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“The drill comes as thousands of Marines and sailors on both the amphibious assault ship USS Bataan and the USS Carter Hall, a landing ship, are on their way to the Persian Gulf” … Iran’s Revolutionary Guard Runs Drill on Disputed Islands as US Military Presence in Region Grows (AP News) … as the danger…

The economist blames authoritarianism in the Middle East on the absence of Merchant associations, waqf inflexibility , and “apostasy, blasphemy and heresy rules” … Timur Kuran Explores the Political Impact of Islam on the Middle East in New Book (Duke) … case-in-point, the head of Al-Zaytun school facing ” a maximum 10 years in prison…

There was nothing rules-based about flouting “international law by recognizing Israel’s annexation of the Golan Heights and” by unilateral withdrawal from the Iran nuclear agreement: Why the U.S. “Rules-Based Order” Needs Rethinking (The Nation) “An Afghan branch of Islamic State … [targeted] the Jamiat Ulema Islam party [that] has ties to the Afghan and Pakistani…

An Israeli court has given the go-ahead for the forced eviction of 500 Palestinian Bedouins in the Negev/Naqab region, highlighting” Israeli  apartheid: 500 Palestinians Facing Forcible Eviction, Displacement, and Segregation (Amnesty International) The complaint was charges falsehood in published reports “which detailed the October ‘kidnapping’ of a scientist and ‘bans and arrests’ of artists who…

A Shia community leader says India’s prohibition of speech “about the situation or against the establishment … doesn’t serve the purpose of a procession of this nature”: Shia Mourners in Kashmir Allowed Muharram Procession After Three Decades (Aljazeera) When the iconclastic singer first read the Qur’an she realized, “Oh my God, I am home” ……

Opposition member Ofer Kassif says there is “penetration of the occupation system culture” from the Palestinian territories into Israel itself demonstrated the current government is “fascist” … Israeli Parliament Passes Divisive Law Weakening Supreme Court (Aljazeera) … but however bad the impact on Jews, the Palestinians believe the new law will hit them hardest: ‘We…

Israeli theft of Palestinian history takes some literal turns: Israel’s ‘National Treasures’ Kept by Trump Might Be Stolen from the Palestinians (Palestine Chronicle) PA Warns of Israel’s Plan to Take over Palestine Archaeological Sites (Middle East Monitor) Although “at the lowest point of its almost centennial history, … [the Muslim Brotherhood] will most likely bounce…

He had “published a short video disputing a claim made by the spokesperson of the Palestinian security services that there were no political detainees in their prisons”: West Bank: Outrage After Palestinian Authority Forces Arrest Journalist (Middle East Eye) “[T]he administration has directed the varsity authorities to stop teaching this type of literature as the…

The man sought the permit to prove a point by not using it: ‘I’m a Muslim, I Can’t Burn Sacred Books’: Sweden Man Says Won’t Burn Torah (TRT World) Israel is as eager to eraser the history of Palestinians as to erase their villages and the people themselves: How Israel Weaponises Museums to Erase Palestinian…

After killing an autistic man, Israelis now harass a young man with Down syndrome … Palestinian Youth with Down Syndrome Summoned for Questioning by Israeli Forces in Jerusalem (Palestine Chronicle) … while “settlers, escorted by Israeli occupation forces broke into [a family’s] house and forcibly evacuated its residents while detaining the activists supporting the family”:…