News and Analysis 7/28/25

The move follows Google’s crack down “on employees protesting its AI-powered cloud services being used by the Israeli military to carry out a genocide in Gaza”:

• After Partnering with Israel, Google Cloud Supports AI Ambitions of UAE, Accused of Complicity in Sudan Genocide (Prism)

Israeli war crimes continue:

• Two Israeli Human Rights Groups Say Their Country Is Committing Genocide in Gaza (NPR)
• The World Is Horrified by the Hunger in Gaza. Now, More Israelis Are Speaking Out (New Jewish Narrative)
• Israeli Fire Kills Dozens in Gaza, Officials Say, as Aid Delivery Remains Chaotic After New Measures (AP)
• Gaza Officials: 14 Palestinians Die of Starvation in 24 Hours, Including Two Children (Haaretz)
• Israel, Under Pressure, Allows More Aid into Gaza, but U.N. Says It’s a Fraction of What’s Needed (CBS News)
• 147 Palestinians Starve to Death; Netanyahu Denies Starvation in Gaza (Democracy Now!)

“;They came to the wrong place at the wrong time,’ Israel’s Ynet news port quoted an anonymous legal representative involved in the case as saying”:

• Two Americans Detained in Iran on Suspicion of Spying for Israel (Newsweek)

“Despite real restrictions, Iranian women are far from powerless. In fact, they are among the most educated in the region, and in many cases, more educated than Iranian men”:

• Commentary: What the West Got Wrong: Muslim Women Don’t Need Saving—And When They Do, Where Are You? (Fullerton Observer)

“The incident has triggered widespread condemnation and reignited debate over Saudi Arabia’s strict bans on political expression at Islam’s holiest sites”:

• Saudi Forces Arrest Egyptian Pilgrim for Raising Palestinian Flag in Mecca (Kashmir Observer)

“[S]eamlessly bringing together worship and study under one roof…. Its undulating roof arches to shape a grand space for prayer at one end and morphs downward into a slung surface that shelters an intimate space for education at the other”:

• Diller Scofidio + Renfro Completes First Contemporary Women’s Mosque in the Muslim World (Archinect)

“U.N. Secretary-General António Guterres told ministers and diplomats at the opening of the meeting that a two-state solution is further away than ever before”:

• What to Expect, and What Not to, at thepan UN Meeting on an Israel-Palestinian Two-state Solution (AP)

“[I]f we do not make urgent decisions today, we will face a situation in the future that cannot be cured” — President Masoud Pezeshkia:

• Tehran Is at Risk of Running Out of Water Within Weeks (NY Times)

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