{"id":19940,"date":"2019-01-13T07:14:13","date_gmt":"2019-01-13T12:14:13","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.minaret.org\/?p=19940"},"modified":"2019-01-13T07:14:15","modified_gmt":"2019-01-13T12:14:15","slug":"news-and-analysis-1-13-19","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blog.minaret.org\/?p=19940","title":{"rendered":"News and Analysis (1\/13\/19)"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Rubio failed in his attempt to pressure pro-Israeli senators embarrassed that the bill to send Israel $38 billion and to take away Americans&#8217; freedom to boycott its apartheid policies got precedence over ending the shutdown :<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/israelpalestinenews.org\/senate-democrats-again-block-pro-israel-s-1-from-going-to-vote-during-government-shutdown\/?eType=EmailBlastContent&amp;eId=7b1e0fe0-b958-42be-b633-31fc1155ee9c\">Senate Democrats Again Block Pro-Israel S.1 from Going to Vote During Government Shutdown<\/a> (If American Knew)<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p class=\"css-1ygdjhk evys1bk0\">Tarrant County, Texas, Republicans &#8220;voted overwhelmingly against the removal of one of their party leaders &#8230;\u00c2\u00a0not over qualifications or any misdeed &#8230; [but]\u00c2\u00a0whether [his] Muslim faith disqualified him from the job&#8221;:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2019\/01\/10\/us\/muslim-republican-shahid-shafi-texas.html\">Texas Republicans Rally Behind Muslim Official as Some Try to Oust Him Over Religion<\/a> (NY Times)<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>&#8220;A Muslim family went to a hospital in Northern Virginia to celebrate a joyous occasion: the birth of a newborn baby&#8221; but they say that a hospital supervisor told the veiled women, &#8220;&#8216;Nobody wants you here&#8221;:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.nbcwashington.com\/news\/local\/You-Look-Scary-Muslim-Family-Describes-Discrimination-at-Virginia-Hospital-504185771.html\">&#8216;You Look Scary&#8217;: Muslim Family Describes Discrimination at Virginia Hospital<\/a> (NBC Washington)<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Vallelonga apologized especially &#8220;to the brilliant and kind Mahershala Ali, &#8230; all members of the Muslim faith&#8221; and his &#8220;late father who changed so much from Dr. Shirley\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s friendship,&#8221; promising the lesson is not lost on him&#8221;:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2019\/01\/11\/movies\/green-book-writer-apology-anti-muslim-tweet.html\">\u00e2\u20ac\u02dcGreen Book\u00e2\u20ac\u2122 Writer Apologizes for Anti-Muslim Twitter Post From 2015<\/a> (NY Times)<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>In addition to shooting a woman in the head the government wounded over two dozen others, &#8220;including two members of the media and one paramedic&#8221;:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.aljazeera.com\/news\/middleeast\/2019\/01\/israeli-forces-kill-palestinian-woman-gaza-protests-190111154925517.html\">Israeli Forces Kill Palestinian Woman During Gaza Protests<\/a> (Al-Jazeera)<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>&#8220;The British-Iranian dual national <a class=\"u-underline\" title=\"\" href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/news\/2019\/jan\/03\/zaghari-ratcliffe-to-go-on-hunger-strike-in-iranian-jail\" data-link-name=\"in body link\">plans to strike for three days<\/a> in protest against being denied medical care in Tehran\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s Evin prison, but will consider extending the protest if her demands to be seen by a doctor are not met&#8221;:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/news\/2019\/jan\/13\/nazanin-zaghari-ratcliffe-hunger-strike-iran\">Nazanin Zaghari-Ratcliffe \u00e2\u20ac\u02dcFearful\u00e2\u20ac\u2122 as She Prepares for Iran Jail Hunger Strike<\/a> (The Guardian)<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>&#8220;Poland, led by a right-wing populist government, is a long-standing American ally that has better relations with US President Donald Trump than other European powers such as Germany and France&#8221;:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.thenational.ae\/world\/europe\/why-is-poland-washington-s-choice-for-its-iran-focused-global-summit-1.812343\">Why Is Poland Washington\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s Choice for its Iran-focused Global Summit?<\/a> (The National)<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Rubio failed in his attempt to pressure pro-Israeli senators embarrassed that the bill to send Israel $38 billion and to take away Americans&#8217; freedom to boycott its apartheid policies got precedence over ending the shutdown : Senate Democrats Again Block Pro-Israel S.1 from Going to Vote During Government Shutdown (If American Knew) Tarrant County, Texas, [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-19940","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\/19940","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\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.minaret.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=19940"}],"version-history":[{"count":6,"href":"https:\/\/blog.minaret.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19940\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":19946,"href":"https:\/\/blog.minaret.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19940\/revisions\/19946"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.minaret.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=19940"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.minaret.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=19940"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.minaret.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=19940"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}