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The wall separates farmers’ homes form their farmland, but rather than let them through the gate more than twice a year, the army would have them drive 16 miles each way through a different gate: Should Twice a Year Be Enough for Palestinians to Access Their Own Land? (Haaretz) Released from arrest for running off…

The new bill increase fines for “improper hijab” from a maximum of 500,000 rials ($11.82) to a standard 360 million rials ($8,508) with “harsher penalties for businesses, celebrities, and public figures”: Iran Is About to Make Its Hijab Laws Even Stricter (Time) “Israel has acquiesced in Saudi Arabia enriching uranium for research” but “would not…

“[T]here were no casualties from what was one of the country’s most destructive attacks against Christians”: Pakistan Arrests 129 Muslims After Mob Attacks on Churches and Homes of Minority Christians (WOOD TV) “I would just like to be treated like a human being for once”: A Muslim Social Media Personality Says He Was Forced to…

The DOS “encouraged the Pakistani government … to remove Imran Khan as prime minister over his neutrality on the Russian invasion of Ukraine” … Secret Pakistan Cable Documents U.S. Pressure to Remove Imran Khan (Strategic Culture) … and the self-styled “Islamic Republic” of Pakistan now officially equates American pressure with an Act of God (a/k/a…

“Egypt provides a model for a junta that remained in the good graces of the United States”: Why the U.S. Hasn’t Declared a Coup in Niger (Reason) “They are destroying hotels, shops and homes. There is no appeal and hearing”: Muslim Homes, Shops Bulldozed; over 150 Arrested in Nuh in India’s Haryana (Aljazeera) The new…

“Basri carried out three of those attacks on Jewish sites upon the orders of … an Israeli intelligence officer who supplied Basri with grenades and TNT explosives” and “an order ‘to terrorise and not to kill’”: Zionist Role in 1950s Attacks on Iraqi Jews Confirmed by Operative & Police Report (Israel-Palestine News) “While healthcare organisations…

“The drill comes as thousands of Marines and sailors on both the amphibious assault ship USS Bataan and the USS Carter Hall, a landing ship, are on their way to the Persian Gulf” … Iran’s Revolutionary Guard Runs Drill on Disputed Islands as US Military Presence in Region Grows (AP News) … as the danger…

The economist blames authoritarianism in the Middle East on the absence of Merchant associations, waqf inflexibility , and “apostasy, blasphemy and heresy rules” … Timur Kuran Explores the Political Impact of Islam on the Middle East in New Book (Duke) … case-in-point, the head of Al-Zaytun school facing ” a maximum 10 years in prison…

There was nothing rules-based about flouting “international law by recognizing Israel’s annexation of the Golan Heights and” by unilateral withdrawal from the Iran nuclear agreement: Why the U.S. “Rules-Based Order” Needs Rethinking (The Nation) “An Afghan branch of Islamic State … [targeted] the Jamiat Ulema Islam party [that] has ties to the Afghan and Pakistani…

An Israeli court has given the go-ahead for the forced eviction of 500 Palestinian Bedouins in the Negev/Naqab region, highlighting” Israeli  apartheid: 500 Palestinians Facing Forcible Eviction, Displacement, and Segregation (Amnesty International) The complaint was charges falsehood in published reports “which detailed the October ‘kidnapping’ of a scientist and ‘bans and arrests’ of artists who…