Shirt Reads: The Children of Lebanon

The UN Security Council is set to discuss and vote on a new draft resolution calling for a ceasefire between Israel and Hezbollah.
It reportedly calls for a “full cessation of hostilities”, then for a withdrawal of Israeli forces from Lebanon “at the earliest”.
It is also said to authorise the deployment […]

The Lebanese lumber…

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Frame a Hassan Nasrallah picture

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On his part, Olmert apologized for the deaths of Palestinian civilians in recent Israeli air strikes. At least 13 Palestinian civilians have been killed in Israeli air strikes in the past week, including two people in a Gaza house on Wednesday and three children on Tuesday. According to the AP, Olmert said he felt “deep […]

…but on a more serious note, domestic violence seems to increase during the World Cup (and other major sporting events) world wide.

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Moments During Halftime

I don’t even think I need to translate this one except to say that the one on the left is Palestine.
Sad…but true.

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I was digging in the Abu-Mahjoob cartoon archives and came up with this one that was unpublished which I’ve never seen. I’ll do a rough translation for the non-Arabic readers. It’s basically a cautionary warning to “visitors” coming to Jordan, and by visitors Emad Hajjaj is talking about our fellow Arabs who either vacation in […]

World Cup: For Subscribers Only!!!

“Thank God watching Saddam’s trial is still free!!”
Emad Hajjaj may be right about that. Saddam’s trial has become quite the dog and pony show. There is no doubt in my mind that Saddam from the first day in court was there to be executed and all of this is just a […]

“Time” Magazine exposes the ugliness of the slaughter of Iraqi civilians
in Haditha by Marines last year
The Shame Of Kilo Company
Sparked by a TIME report published in March, a U.S. military investigation is probing the killing of as many as 24 Iraqi civilians by a group of Marines in the town of Haditha last November. Several […]

Israeli cranes building the apartheid wall that spell the words: “The Final Solution”, while the Palestinian leadership is playing cards.
It’s a rather simplistic caricature from Emad Hajjaj on what is happening today but it did remind me of what HM King Abdullah II said this last Sunday:

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sigh…where have all the children of socio-political passion gone?

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Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad said: “Our answer to those who are angry about Iran obtaining the full nuclear cycle is one phrase, we say: Be angry and die of this anger.

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Some news in continuation of these two recent hot topics in the country.
First, the Egyptian worker who was Jordan’s first case of Bird Flu has recovered and left the hospital…
“The patient has completed his treatment. He has recovered and left hospital,” said the director of the Karak state hospital in southern Jordan, Sultan Tarawneh
He actually […]