News and Analysis 6/17/22

Experts say that the bullet that killed a Palestinian-American journalist was “the same [as] used by Israeli forces … designed and manufactured in the United States”:

• Al Jazeera Obtains Image of Bullet that Killed Its Journalist (Aljazeera)

The Biden administration claimed diplomatic immunity for an IMF employee alleged to have tortured an American citizen in Egypt:

• Supreme Court Tortures the Constitution Again (Counterpunch)

Getting an abortion six weeks into pregnancy was not an ethical dilemma for  the daughter of an Egyptian gynecologist whose religious tradition values her life:

• On Abortion, Muslim Americans Say Islamic History Is ‘on the Side of Mercy’ (Religion News Service)

The writer teared up when the heroine’s father quoted the Qur’an verse “If you save one life, you save the world”:

• ‘Ms. Marvel’ Treats Being Muslim as Ordinary — and that Makes It Extraordinary (NPR)

Biden’s trip “is a terrible mistake, especially when an equivalent, if not larger, supply of oil could be unlocked by meeting neighboring Iran’s terms for a new nuclear pact”:

• Don’t Go Joe! Forget the Despotic Saudis, Turn on Iran’s Oil Taps | Opinion (Newsweek)

“[D]uring the last few months, 13 Muslim civilians and six Hindu civilians – including ethnic Kashmiris – were killed by militants” in the BJP created pressure-cooker …

• How Recent Civilian Killings Alter the Course of the Kashmir Conflict (TRT World)

.. and the closing of hundreds of schools will only turn the pressure up further:

• Thousands Of Students At Risk As 300 Jammu And Kashmir Schools Face Closure (NDTV)

The case of tortured and beaten Christian exemplifies “the injustice of the Israeli judicial system and the total control of the Israeli intelligence service of its deliberations” …

• A Humanitarian Is Wrongly Convicted of Helping Besieged Palestinians in Gaza (Religion News Service)

… as another mainstream Christian church joins the call for ending the occupation and South Africa says it knows apartheid when it sees it:

• Lutheran Church Calls for Ending the Israeli Occupation of Palestine (Middle East Monitor)
• South Africa Calls for Holding Israel Accountable for ‘Inhumane Conditions’ Palestinians Live Under (Middle East Monitor)

“The decision not to punish any police commanders overseeing Shireen Abu Akleh’s funeral was actually made in advance of the investigation into the officers’ attacks”:

• Slain Palestinian Journalist Funeral Probe: Israel Police Misconduct Found, but Cops off the Hook (Haaretz)

Undercover Israelis “sneaked into the neighborhood in middle of the night and killed the three young men in cold blood … while they were inside a civilian vehicle”:

• Israeli Occupation Forces Kill Three Palestinians in Jenin (Wafa)

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