Review of Arab media for Thursday, November 18: via Abu Aardvark For an idea of how revolting this scene was to Iraqis, see Riverbend.

Three Palestinians were killed by the Israeli Army last night in Gaza. Oh, wait! They weren't Palestinians! They were Egyptian policemen! Oops! If you ever wondered what an Israeli apology looked like, now one actually exists: Prime Minister Ariel Sharon telephoned...

I e-mailed Glenn Reynolds my post on his pals at Little Green Footballs. Glenn's response was, well, predictable yet puzzling:Oh, fuck off. Just look at who else I blogroll. Eric Umansky? Jesus Christ that's pathetic, especially from someone who invokes...

Scrolling down through the threads Tex linked to on FreeRepublic and Little Green Footballs, a thought I've had many times before recurred: liberals have ruined the language. By throwing the words "Nazi" and "fascist" around all these years with reckless abandon, they...

Warfloggers are busy shooting the messenger. Poor Kevin Sites. All his war reporting in Kosovo and Afghanistan and Iraq, and the fact that he's embedded in the most dangerous place in Iraq isn't enough to save him from Republicans on Auto Smear. As with the Abu Ghraib...

It seems such a short while, one month ago today exactly, when I posted that 1100 US troops had died in Iraq, and at the time it seemed such a short while before that 1000 troops had died. Now we have reached 1200. Such a tragic waste of lives to justify a mistaken...

Over at Liberty & Power, Aeon Skoble writes:Lileks makes two very insightful, yet amazingly economical, observations today. The first, regarding the reports that Condi Rice is likely to become the Secretary of State: "I want her to go to Saudi Arabia, and I want her...

Now that Fallujah is smashed into heaps of smoking corpse-strewn rubble, the US Military is gearing up for what they call the "next battle" - the battle for "hearts and minds." The Civilians that famously didn't exist yesterday are now expected to come to a food and...

And I thought Zarqawi was the beheading mastermind! But no. Apparently, that title goes to Moayad Ahmed Yasseen (also known as Abu Ahmed). Ahmed reportedly heads the group "Muhammad's Army." Ahmed seems to be incredibly well-connected. Iraqi Prime Minister Allawi said...

As the US government seems to be having some trouble permanently pacifying the population of Fallujah, perhaps they could enlist their old pal Saddam Hussein for help. He's an expert at pacifying a population using US and British supplies and training. Using a nominal...