The Angry Arab News Service/وكالة أنباء العربي الغاضب : 2015

The Angry Arab News Service/وكالة أنباء العربي الغاضب: Putin and Bahrain Tyranny
▻http://angryarab.blogspot.fr/2015/12/putin-and-bahrain-tyranny.html

Pas beaucoup de graisse autour mais un sérieux os à ronger !

Putin and Bahrain Tyranny
How would the supporters of the Russian intervention in the Middle East deal with the recent signing of agreements between the Russian government and the Bahraini dictatorship? But then again, they didn’t mind Putin’s alliance with Netanyahu.

#russie #catastrophe_arabe

Burhan Ghalyun
▻http://angryarab.blogspot.fr/2015/12/burhan-ghalyun.html

Ghalyun warns Tunisia of a Shi‘te danger because the government there signed a tourism treaty with Iran. If he had warned of a Jewish danger, the story would have been on the front pages of all Western media and there would be calls from Western human rights organizations for his dismissal from his leadership positions in the Qatari branch of the Syrian opposition.

The Angry Arab News Service/وكالة أنباء العربي الغاضب : Today in Lebanon : Al-Qa`idah has been incorporated as the 19th sect
▻http://angryarab.blogspot.fr/2015/12/today-in-lebanon-al-qaidah-has-been.html

Brillante synthèse, comme souvent, d’Angry Arab sur les circonstances de l’échange entre des otages d’Al-Qaïda et des prisonniers de l’armée libanaise, bruyamment salué par les médias locaux (même si on est content pour les malheureux soldats libérés). Il en reste, mais ils sont entre les griffes de daesh ceux-là...

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Today, it has been proven in Lebanon:
1) that Qatar is the official sponsor of the Al-Qa`idah (Nusrah Front to be exact).
2) that Aljazeera Arabic is the official voice of Nusrah Front.
3) that Lebanon is yet again proven as the capital of self-humiliation and self-contempt.
4) that Lebanese media often play cheerleaders for the Lebanese security services.
5) that Lebanon, in return for the hostages, pledged to basically equip and feed Nusrah front in its terrorist wars.
6) Nusrah Front has been welcomed as an additional sect in Lebanon: image from Aljazeera from Irsal inside Lebanon. Ben Laden would have been proud of the Lebanese state.

(Légende de l’image, tirée d’Al-Jazeera : « Urgent : début de la mise en oeuvre de l’accord d’échanges de prisonniers, réalisé sous le patronnage du Qatar entre le gouvernement libanais et le Front Al-Nosra. »)

« عرب سات » تضغط على لبنان لإقفال « الميادين » : : الصفحة الرئيسة | جريدة السفير
▻http://assafir.com/Article/1/454871

«عرب سات» تضغط على لبنان لإقفال «الميادين»

Le Liban risque d’être "sanctionné" par Arabsat à travers le transfert du relais terrestre du Liban à La Jordanie. Il s’agit en réalité pour les Saoudiens de punir les Libanais qui hébergent Al-Mayadeen, une chaîne TV ouvertement anti-saoudienne.

#eadlt #liban #médias

The Angry Arab News Service/وكالة أنباء العربي الغاضب : Take One : how Human Rights Watch justified the placement of Alawite civilians in cages as human shields
▻http://angryarab.blogspot.fr/2015/11/take-one-how-human-rights-watch.html

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Et cet autre commentaire n’est pas mal non plus, qui décortique le minable communiqué de HRW. Faut-il préciser qour ceux qui ne le lisent pas régulièrement, que l’auteur dénonce régulièrement les horreurs du gouvernement syrien ?

Take One: how Human Rights Watch justified the placement of Alawite civilians in cages as human shields
1) notice that the headline does not talk about human shields but provides justifications for the war crime: “Armed Groups Use Caged Hostages to Deter Attacks”.
2) Another justification for the war crime: “even if the purpose is to stop indiscriminate government attacks,” said Nadim Houry”.
3) Yet another justification of the practice: “Syrian government forces have repeatedly attacked residential areas and popular markets in Eastern Ghouta”. I defy you to find this: in all the many statements by Human Rights Watch about war crimes of the regime do they ever insert a sentence or a passage to the effect that Syrian rebels also target civilians? The sentence here is merely inserted to justify the war crimes and to engender sympathy for the rebels.
4) The statement then cites a to provide a further justification: “The Shaam video includes interviews with local residents who justify the use of the cages by arguing that this may deter further attacks.”. Imagine if a story by HRW about barrel bombs over Ghuta, from which Syrian rebels shell Damascus indiscriminately includes a statement by a pro-government source in which he/she says that the bombs may “deter further attacks”?
5) they then issue a list of attacks by the government on civilians, of course always based on their pro-rebel sources. Has HRW resorted to this methodology in all of its statements on war crimes by regime? Never.
6) They then provide this statement which has no pictorial evidence whatsoever except a claim on Facebook: imagine if the HRW accepts to rely on a Facebook page to document war crimes by the Syrian rebels: "On September 13, a Facebook page used to spread local news from Fua and Kefraya, two Shia towns in Idlib besieged by Jaysh al-Fateh, a coalition of opposition armed groups including Ahrar al-Sham and Jabhat al-Nusra, posted images of a cage that they claimed contained detained Jaysh al-Fateh combatants that had been placed on top of a building in the besieged communities by fighters defending the towns."  Notice that the HRW statement does not even bother to mention that the two towns of Fua and Kafrayyah are both held hostage by Syrian rebels for no reason except the sectarian affiliation of the residents.

This is one of the few times in which Western human rights organizations have helped and abetted and justified war crimes by rebels—in the case of Syria.

#clichés_arabes (hélas)

The Angry Arab News Service/وكالة أنباء العربي الغاضب : Take Two : How New York Times justified the placement of Alawite civilians in cages to be used as human shields
▻http://angryarab.blogspot.fr/2015/11/take-two-how-new-york-times-justified.html

Take Two: How New York Times justified the placement of Alawite civilians in cages to be used as human shields
1) Typical of the New York Times: Alawite sect is always referred to as “Bashshar Al-Asad’s sect”, as if he is its prophet or as if he owns it. This is bigotry in the extreme and has provided justification and jubilation for war crimes by Syrian rebels. It would be disgusting anti-Semitism if one were to refer to Judaism as “the religion of Ariel Sharon” or to refer to Islam as “the religion of ISIS”.
2) Like the HRW statement (see below) the article immediately gives readers justification of the cage war crime: “Two days after Syrian government forces shelled a rebel-held suburb of the capital, Damascus, killing at least 40 people in a market”. That is it: the reader is immediately persuaded to sympathize with the war crimes of the rebel by telling them that the Syrian regime started this. Notice that New York Times has been doing this constantly and it is a propaganda service that the New York Times has never rendered except to Israeli occupation forces. You will look in vain to find any reference to a war crime by the regime in which a sentence is inserted to remind readers of a war crime by Syrian rebels.
3) Instead of condemning the act, the article in fact makes an effort to blatantly justifiies it and does not even refer to its practice as human shields: “apparently to shield the area from further bombardment”.
4) Wait: how were they able to capture “army officers” with their families? The officers were on the battle fields with their families? “the prisoners were captured army officers from President Bashar al-Assad’s Alawite sect and their families.” Another desperate attempt to provide justifications.
5) Joshua Landis is wrong: it is not uncommon for Syrian rebels to impose Sunni-style veiling on Alawite women: “Joshua Landis, a Syria expert at the University of Oklahoma, suggested that some of the women appeared to be Sunni Muslims.”
6) The NYT even tries to present the leader of the group which committed those war crimes in a positive light: “The Army of Islam, a group with financial backing from Saudi Arabia, is led by Zahran Alloush, a Sunni commander who seemed to back away from sectarian anti-Alawite statements in an interview with an American journalist, Roy Gutman, in May.” That is all what it takes for NYT to be convinced that he is no more anti-Alawite? I am sure that Times would have been impressed with Ribbentrop statements in Nuremberg as well.
7) Obama’s administration is in contact with this war criminal: “Mr. Alloush, who said his faction had been in direct contact with Daniel Rubinstein, the Obama administration’s special envoy for Syria”.
8) Another attempt by Alewives to justify indiscriminate war crimes against all Alawites: “Alawites from the Assad family have ruled Syria for decades, even though most Syrians are Sunnis.” Imagine how the NYT would be outraged if an Arab were to insert a statement about the murder of Jews by Palestinians to the effect that: “Jews have ruled Palestine since 1948”: such a reference would be categorized as anti-Semitism in a sentence about violence.
9) Another justification in the same article for the cage war crime: “The rebel stronghold of Eastern Ghouta has been under intense bombardment since the insurgents managed to block the main northern entrance to Damascus”.
10) They managed to even Skyped with someone to give them another justification: ““It’s to protect the civilians,” Bilal Abu Salah, a media activist from Douma, said in a Skype interview on Sunday.” And by referring to this supporter of war crimes as “media activists” they only lend his voice credibility.
11) Then a medication justification for the cage war crime: “A paramedic from Douma who asked to be identified only by his first name, Ahmad, said the casualties of the recent strikes there “were women and kids mostly.””
12) Another justification: “said the Sunni Islamist group had copied the strategy of using “kidnapped people — including whole families — as human shields,” seen earlier in Alawite-majority towns seeking to deter shelling by insurgents.” Where did the Times correspondent see that in Alawite-majority towns? Why not name them and provide readers with pictures?

Excellente analyse de texte, en en l’occurrence un article du NYT, par Angry Arab. Pas suffisant malheureusement pour convaincre ceux qui s’obstinent encore à applaudir à la révolution syrienne.

#syrie

Selon Angry Arab, interdiction de couvrir l’arrestation d’un prince séoudien dans les médias arabes :
▻http://angryarab.blogspot.fr/2015/10/the-saudi-prince-in-beirut-jail.html

Savez-vous que la plupart des journaux en arabe ont l’ordre stricte de ne pas mentionner qu’un prince séoudien avait été arrêté alors qu’il tenter de faire passer 2 tonnes de drogues illégales depuis l’aéroport de Beyrouth dans son jet privé ? Certains médias libanais n’ont pas mentionné un mot à ce sujet (comme les médias du groupe Futur de Hariri, télé et journaux), tandis qu’al-Joumhouria (la République) d’Elias Murr a mentionné que « des Séoudiens » avaient été arrêtés. Seuls des journaux yéménites, tunisiens et libanais en ont parlé.

(J’ai traduit rapidement le billet d’Angry Arab.)

The Angry Arab News Service/وكالة أنباء العربي الغاضب: Who says that American and its Gulf allies are not bringing democracy and enlightenment to the Middle East? this is the fruits of their work in Syria
▻http://angryarab.blogspot.fr/2015/10/who-says-that-american-and-its-gulf.html

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Leçon de droit musulman à Idlib. Il y en a une qui n’a pas ses gants, au fond. Mauvais esprit sans doute. Pauvres gamines.

#clichés_arabes #syrie

Ramallah : 3 Palestiniens blessés par des tireurs
Par Le Figaro.fr avec AFPMis à jour le 07/10/2015 à 14:58
▻http://www.lefigaro.fr/flash-actu/2015/10/07/97001-20151007FILWWW00195-ramallah-3-palestiniens-blesses-par-des-tireurs.p

Trois Palestiniens ont été blessés aujourd’hui, dont un très grièvement, par des tireurs qui s’étaient infiltrés parmi les jeteurs de pierre. Ils ont ensuite été rejoints par des soldats israéliens, lors de heurts à Ramallah, en Cisjordanie occupée, selon des journalistes de l’AFP.

Lors de heurts commencés à la mi-journée au point de passage de Bet-El en Cisjordanie occupée, les journalistes ont vu quatre hommes, le visage masqué, l’un d’eux portant un drapeau du Hamas, lancer des pierres. Soudain, ils se sont détachés du groupe de jeunes, ont sorti des pistolets et ont tiré sur plusieurs d’entre eux.

L’un des jeunes a été touché à l’arrière du crâne. Puis des soldats israéliens qui se tenaient à quelques dizaines de mètres derrière sont venus aider les tireurs à ramener les trois jeunes blessés à bout de bras vers les véhicules de l’armée. Avant d’être évacués, deux des blessés ont été frappés par les tireurs et des soldats. Tous ont été embarqués à bord d’ambulances de l’armée israélienne. Les Palestiniens accusent régulièrement Israël d’envoyer dans les manifestations des membres de leurs forces de sécurité, déguisés en manifestants et parlant l’arabe, pour procéder à des arrestations.

Trois Palestiniens blessés par des tireurs infiltrés
AFP
▻https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7zlLLiT5m0o

Angry Arab: Saudi and Hariri media in a state of panic
▻http://angryarab.blogspot.fr/2015/08/saudi-and-hariri-media-in-state-of-panic.html

Marching orders have been issued. All Saudi and Hariri media today are claiming that all the protesters in Beirut are “rioters” and “anarchists” who are sent by Hizbollah. Hizbollah in reality is as far from the protests as far as I am from Mars. Sectarian agitation in those media is in full force: sectarianism is the first and last refuge of Harirism.

Amal favorable aux manifestations populaires et veut l’élection d’un président - L’Orient-Le Jour
▻http://www.lorientlejour.com/article/940825/amal-favorable-aux-manifestations-populaires-et-veut-lelection-dun-pr

Insistant sur le fait que « notre formation reste un mouvement de contestation populaire de premier plan, qui est loin d’être élitiste ou populiste », le texte a déclaré que « son objectif a toujours été de consacrer la participation citoyenne de toutes les catégories sociales, à travers tous les rouages de la vie de la société, de l’État et la réalisation de la justice sociale ».
Dans son communiqué, le mouvement Amal a signalé avoir « mis en garde les gouvernements successifs contre la négligence des revendications populaires et contre le court-circuitage de ce qui touche à la vie des gens et aux services élémentaires, comme l’eau, l’électricité, l’hygiène de vie... dans le prolongement de la tradition établie par l’imam Sadr, selon laquelle la privation est un terrain propice à l’explosion ». « Il est donc normal de voir se former une mouvance populaire, lorsque la porte de l’hémicycle est fermée et son rôle de contrôle et de législation paralysé », a-t-il dit.
Stigmatisant « tous les actes qui menacent la sécurité et toutes les tentatives des infiltrés d’impliquer le nom du mouvement dans leurs actes nuisibles », le mouvement a appelé les services compétents à « protéger les mouvements de revendication populaire ». Il a également réclamé « la relance, par le législatif et l’exécutif, des appels à élire un président de la République ».
Plus tôt dans la journée, le mouvement avait publié un premier communiqué, démentant son implication dans les émeutes de la veille. « Le mouvement Amal dément catégoriquement les informations infondées, nous accusant de provoquer des émeutes. Diffusées par les médias, ces informations ont un but manifeste de provoquer la discorde (...). Les intentions de ces médias qui ont perdu leur objectivité (...) et qui sont dirigés par les chambres noires que nous savons sont désormais connues de tous », toujours selon le communiqué, qui a appelé les médias à consulter le bureau de presse du mouvement préalablement à la diffusion de toute information le concernant. Il les a enfin mis en garde contre « les dangers de la diffusion d’informations mensongères ».

#Liban #déchets #hypocrisie
cf. @nidal ▻http://seenthis.net/messages/401020

Et là, Romain Caillet te dit toute son admiration pour Tsahal :

– 21 août à 11h51
▻https://twitter.com/RomainCaillet/status/634664127286411264

A noter qu’Israël a frappé des dizaines de bases syriennes et des militants du Jihad islamique sans provoquer la mort d’un seul civil.

– cette admiration pour la qualité chirurgicale des « frappes » israéliennes n’est pas nouvelle ; par exemple en avril dernier :
▻https://twitter.com/romaincaillet/status/591921033080340480

Nouveaux raids israéliens détruisant des armes stratégiques du #Hezbollah, sans provoquer la mort d’un seul civil :
▻http://www.lorientlejour.com/article/922288/raids-aeriens-israeliens-contre-larmee-syrienne-et-le-hezbollah-dans-

– nouveauté, hier après le premier message (ci-dessus) : en réponse à un tweet d’Imad Stitou, le Burgat-boy de Beyrouth précise encore sa pensée :
▻https://twitter.com/RomainCaillet/status/634667017430302720

Si vous me posez la question, je vous réponds sans hésitation qu’en comparaison des Etats arabes c’est même une armée morale.

Quand (parmi tant d’autres) Fouad Siniora rend hommage ainsi à Saoud al-Fayçal, il le décrit ainsi :
▻http://seenthis.net/messages/389014

« Il était un des symboles de l’ouverture et de la modération, s’opposant fermement à l’extrémisme, la violence et au terrorisme »

As‘ad AbuKhalil présente le même Saoud al-Fayçal ainsi :
▻http://angryarab.blogspot.fr/2015/07/john-kerry-on-father-of-sectarian.html

le père de la guerre sectaire et l’oncle d’Al Qaeda

Hum… l’un des deux raconte donc strictement n’importe quoi. Mais lequel ? (Indice : celui qui ne ment pas n’est pas devenu archi-millionnaire grâce aux Séoudiens.)

Dirty tricks of House of Saud: how they interfere in appointments at Pakistani universities
▻http://angryarab.blogspot.fr/2015/07/dirty-tricks-of-house-of-saud-how-they.html

This is an incredible document from the Wikileaks collections of Saudi cables. It basically tells the story of how the Saudi embassy was outraged that the president of International Islamic University in Islamabad, friend and colleague, Mumtaz Ahmad, invited the Iranian ambassador in Pakistan to serve as guest of honor during the Cultural Week. The Saudi embassy was enraged and called the president and asked that the wife of the Saudi ambassador be invited instead. Mumtaz explained that the invitation could not be rescinded. The Saudi cable here urges the vice-president of the University (a Saudi) be asked to appoint a Saudi national as president. Mumtaz resigned in 2012 and a Saudi national was appointed in his place. […]

#saudileaks

The Angry Arab News Service/وكالة أنباء العربي الغاضب : Typical Western media account about Arab Jews : TV serial The Jewish Quarter
▻http://angryarab.blogspot.fr/2015/06/typical-western-media-account-about.html

Angry Arab « allume » un article à propos d’un feuilleton égyptien de ramadan, le « quartier des juifs ». Il s’agit d’un classique machin de saison, avec dans le titre le mot « juif » histoire de titiller les médias. Ca ne rate pas ! Peu de public le suit, le feuilleton n’a rien de particulièrement excitant, mais les articles, en particulier dans les médias étrangers, tombent comme feuilles en automne...

#égypte #feuilleton #quartier_des_juifs

Meet the moderate and democatic Syrian rebels: what Western correspondents don’t tell you about the Free Syrian Army
▻http://angryarab.blogspot.fr/2015/06/meet-moderate-and-democatic-syrian.html

It seems that the Free Syrian Army in its official correspondence with their Saudi masters, according to the Saudi cables in Wikileaks, identify the enemy as the International Free Mason movement personified in the Syrian regime, and they have no qualms about making reference to the enemy as the Manichean (or Safavid) Shi‘ite regime. The political adviser of the Free Syrian Army even maintains that Free Masonry is aimed at attacking Sunnis.

Sources:
▻http://www.al-akhbar.com/node/236507
▻http://al-akhbar.com/node/236506

#saudileaks

Saudi blacklist of journalists : media manipulation worldwide
▻http://angryarab.blogspot.fr/2015/06/saudi-blacklist-of-journalists-media.html

This is a most damning document revealing Saudi media and propaganda strategy worldwide. It shows how the Saudi regime is keen on controlling all Arab media including two publications in Canada, damn it. It also reveals the existence of a blacklist of journalist who are banned from the kingdom for their critical reporting (I guess that does not affect the pliant correspondent of the New York Times and the Washington Post). It also talks about attempts to block a law in the US Congress which sought justice for victims of Sep. 11. The document also confirms what we all know: that Ash-Sharq Al-Awsat and Al-Hayat are mere tools of Saudi propaganda apparatus.

▻https://wikileaks.org/saudi-cables/doc117410.html

#saudileaks

Ben Hubbard du New York Times : les saudileaks sont des pétards mouillés
▻http://www.nytimes.com/2015/06/21/world/middleeast/cables-released-by-wikileaks-reveal-saudis-checkbook-diplomacy.html

Some found the documents underwhelming, noting that similar activities are carried out by many countries, including the United States.

“There is not really something shocking that compromises Saudi security,” said Abdulkhaleq Abdulla, a political science professor in the United Arab Emirates, who had read about 100 cables.

Everyone knows that Saudi Arabia practices checkbook diplomacy, he said, adding that it now had to compete for clients with other rich states, like Qatar, Kuwait and the United Arab Emirates.

Angry Arab fait monter la sauce : Saudi Wikileaks tomorrow
▻http://angryarab.blogspot.fr/2015/06/saudi-wikileaks-tomorrow.html

I am not at liberty to speak more about the unpublished Saudi cable Wikileaks as the scoop belongs to Al-Akhbar but what I know (and it is only partial) is that it is quite damning and explosive. It is a documented chronicle of the corrupt financial manipulation of Arab politics and media by this tyrannical royal family.

Je sens que le site du Akhbar va être paaaarticulièrement difficile à consulter demain… #saudileaks

Grotesque festival de propagande en faveur d’Al-Qaeda sur Aljazeera :
▻http://angryarab.blogspot.fr/2015/05/the-grotesque-pro-al-qaidah-festival-on.html

▻https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iQE7pBBZExY

You have to watch this pro-Al-Qa‘idah festival on Aljazeera TV. Unbelievable. The host and the guest, Ahmad Zaydan (the notorious Pakistan correspondent of Aljazeera—I almost said of Al-Qa‘idah) basically promotes Al-Qa‘idah in all its branches to the viewers. He at one point was talking about Bin Laden and his comrades and the simplicity of their lifestyle and said: “we used to eat bread and tea” but then quickly corrected himself. He refers to Sep, 11 terrorism on the US as "Ghazwah 11 Aylul (or Conquest of Sep. 11) which is the official name used by Al-Qa‘idah. He said that Ayman Dhawahiri is now like the Queen of England, who does not rule—kid you not. There was a Lebanese guest who was opposed to this propaganda but he was not allowed to speak. They also invited a guest from WINEP to have him agree that Nusrah Front is now an acceptable moderate political party. You have to watch it to believe it. They even promoted the rule of Nusrah and the treatment of minorities by them in “liberated territories”. I have not been watching Aljazeera and could not believe how much it has changed. There is not even a semblance of professionalism and no, the network was not like this all along.

PS Zaydan said twice that Nusrah at the level of leaders took a decision to sever ties with Al-Qa‘idah but never explained why that was announced as the Qatari regime wanted for PR purposes.