{"id":12095,"date":"2014-08-05T05:51:00","date_gmt":"2014-08-05T10:51:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.minaret.org\/?p=12095"},"modified":"2014-08-05T05:51:00","modified_gmt":"2014-08-05T10:51:00","slug":"news-and-analysis-8514","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blog.minaret.org\/?p=12095","title":{"rendered":"News and Analysis (8\/5\/14)"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>A truce, a land grab, and war crimes:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.reuters.com\/article\/2014\/08\/05\/us-mideast-gaza-idUSKBN0G008720140805?feedType=RSS&amp;feedName=topNews\">Israel Withdraws Troops, 72-hour Gaza Truce Begins<\/a> (Reuters)<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/commentisfree\/2014\/aug\/05\/gaza-buffer-zone-dennis-kucinich\">Crimes Against Humanity in Gaza: Is It Really a &#8216;Buffer\u00c2\u00a0Zone&#8217; \u00e2\u20ac\u201c or a Bigger Plan?<\/a> (Guardian)<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.csmonitor.com\/World\/Latest-News-Wires\/2014\/0804\/Both-sides-prepare-for-new-Gaza-war-crimes-probe\">Both Sides Prepare for New Gaza War Crimes Probe<\/a> \u00c2\u00a0(Christian Science Monitor)<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>&#8220;All governments lie &#8230;\u00c2\u00a0including Israel and Hamas. But Israel engages in the kinds of jaw-dropping lies that characterize despotic and totalitarian regimes. It does not deform the truth; it inverts it. It routinely paints a picture for the outside world that is diametrically opposed to reality&#8221;:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.truthdig.com\/report\/item\/why_israel_lies_20140803\">Why Israel Lies<\/a> (Truthdig)<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>&#8220;In order to justify the magnitude of violence necessary to uphold persistent contradictions &#8211; to speak of freedom, liberty and self-determination, but to indulge in paternalism, despotism, force and coercion &#8211; it is absolutely necessary first to control and dominate memory&#8221;:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.abc.net.au\/religion\/articles\/2014\/05\/15\/4005394.htm\">Who&#8217;s Afraid of the Islamists? From Attaturk to al-Sisi, from John Dewey to Fox News<\/a>\u00c2\u00a0(abc)<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>A new IS battlefield gain forces Maliki to offer help to the Kurds and\u00c2\u00a0Iran intervens as well:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.reuters.com\/article\/2014\/08\/03\/us-iraq-security-idUSKBN0G20FU20140803?feedType=RSS&amp;feedName=topNews\">Islamic State Grabs Iraqi Dam and Oilfield in Victory over Kurds<\/a>\u00c2\u00a0(Reuters)<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/abcnews.go.com\/International\/wireStory\/iraq-air-force-back-kurds-fighting-islamists-24840469\">Iraq Air Force to Back Kurds Fighting Islamists<\/a>\u00c2\u00a0(AP \/ abc News)<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/uk.reuters.com\/article\/2014\/08\/03\/uk-iraq-security-iran-insight-idUKKBN0G30GG20140803\">Insight &#8211; Iran&#8217;s Elite Guards Fighting in Iraq to Push Back Islamic State<\/a>\u00c2\u00a0(Reuters)<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><span style=\"color: #4a4a4a;\">The survilliance of Muslims in America and \u00c2\u00a0&#8220;particularly politically active ones &#8211; has become a routine practice from sea to shining sea&#8230;\u00c2\u00a0rewarded by intrusive and stigmatizing government scrutiny&#8221;:<\/span><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.newsday.com\/opinion\/oped\/stop-spying-on-american-muslims-who-exercise-their-first-amendment-rights-1.8960007\">Opinion: Stop Spying on American Muslims Who Exercise Their First Amendment Rights<\/a>\u00c2\u00a0(News Day)<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><span style=\"color: #1a1818;\">In Minnesota, &#8220;a group of Muslims is using art to fight misconceptions about Muslim-Americans&#8221;:<\/span><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.minnpost.com\/community-sketchbook\/2014\/08\/walker-art-center-exhibit-showcases-history-diversity-minnesota-muslims\">Walker Art Center Exhibit Showcases History, Diversity of Minnesota Muslims<\/a>\u00c2\u00a0(MinnPost)<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Indian Muslim youth is not immune to ISIS influence, as recently four Indian men from middle class families disappeared from their neighborhoods to go and join the fight in Iraq and Syria with ISIS:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2014\/08\/05\/world\/asia\/india-shaken-by-case-of-muslim-men-missing-in-iraq.html?_r=0\">India Shaken by Case of Muslim Men Missing in Iraq<\/a>\u00c2\u00a0(Asia Pacific)<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><span style=\"color: #000000;\">&#8216;[A] prominent activist, pro-Palestine campaigner and chief executive of the Cordoba Foundation think tank, which fosters relations between the West and &#8216;the Muslim worldA&#8217; received a letter from his bank notifying him that his account was canceled:<\/span><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/news.vice.com\/article\/banks-are-targeting-british-muslim-organizations\">Banks Are Targeting British Muslim Organizations<\/a>\u00c2\u00a0(Vice News)<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Israel is a special state, or rather &#8220;<span style=\"color: #000000;\">small, very close-knit and highly organized ethnic group bent on occupying a specific territory in obedience to ancient religious tradition and highly doubtful historical continuity&#8221;:<\/span><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/rt.com\/op-edge\/177764-israel-palestine-tragedy-argentina\/\">Israel &amp; Palestine: A Tragedy in Three Acts<\/a>\u00c2\u00a0(Russia Today)<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A truce, a land grab, and war crimes: Israel Withdraws Troops, 72-hour Gaza Truce Begins (Reuters) Crimes Against Humanity in Gaza: Is It Really a &#8216;Buffer\u00c2\u00a0Zone&#8217; \u00e2\u20ac\u201c or a Bigger Plan? (Guardian) Both Sides Prepare for New Gaza War Crimes Probe \u00c2\u00a0(Christian Science Monitor) &#8220;All governments lie &#8230;\u00c2\u00a0including Israel and Hamas. But Israel engages in [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":45555,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-12095","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news-and-analysis"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.minaret.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12095","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.minaret.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.minaret.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.minaret.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/45555"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.minaret.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=12095"}],"version-history":[{"count":6,"href":"https:\/\/blog.minaret.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12095\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":12101,"href":"https:\/\/blog.minaret.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12095\/revisions\/12101"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.minaret.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=12095"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.minaret.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=12095"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.minaret.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=12095"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}