As the casualty count form the Iranian reprisal against the Soleimani assassination rises, Trump downplays the injuries as “headaches” not “very serious injuries relative to other injuries I have seen”:
- 34 Troops Diagnosed With Traumatic Brain Injuries After Iran Missile Strike, Pentagon Says (Daily Beast)
Christian Indians protested against the citizenship law that discriminates against Muslims:
… as India contemplates taking a page from China:
One bit of code hidden in the 4.4 megabytes file sent to Jeff Bezos on May 1, 2018 gave hackers access to the Amazon CEO iPhone X:
- How Jeff Bezo’s iPhone X Was Hacked (NY Times)
Selecting occupied Jerusalem for a meeting to remember Holocaust and oppose anti-Semitism is an exercise in hypocrisy:
- Palestinians: World Leaders Chose The Wrong Site to Mark The Holocaust Ceremony (Jerusalem Post)
- Go to Gaza and Cry ‘Never Again’ (Haaretz)
- Prince Charles Wishes Palestinians ‘Freedom, Justice and Equality’ (The Guardian)
The order states, “It appears that but for Mr. and Mrs. X’s perceived religion, Delta would not have removed or denied them re-boarding”:
Notwithstanding Middle Eastern states influence, it is doubtful the new Omani leader will break Muscat’s strong ties with Tehran and its cooperation with Iran on many regional issues:
- Oman’s New Sultan And US-Iran Tensions (Atlantic Council)
“[T]he cryptocurrency industry is proving more nimble than the enforcers of sanctions”:
- Iran Has a Bitcoin Strategy to Beat Trump (Foreign Policy)
Imran Khan warns that a US war with Iran will be a much more difficult than Afghanistan’s, and disastrous for the Gulf countries …
… and peace activists are holding a global day in many major US cities to protest endless aggression in the Middle East, now the customer for hugely profitable US arms exports:
Palestinians reject the Kushner plan and are excluded from the invitation to Washington to discuss it:
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