News and Analysis (1/30/20)

Trump plan summary: “1) Palestinians get the trappings of statehood but no state whatsoever 2) Israel will maintain all security control, including over coastal waters, airspace, electromagnetic spectrum and everything” …

• A Quick Thread Summarizing the Basic Aspects of the Trump Anti-peace Plan (Hussein Ibish Blog)

… and condemnation of the plan is widespread ranging from Iran’s FM to a leading America neoconservative voice:

• Iran Foreign Minister Calls Trump Peace Plan for Middle East ‘Delusional’: Tweet (Middle East Monitor)
• Trump’s ‘Peace Plan’: The Farce, the Fraud and the Fury (Al-Jazeera)
• Trump’s “Deal of the Century” Is Outright Apartheid (with Link to Full Text) (If Americans Knew)
• Top 5 Ways Trump Plan for Palestinians Is a Crime Against Humanity (Informed Comment)
• President Trump’s Deal of the Century is a Recipe for More Injustice (American Human Rights Council)
• One State: A Vision for Palestinians That Is Not Trump’s (Common Dreams)
• What Trump and Netanyahu Just Unveiled Was a PR Campaign, Not a Peace Plan (Washington Post)

Jared Kushner’s contempt for the Palestinians …

• Jared Kushner: Palestinians Have Never Done Anything Right in Their Sad, Pathetic Lives (Vanity Fair)

… proves that he doesn’t understand that “Palestinians are not striving to improve the conditions of their imprisonment, we want the return of our refugees and the end of the occupation”:

• Trapped and Voiceless: The Palestinians Depicted in Trump’s Plan (Al-Jazeera)

After Trump’s expansion of his travel ban, the House of Representative introduces the No Ban Act to repeal the discriminatory Muslim Ban and limit the president from future religious restrictions:

• Muslim Ban: US House to Vote on Bill to Repeal Trump’s Travel Ban (Al-Jazeera)

Senators emerged from an Iran briefing Tuesday frustrated by what they described as the Trump administration’s persistent unwillingness to engage Congress on military decisions …

• Trump Officials frustrate Senators with Iran Briefing, as House Readies Votes to Restrain Further Hostilities (Washington Post)

… while Republicans, desperate to defend Trump’s unconstitutional war-making, pretend the Democrats use of traditional tactics are some kind of precedent:

• GOP Fumes over Democrats’ Maneuver for Bringing Up Iran Bills (The Hill)

The number keeps rising:

• Pentagon Now Says 50 Troops — Not 34 — Suffered Brain Injuries in Iran Strike (NPR)

According to Quora moderators, “[I]f you write a lot of content that is anti-Zionist and then call out people for being Zionists, then you’re using this term in a pejorative way with the intent to derogatorily label that person”:

• Retired Professor Sues for Reinstatement on Quora After ‘Palestine’ Banning (Mondoweiss)

Contemporary Muslim Fashions at the Young Museum could make a global turning point in fashion:

• Cooper-Hewitt, Smithsonian Design Museum Plans ‘Contemporary Muslim Fashions’ Show (WWD)