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News and Analysis 4/15/21
The Vienna talks aimed at allowing the US to rejoin the nuclear deal have “fallen into disarray” in the aftermath of an attack on Iran’s Natanz nuclear facility: Iran’s Supreme Leader: Vienna Offers ‘Not Worth Looking At’ (AP News) Europe buys into and the Taliban reject Biden’s plan for a delayed unconditional troop withdrawal: NATO…
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News and Analysis 4/13/21
Israel’s sabotage of Iran threatens regional peace and U.S. diplomacy: EXPLAINER: Iran Atomic Sites Targeted by Diplomacy, Sabotage (AP News) Opinion: Israel’s Relentless Attacks on Iran May Endanger Biden’s Diplomacy (Washington Post) Israel Made ‘Very Bad Gamble’ at Nuclear Plant: Iran (AFP/ Times of India) US Distances Itself from Alleged Attack on Iran’s Nuclear Site…
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Manufacturing Counter-mythology
Manufacturing Counter-mythology [This is a preprint of a book review scheduled for publication in the Molinari Review in May 2021] The Myth of the Andalusian Paradise: Muslims, Christians, and Jews under Islamic Rule in Medieval Spain by DarÃo Fernández-Morera, Wilmington, DE: ISI Books, 2017, 358 pp., US$29.95. ISBN 161017095-4 (hb). Myths are important. Actual myths…
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News and Analysis 4/11/21
The arrest of choreographer Ata Khattab the depth of Israeli fear of Palestinian culture: Threatened by Cultural Defiance, Israel Throws Dancer in Prison (Electronic Intifada) “Attacks against Muslims are attacks against the Republic” — Interior Minister Gerard Darmanin, “the main sponsor of legislation passing through parliament which the government says is designed to tackle what…
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News and Analysis 4/9/21
Amidst almost daily human rights violations … Israeli Settlers Take Control of Palestinian Property and Land in East Jerusalem (Middle East Eye) … Israel refuses to recognize the authority of the tribunal, which plans to investigate “war crimes in the Palestinian territories”: Israel to Tell ICC It Does Not Recognise Court’s Authority (WHBL) “What we’re…
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News and Analysis 4/6/2021
On Monday, Israeli soldiers opened fire on a Palestinian couple, killing the man and wounding his wife with bullets. “They began shooting at us, my husband fell into my lap and was killed”: Israeli Soldiers Kill Palestinian, Wound Wife After Alleged Attack (Haaretz) After indirect talks at Vienna, the U.S and Iran have agreed to…
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News and Analysis 4/4/21
Reports state that two groups of settlers beat a Jalud resident with “sticks and rocks”, to the extent that he required immediate medical attention, then “two Israeli soldiers who reached the scene fired stun grenades at the Jalud residents who came to the Palestinian’s aid”: Settlers Assaulted Palestinian, Israeli Soldiers Dispersed Rescuers, Rights Group Says…
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News and Analysis 4/2/21
U.S. and its allies started the “illegal, undeclared, and criminal” war against the Yemen. Now, Secretary of State Anthony Blinken calls on “’all parties’ to allow unhindered import and distribution of food and fuel” even as U.S. naval blockade prevents “food and fuel from reaching those 20 million Yemenis”: Yemen’s Blood Is on US Hands…
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News and Analysis 3/31/21
A U.S federal judge dismissed a lawsuit filed by the JNF and other Zionist lobbies accusing the US Campaign for Palestinian Rights (USCPR) of engaging in “material support for terrorism†over their support for the Palestinian Boycott, Divestment and Sanctions movement: U.S. Federal Judge Dismisses Lawsuit Filed by Jewish National Fund Against Palestinian Rights Nonprofit…
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News and Analysis 3/29/21
The U.S. claims an “alarming” systematic indoctrination to ISIS ideology is taking place in civilian camps housing “the wives, widows, children and other family members of IS militants” and run by Syrian Kurdish officials: US-Backed Syrian Forces Raid Camp of IS Families, Arrest 9 (AP) As Israeli courts continue to rule in favor of settler…