“Human rights groups have recorded dozens of incidents of the Israeli military using U.S.-made weapons in unlawful ways to injure and kill Palestinian civilians”:<\/p>\n\n\n
“A number of key issues remain unresolved … and Antonio Guterres<\/a>, UN secretary-general, said a framework for political negotiations would be discussed at the next round of talks at the end of January”:<\/p>\n\n\n\n Criticized for incorrectly categorizing the makruh <\/em>or haram <\/em>(discouraged or prohibited) practice of FGM as sunnah <\/em>(accepted), the National Fatwa Committee perversely reclassified the procedure as wajib <\/em>(“obligatory”):<\/p>\n\n\n\n “The notion that a tenured professor’s career could be put in jeopardy because of an ill-considered phrase concluding an otherwise nuanced speech at the U.N. violates every notion of academic freedom that we have”:<\/p>\n\n\n\n “A Palestinian teenager was shot dead during fresh raids by Israeli forces in the occupied West Bank on Friday,” …<\/p>\n\n\n\n … and “Israeli soldiers injured … at least seventeen Palestinians with live fire and rubber-coated steel bullets, and caused many to suffer the effects of teargas inhalation, in several areas of … [the] West Bank,” …<\/p>\n\n\n\n … “settlers threw stones at Palestinian vehicles, … an Arab bus driver was beaten” in an illegal settlement and Israel demolished the house of a man accused of killing an occupation soldier:<\/p>\n\n\n\n