News and Analysis 12/1/21

The Post article on B’Tselem’s report on settler violence “buries the critical issue: the charge that the Israeli government ‘fully supports and assists’ the violence as a means of removing Palestinians” from their land:

• ‘Settler Violence Is Part of Israel’s Official Policy,’ Experts Say — but ‘Washington Post’ Buries that Angle (Mondoweiss)

“[T]he rapidly changing regional landscape … is precisely why [Iran] cannot compromise in nuclear talks” …

• Iran Feels Cornered by the Biden Administration (The Atlantic)

… and between the green light U.S. withdrawal from the treaty gave to Iranian nuclear development and the degree to which its bullying has left no room for additional sanctions at a time of reduced Middle East presence there is no realistic alternative to diplomacy:

• Getting to ‘No’ With Iran (War on the Rocks)

A 45% unemployment (67% for women and young people), frequent electricity cutoffs, 97% levels of water contamination, and constant risk of death by “Israeli airstrike, drone attack or artillery fire” account for youths’ attempt to escape on “death boat”:

• Escaping One Hell for Another: Why Gazans Are Dying at Sea to Be Free (New Arab)

“[W]ith rare exceptions (Turkey, Indonesia, Malaysia) Muslim states helped defend the genocide, and even those three refused to” sign “a letter to the UN human rights chief condemning China’s actions in Xinjiang”:

• The Uighurs and the Question of Muslim Solidarity (CFR)

“The battle over Sheikh Jarrah is not legal in its essence, it is political. It is part of the larger systematic essence to Israelize the entirety of Jerusalem, my native city”:

• ‘I Don’t Care Whom I Offend’: Mohammed El-Kurd Tells UN on Palestine Day (Palestine Chronicle)

“The journalists told Euro-Med that Israeli officers notified them that the travel ban against them could only be removed if they report security information about Palestinians to the Israeli intelligence or work for Israel”:

• Rights Group Accuses Israel of Blackmailing Palestinian Journalists (Anadalu Agency)

“Even stories which report on a Muslim having achieved something noteworthy are framed by their supposed embrace of western liberal values whilst breaking free of the shackles of their own faith or tradition” — authors of Centre for Media Monitoring report:

• Sunday Times Editor Admits Report on Media Coverage of Islam Has ‘Valid Criticisms’ (The Guardian)

In the last month four Palestinians (including two children) and one Israeli were killed and 90 Palestinians (including 12 children) and fifteen Israelis (including six ISF members) were injured. A UN official warns that it will get worse without “quick action”:

• Israel-Palestine: Risk of ‘Deadly Escalation’ in Violence, Without Decisive Action (UN)

“Clashes erupted between Iranian soldiers and Taliban forces near the Afghanistan-Iran border, but appear to have led to no casualties and was later described as a ‘misunderstanding’”:

• Iran and Taliban Forces Clash in Border Area (Aljazeera)

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