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News and Analysis 8/1/22
In his power grab, Tunisia’s strong man has cut off most means of peaceful dissent: ‘There Is No Other Way’: Tunisian Judges on Hunger Strike for Democracy (Washington Post) Israeli police arrested a Palestinian construction worker after Facebook mistakenly translated his greeting “Good morning” in Arabic as “attack them” in Hebrew: Big Tech Builds AI…
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Tunisia’s Authoritarian Turn
[On July 19, 2022, the Cato Institute held a panel discussion on Tunisia’s Authoritarian Turn, moderated by Mustafa Akyol, Senior Fellow at Cato’s Center for Global Liberty and Prosperity. These notes are a summary of the highlights of the discussion and are not intended to be a transcript of the event. Radwan A. Masmoudi (Founder…
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News and Analysis 7/29/22
“[T]he United States has failed to conduct its own investigations into previous killings of American citizens by Israeli soldiers”: ‘We Want to Know’: Shireen Abu Akleh’s Family Demands US Probe (Aljazeera) “The Supreme Court ruled the government needs a warrant to get your location data. But ICE is getting warrantless access anyway”: ICE Doesn’t Need…
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News and Analysis 7/26/22
Tunisian democracy “was dealt a crushing defeat today – not with the bang of a military coup, but with a whimper of apathy at the ballot box”: Democracy Falls Quietly in Tunisia, Yet It Reverberates Around Region (Christian Science Monitor) “Israel confiscated 35 per cent of it under the pretext of ‘public interest’. However, the…
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News and Analysis 7/24/22
Remember the Israeli “art students” who danced on a rooftop when planes crashed into the WTC? They are part of “the largest case of Israeli spying in the United States – that has been made public – since 1986”: An Enigma: Vast Israeli Spy Network Dismantled in US (Le Monde / Antiwar.com) The teen said…
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News and Analysis 7/21/22
“[T]he letter implies that the very act of collecting [attorney’s] fees could amount to a security offense, which carry a severe penalty in Israel”: Israel Sends Veiled Threat to Attorneys of Outlawed Palestinian NGOs (972 Magazine) The fact-checker used “the term ‘hatemongers’ for three Hindu monks who made inflammatory comments about Muslims, with at least…
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News and Analysis 7/17/22
“The two-state solution died a long time ago, and now so has the Palestinians’ strategic choice of relying on the West in their struggle for their national rights” … In Jerusalem, Biden Signs the Palestinians’ Death Certificate (Haaretz) … Biden and Lapin affirmed “that they will continue to work together to” defend Israeli apartheid from…
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News and Analysis 7/13/22
Notwithstanding France’s pseudo-secular refusal to tracking the religious identity of prisoners, a sociologist “has found that roughly half of the 69,000 people incarcerated today in France are Muslims of Arab descent“: Cannabis Prohibition in France Has Disproportionately Punished its Muslim Minority (The Conversation / RNS) “[T]he U.S.-backed Syrian Democratic Forces (SDF) … declared a state…
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News and Analysis 7/10/22
“No matter how the question was phrased, less than a quarter of Americans approve of the president’s trip to Israel and Saudi Arabia” … Americans Aren’t Very Happy About Biden’s Middle East Visit: Poll (Responsible Statecraft) … and Biden’s excuses don’t cut it: Biden’s Excuses (Minaret of Freedom Institute) Leaving Gaza to study in Turkey…
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Biden’s Excuses
President Biden has received a great deal of criticism for including Saudi Arabia in his planned trip to the Middle East later this week. Today’s Washington Post features his answer in the form of an op-ed called “Why I’m Going to Saudi Arabia.” The first paragraph asserts that his purpose is to “advance important American…
