{"id":1288,"date":"2009-04-17T11:05:25","date_gmt":"2009-04-17T16:05:25","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.minaret.org\/?p=1288"},"modified":"2009-04-17T11:05:25","modified_gmt":"2009-04-17T16:05:25","slug":"news-and-analysis-41709","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blog.minaret.org\/?p=1288","title":{"rendered":"News and Analysis (4\/17\/09)"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>As Israel absurdly suggests that the committee headed by Richard Goldstone is biased &#8230;<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/english.aljazeera.net\/news\/middleeast\/2009\/04\/2009416141045482370.html\">Israel Snubs UN Gaza War Inquiry<\/a> (Al Jazeera)<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>&#8230; it pre-emptively sabotages the peace process by demanding that a land of widely mixed heritage and ownership be recognized as a solely Jewish state:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/english.aljazeera.net\/news\/middleeast\/2009\/04\/2009416163550276327.html\">Israel Demands Recognition<\/a> (Al Jazeera)<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Will Obama leverage his non-prosecution of lower level offenders to get evidence against those who gave the orders:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.guardian.co.uk\/world\/2009\/apr\/16\/torture-memos-bush-administration\">Obama Releases Bush Torture Memos<\/a> (Guardian)<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Pakistan is rapidly becoming the AIG of the international community:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/aponline\/2009\/04\/17\/world\/AP-AS-Japan-Pakistan-Donors.html?ref=world\">Donors Pledge Over $5 Billion in Aid to Pakistan<\/a> (AP \/ NY Times)<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>In the emerging <a href=\"http:\/\/blog.minaret.org\/?p=1266\">debate on child marriage<\/a>, lawmaker al-Qadhi\u00c2\u00a0 points out that regulations short of an outright ban won&#8217;t work&#8230; &#8216;Are we going to post a policeman at every bedroom to ensure husbands don&#8217;t consummate marriages before girls reach puberty?'&#8221;:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.washingtonpost.com\/wp-dyn\/content\/article\/2009\/04\/16\/AR2009041603003.html\">Islamists Fight Yemen Law Banning Child Marriage<\/a> (AP \/ Washington Post)<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Iran can offer a cultural bridge, helping American policy\u00c2\u00a0 incorporate an understanding of Afghanistan&#8217;s &#8220;humanity, religion and psychology&#8221;:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.latimes.com\/news\/nationworld\/world\/la-fg-iran-qa17-2009apr17,0,1997319,full.story\">Iranian Scholar has Advice for U.S. on Afghanistan<\/a> (LA Times)<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Muslim organizations agree to cooperate with investigating specific individuals with adequate reason but reject the FBI&#8217;s &#8220;fishing expeditions&#8221;:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.washingtonpost.com\/wp-dyn\/content\/article\/2009\/04\/16\/AR2009041601961.html\">Mich. Muslim Group Says FBI Asking People to Spy<\/a> (AP \/ Washington Post)<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>As Israel absurdly suggests that the committee headed by Richard Goldstone is biased &#8230; Israel Snubs UN Gaza War Inquiry (Al Jazeera) &#8230; it pre-emptively sabotages the peace process by demanding that a land of widely mixed heritage and ownership be recognized as a solely Jewish state: Israel Demands Recognition (Al Jazeera) Will Obama leverage [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":14,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1288","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\/1288","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\/14"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.minaret.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1288"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/blog.minaret.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1288\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1291,"href":"https:\/\/blog.minaret.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1288\/revisions\/1291"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.minaret.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1288"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.minaret.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1288"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.minaret.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1288"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}