{"id":19948,"date":"2019-01-16T12:25:33","date_gmt":"2019-01-16T17:25:33","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.minaret.org\/?p=19948"},"modified":"2019-01-16T12:25:34","modified_gmt":"2019-01-16T17:25:34","slug":"news-and-analysis-1-16-19","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blog.minaret.org\/?p=19948","title":{"rendered":"News and Analysis (1\/16\/19)"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>PA serves as Israel&#8217;s dirty work torturing a former resident of New Jersey for charitable work on behalf families of Palestinians held in Israeli prisons, Amnesty International demands humane treatment and a fair trial &#8230;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\"><li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.amnesty.org\/en\/latest\/news\/2018\/12\/palestine-social-justice-activist-tortured-and-punished-for-going-on-hunger-strike\/\">Palestine: Social Justice Activist Tortured and Punished for Going on Hunger Strike<\/a> (Amnesty International)<\/li><\/ul>\n\n\n\n<p>&#8230; while Israel itself fines <a href=\"https:\/\/www.haaretz.com\/misc\/tags\/TAG-west-bank-1.5598977\">West Bank<\/a> Palestinians for offenses, most of which  &#8220;don\u00e2\u20ac\u2122t involve the harming of people or property&#8221;:<\/p>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\"><li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.haaretz.com\/israel-news\/.premium-in-three-years-israeli-military-courts-have-fined-palestinians-16-million-1.6830009\">In Three Years, Israeli Military Courts Have Fined Palestinians $16 Million<\/a> (Haaretz) <\/li><\/ul>\n\n\n\n<p>&#8230; and demonstrators against a 9% social security tax &#8220;who called the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.haaretz.com\/misc\/tags\/TAG-palestinian-authority-1.5598923\">Palestinian Authority<\/a> a &#8216;gang of thieves,&#8217; seemed to represent a prevailing mood of total distrust in the government&#8221;:<\/p>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\"><li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.haaretz.com\/middle-east-news\/palestinians\/.premium-thousands-of-palestinians-strike-in-west-bank-over-pa-social-security-law-1.6846695\">Thousands of Palestinians Strike in West Bank over PA Social Security Law<\/a> (Haaretz)<\/li><\/ul>\n\n\n\n<p>The FBI declines to comment on the Iranian report that a journalist who has reported on &#8220;discrimination against women, Muslims and African-Americans in the&#8221; U.S. has been arrested without charge and mistreated:<\/p>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\"><li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.huffingtonpost.com\/entry\/us-police-arrest-journalist_us_5c3ecd73e4b0922a21d9f25e\">U.S. Police Arrest Journalist Working for Iran\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s State TV, Broadcaster Says<\/a> (Huffington Post)<\/li><\/ul>\n\n\n\n<p>Bolton&#8217;s use of the NSC &#8220;to bend US foreign policy to his will \u00e2\u20ac\u201d and especially toward a much  harder stance against Iran \u00e2\u20ac\u201d all under President Trump\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s nose &#8230; [would have him fired] in any other administration&#8221;:<\/p>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\"><li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.vox.com\/world\/2019\/1\/14\/18181962\/iran-news-bolton-strike-pentagon-trump-mattis\">John Bolton\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s Obsession with Fighting Iran Is Making Trump Policy More Dangerous<\/a> (Vox)<\/li><\/ul>\n\n\n\n<p>&#8220;Building Blocks of Islam &#8230; extended its hospitality at the airport by donating 400 sambusas Tuesday. The pans of the savory pastry arrived with a note from the &#8216;Muslim Community of MN'&#8221;:<\/p>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\"><li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.mprnews.org\/story\/2019\/01\/15\/airlines-muslim-community-donate-food-to-fed-airport-workers\">Airlines, Muslim Community Donate Food to Federal Airport Workers<\/a> (MPR News)<\/li><\/ul>\n\n\n\n<p>&#8220;Grand Mufti M. T. Azabagi\u00c4\u2021, who argued in the 1880s that a Muslim can in fact live happily under a tolerant non-Islamic state &#8216;where he is neither abused nor insulted for his acts of devotion'&#8221;:<\/p>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\"><li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.theatlantic.com\/international\/archive\/2019\/01\/bosnia-offers-model-liberal-european-islam\/579529\/\">Want to Cultivate a Liberal European Islam? Look to Bosnia<\/a> (The Atlantic)<\/li><\/ul>\n\n\n\n<p>Netanyahu has pushed &#8220;Western countries to impose tough economic sanctions on Iran and to cut business ties with Iranian companies. Apparently, though, this does not apply to doing business in Israel&#8221;:<\/p>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\"><li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.jpost.com\/Israel-News\/Govt-document-Israel-okay-doing-business-with-companies-working-in-Iran-577389\">Israel Okays Signing Deals with Companies Working in Iran, Gov\u00e2\u20ac\u2122t Reveals<\/a> (Jerusalem Post)<\/li><\/ul>\n\n\n\n<p>&#8220;[T]he British-Iranian woman held by Tehran, started a hunger strike after  her interrogators tried to persuade her to become a spy, her husband has  claimed&#8221;:<\/p>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\"><li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/news\/2019\/jan\/14\/nazanin-zaghari-ratcliffe-health-fears-over-iran-jail-hunger-strike\">Nazanin Zaghari-Ratcliffe Was Told to Spy for Iran, Says Husband<\/a> (Guardian)<\/li><\/ul>\n\n\n\n<p>By conflating anti-Zionism with anti-Semitism, &#8220;the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.aljazeera.com\/news\/2017\/12\/austria-set-enter-government-171216054027062.html\">far right in Austria<\/a> and <a href=\"https:\/\/www.aljazeera.com\/indepth\/opinion\/east-germany-stronghold-180914121858728.html\">Germany<\/a> &#8230; try to absolve  themselves and their predecessors of wrongdoing&#8221;:<\/p>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\"><li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.aljazeera.com\/indepth\/opinion\/blaming-european-anti-semitism-palestinians-muslims-190108114821148.html\">Blaming European Anti-Semitism on Palestinians and Muslims<\/a> (Al-Jazeera)<\/li><\/ul>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>PA serves as Israel&#8217;s dirty work torturing a former resident of New Jersey for charitable work on behalf families of Palestinians held in Israeli prisons, Amnesty International demands humane treatment and a fair trial &#8230; Palestine: Social Justice Activist Tortured and Punished for Going on Hunger Strike (Amnesty International) &#8230; while Israel itself fines West [&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-19948","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\/19948","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=19948"}],"version-history":[{"count":8,"href":"https:\/\/blog.minaret.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19948\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":19956,"href":"https:\/\/blog.minaret.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19948\/revisions\/19956"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.minaret.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=19948"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.minaret.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=19948"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.minaret.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=19948"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}