News and Analysis (8/19/20)

With Sudan as well as Saudi Arabia lined up to follow in the UAE’s footsteps, Palestinians and Muslim nations outside the Arab world know betrayal when they see it:

• Sudan and Israel Say Talks Underway for Deal to Normalize Ties (Times of Israel)
• Interpreting the UAE/Israel Agreement on Suspending Annexation (Just World Educational)
• Hussain: Arab World Turning Its Back on Palestinians (Toledo Blade)
• Palestinians in Gaza Rally Against Israel-UAE Deal (AP)
• Are We Palestinians Waiting for Godot? (Open Democracy)
• Indonesia’s Muslim Clerics Decry Israel-UAE Deal (Andalu Agency)

At least two businesses in the UAE have received an unpleasant surprise in the wake of their government’s appeasement of Israel’s American protectors:

• US Sanctions UAE-based Firms over Iran’s Mahan Air (Aljazeera)

Pompeo has “every expectation that every country in the world …, including every member of the P5, and every member of the UN,” will do whatever the U.S. tells them too, however reckless or insane:

• Pompeo Says He’ll Go to UN “Soon” to Push for Snapback Sanctions on Iran (CNN)
• Despite U.S. Sanctions Bid, Iran Aims to Keep Nuclear Deal Alive Until U.S. Election (Reuters)

What exactly did Pompeo say to Russia about bounties offered to the Taliban to attack Americans? He appears to be trying to shift blame onto Iran:

• Pompeo Says Threats to US in Afghanistan Raised with Russian Officials (AP/ Military Times)
• Iran Denies Taliban Were Paid Bounties to Target US Troops in Afghanistan (AP/ Military Times)

Criminalizing the already illegal “triple talaq” was more about pulling down Muslim men than saving Muslim women and the Delhi riots investigation is about depicting Muslim women as morons:

• The Idiot Muslim Woman (The Wire)

A government official says the “the government to order the withdrawal of 10,000 troops from the union territory … [is] message [to] people that the government was willing to address their concerns”:

• Centre Withdraws 10,000 Soldiers from Kashmir to Send a Message (Hindustan Times)

To understand why Iranians don’t trust the U.S. government, “start with Coup 53, an exhilarating new historical documentary that unfolds with the pace and complexity of a thriller”:

• ‘Coup 53’ Tells the Story of a 1953 Campaign By MI6 and the CIA to Oust Iran’s Leader (NPR)

Israel denies that it arrested Mahmoud Nawaja for his BDS activism but a military court released him “after 19 days of illegal detention”  with neither charges nor an apology:

• Israel Releases Prominent Palestinian BDS Activist (Times of Israel)

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