“Human rights groups have recorded dozens of incidents of the Israeli military using U.S.-made weapons in unlawful ways to injure and kill Palestinian civilians”:
- Inside Sources Say the State Dept Refuses To Trace Whether Israel Is Using U.S. Military Aid Illegally (In These Times)
“A number of key issues remain unresolved … and Antonio Guterres, UN secretary-general, said a framework for political negotiations would be discussed at the next round of talks at the end of January”:
Criticized for incorrectly categorizing the makruh or haram (discouraged or prohibited) practice of FGM as sunnah (accepted), the National Fatwa Committee perversely reclassified the procedure as wajib (“obligatory”):
- Female Genital Mutilation Forbidden in Islam (New Straits Times)
“The notion that a tenured professor’s career could be put in jeopardy because of an ill-considered phrase concluding an otherwise nuanced speech at the U.N. violates every notion of academic freedom that we have”:
- Free Speech, Unless You’re Advocating for Palestine (Pacific Standard)
“A Palestinian teenager was shot dead during fresh raids by Israeli forces in the occupied West Bank on Friday,” …
… and “Israeli soldiers injured … at least seventeen Palestinians with live fire and rubber-coated steel bullets, and caused many to suffer the effects of teargas inhalation, in several areas of … [the] West Bank,” …
… “settlers threw stones at Palestinian vehicles, … an Arab bus driver was beaten” in an illegal settlement and Israel demolished the house of a man accused of killing an occupation soldier:
- Fresh Wave of Violence Erupts Between Israelis and Palestinians (Deutsche Welle)
“With the US government’s recent sanction on Iran, it is unclear if spare parts for the Renton, Washington-assembled jet, can be procured”:
