{"id":1556,"date":"2009-06-04T11:13:28","date_gmt":"2009-06-04T16:13:28","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.minaret.org\/?p=1556"},"modified":"2009-06-04T11:15:38","modified_gmt":"2009-06-04T16:15:38","slug":"news-and-analysis-6409","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blog.minaret.org\/?p=1556","title":{"rendered":"News and Analysis (6\/4\/09)"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Compounding the <a href=\"http:\/\/blog.minaret.org\/?p=1557\">shortcomings of Obama&#8217;s assurances<\/a> &#8230;<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.washingtonpost.com\/wp-dyn\/content\/article\/2009\/06\/04\/AR2009060401024.html?hpid=topnews&amp;sid=ST2009060401217\">Obama Calls for New Beginning With World&#8217;s Muslims<\/a> (Washington Post)<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>&#8230; is Congressional support for Israeli expansionism &#8230;<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.latimes.com\/news\/nationworld\/world\/la-fg-us-israel4-2009jun04,0,7197649.story\">Some in Congress Uneasy with Obama&#8217;s Mideast Policy<\/a> (LA Times)<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>&#8230; and the fact that\u00c2\u00a0 &#8220;Mr. Netanyahu has yet to endorse the two-state solution or even the road map agreed to by previous Israeli governments, which were not oral commitments, but actual signed and public agreements&#8221;:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2009\/06\/04\/world\/middleeast\/04israel.html?_r=1&amp;ref=world\">Israelis Say Bush Agreed to West Bank Growth<\/a> (NY Times)<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Filled with personal attacks, the debate between Ahmadinejad and Mousavi reflects the deep divisions among Iranian voters:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.csmonitor.com\/2009\/0604\/p06s01-wome.html\">Lincoln-Douglas Debates, Iranian Style<\/a> (Christian Science Monitor)<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Aida Mansoor uses interfaith dialogue to advance the status of Muslims in American:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/mobile.washingtonpost.com\/detail.jsp?key=395156&amp;rc=al&amp;p=1&amp;all=1\">As the Myths Abound, So Does Islamic Outreach<\/a> (Washington Post)<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Fatah-Hamas relationship continues to be characterized with violence:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/english.aljazeera.net\/news\/middleeast\/2009\/06\/200964123036863645.html\">Deaths in Fatah-Hamas Clashes<\/a> (Al Jazeera)<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>In order to facilitate a transition observing rule of law and due process,<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.guardian.co.uk\/commentisfree\/2009\/jun\/04\/obama-europe-guantanamo-detainees\">Europe Must Help Close Guant\u00c3\u00a1namo<\/a> (Guardian)<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Compounding the shortcomings of Obama&#8217;s assurances &#8230; Obama Calls for New Beginning With World&#8217;s Muslims (Washington Post) &#8230; is Congressional support for Israeli expansionism &#8230; Some in Congress Uneasy with Obama&#8217;s Mideast Policy (LA Times) &#8230; and the fact that\u00c2\u00a0 &#8220;Mr. Netanyahu has yet to endorse the two-state solution or even the road map agreed [&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-1556","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\/1556","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=1556"}],"version-history":[{"count":7,"href":"https:\/\/blog.minaret.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1556\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1567,"href":"https:\/\/blog.minaret.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1556\/revisions\/1567"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.minaret.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1556"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.minaret.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1556"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.minaret.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1556"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}