News and Analysis 8/15/22

Israel’s relentless serial murders …

• Another Palestinian Civilian Dies from Israel’s Attack on Gaza (Israel-Palestine News)
• Another Little Girl Dies from Israeli Strikes on Gaza (Israel-Palestine News)
• Gaza Child Dies from Wounds from Israeli Airstrike on Family Car (Israel-Palestine News)
• Israeli Forces Gun Down Teen, Wound Two Others in Hebron (Israel-Palestine News)
• Massive Israeli Invasion into West Bank Kills 2 Resistance Fighters & 16-yr-old (Israel-Palestine News)
• Gaza Update: Death Toll in Israeli Aggression Reaches 43 Palestinians – Many Children (Israel-Palestine News)

… finally  produce their desired result of a Palestinian retaliation:

• Several Israelis Wounded in Attack on Jerusalem Bus (Aljazeera)

While denying Iranian involvement in the despicable attack on author Salman Rushdie, the spokesman of Iran’s Foreign Ministry threw the blame on Rushdie and his supporters:

• Iran Denies Involvement but Justifies Salman Rushdie Attack (NPR)

The defendant’s attorney objects that absent “sufficient evidence even to charge Defendant with any involvement in the murders, Defendant should not be detained based on supposed involvement”:

• Evidence Ties the Son of the Suspect in the New Mexico Muslim Killings to the Crimes, Authorities Allege (NBC News)

An opera based on the autobiography of “a 19th century Muslim scholar stolen from Senegal and sold into slavery in America … [tells] a largely-forgotten story, informing the history of our multicultural nation”:

• The Opera “Omar,” on a Muslim Slave in America (CBS News)

Resentment against removal of cultural artifacts takes on a special edge when art protesting the occupation ends up in a gallery of the occupying power:

• Lost Banksy Piece Sprayed in Palestine Reappears in Tel Aviv Gallery (The Guardian)

India’s “economic pain has not been evenly distributed, and Muslim Indians are far more pessimistic about their future prospects”:

• Economic Pain Uneven in India’s Muslim and Hindu Populations (Gallup)

“Israelis aren’t shy about speculating that Yair Lapid is using the attack on Gaza to convince doubting Israeli voters that he is bellicose enough to continue leading the country, but US media failed to mention this”:

• Dishonest Coverage by NPR & NY Times of Israel’s Attack on Gaza (Israel-Palestine News)

Combining religion and state results in “a blind, implicit obedience to civil magistracy” that  holds people “in a state of servile dependence” totally ignorant “of every thing divine and human”:

• Islam’s Lessons for Liberalism (Law and Liberty)

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