN representatives from entering, who are trying to help residents leave. In two villages, exchanges of fire between residents and Hizbullah have broken out.

Photo Credit Conservative Thinking.