{"id":1430,"date":"2009-05-17T11:47:26","date_gmt":"2009-05-17T16:47:26","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.minaret.org\/?p=1430"},"modified":"2009-05-17T11:47:26","modified_gmt":"2009-05-17T16:47:26","slug":"news-and-analysis-516-1709","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blog.minaret.org\/?p=1430","title":{"rendered":"News and Analysis (5\/16-17\/09)"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>With <a href=\"http:\/\/blog.minaret.org\/?p=1422\" target=\"_blank\">Obama set to meet with Netanyahu<\/a> tomorrrow&#8230;<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.washingtonpost.com\/wp-dyn\/content\/article\/2009\/05\/16\/AR2009051602170.html\">Gazans Hope U.S. Leader Pushes Israel to Relax Grip<\/a> (Washington Post<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>&#8230; all Palestinians must be reprsented if any progress is to be achieved:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/english.aljazeera.net\/news\/middleeast\/2009\/05\/2009516223012255122.html\">Palestinians Resume Talks in Cairo<\/a> (Al Jazeera)<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>A Pakistani student says, &#8220;we want all nuclear weapons to be restricted for all countries in the world,&#8221; not just Pakistan:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.csmonitor.com\/2009\/0515\/p06s11-wosc.html\">Could Taliban Get Keys to Pakistan&#8217;s A-bomb?<\/a> (Christian Science Monitor)<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>&#8220;Women gained the right to vote and run for office in 2005 but failed in two previous elections to win seats&#8221;<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/aponline\/2009\/05\/17\/world\/AP-ML-Kuwait-Election-Women.html?ref=world\">Kuwaiti Women Win First Parliamentary Seats<\/a> (AP \/ NY Times)<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Reform candidates argue that Ahmadinejad&#8217;s rhetorical excess only helps Israel and isolates Iran while his populist distribution of oil revenues has failed to produce promised jobs:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.latimes.com\/news\/nationworld\/world\/la-fg-iran17-2009may17,0,4289836.story\">Iran President&#8217;s Denial of Holocaust Becomes Campaign Issue<\/a> (LA Times)<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Questions of rule of law and the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.minaret.org\/adoption.htm\" target=\"_blank\">right to adopt in Islam<\/a>:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.washingtonpost.com\/wp-dyn\/content\/article\/2009\/05\/16\/AR2009051601605.html\">Egypt: American Couples on Trial for Adoption<\/a> (Washington Post)<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>With Obama set to meet with Netanyahu tomorrrow&#8230; Gazans Hope U.S. Leader Pushes Israel to Relax Grip (Washington Post &#8230; all Palestinians must be reprsented if any progress is to be achieved: Palestinians Resume Talks in Cairo (Al Jazeera) A Pakistani student says, &#8220;we want all nuclear weapons to be restricted for all countries in [&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-1430","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\/1430","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=1430"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/blog.minaret.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1430\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1432,"href":"https:\/\/blog.minaret.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1430\/revisions\/1432"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.minaret.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1430"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.minaret.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1430"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.minaret.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1430"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}