{"id":20294,"date":"2019-04-16T12:38:22","date_gmt":"2019-04-16T17:38:22","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.minaret.org\/?p=20294"},"modified":"2019-04-16T12:38:22","modified_gmt":"2019-04-16T17:38:22","slug":"news-and-analysis-4-16-19","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blog.minaret.org\/?p=20294","title":{"rendered":"News and Analysis (4\/16\/19)"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>&#8220;A fire broke out at Al-Marwani Prayer Room in the Al-Aqsa Mosque compound yesterday, at the same time as the world watched Paris\u00e2\u20ac\u2122 iconic Notre Dame Cathedral engulfed in flames&#8221;:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.middleeastmonitor.com\/20190416-palestinians-tackle-blaze-at-mosque-in-al-aqsa\/\">Palestinians Tackle Blaze at Mosque in Al-Aqsa<\/a> (Middle East Monitor)<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>&#8220;Omar was arguably incautious with her choice of words&#8230; , but those who dragged her for this were engaged in &#8216;patriotic correctness,&#8217; a right-wing variety of political correctness&#8221;:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/reason.com\/2019\/04\/15\/ilhan-omar-some-people-trump-tweet\/?utm_medium=email\">The Ilhan Omar \u00e2\u20ac\u02dcSome People Did Something\u00e2\u20ac\u2122 Controversy Is Bad-Faith Outrage-Mongering on All Sides<\/a> (Reason)<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>&#8220;The counsel informed the bench that Muslim women were allowed to enter a mosque at the holy Mecca and also in Canada&#8221;:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.businesstoday.in\/current\/economy-politics\/sc-agrees-to-hear-plea-seeking-muslim-women-entry-to-mosques-offer-prayers\/story\/337672.html\">SC Agrees to Hear Plea Seeking Muslim Women&#8217;s Entry to Mosques, Offer Prayers<\/a> (Business Today)<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>The Urdu language Pakistani program aired in Britain contained vicious, unsubstantiated and even absurd (e.g., that the repressed Ahmadis enjoy a favored status over other Muslims in Pakistan) allegations:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2019\/apr\/15\/uk-based-tv-station-channel-44-fined-anti-ahmadi-muslim-hate-speech\">UK-based TV Station Fined for Anti-Ahmadi Muslim Hate Speech<\/a> (The Guardian)<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>\u00e2\u20ac\u0153For the first time ever in the Israeli prisons, Israel agreed on installing payphones in the prisoners\u00e2\u20ac\u2122 cells\u00e2\u20ac\u009d to allow them to speak to their families after they threatened to escalate the no-food strike to a no-water strike:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.palestinechronicle.com\/palestinian-prisoners-end-hunger-strike-after-israel-accepts-their-demands\/\">Palestinian Prisoners End Hunger Strike After Israel Accepts Their Demands<\/a> (Palestine Chronicle)<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>&#8220;Amnesty International decried the &#8216;mockery of justice&#8217; and &#8216;mass arbitrary denaturalisation'&#8221;:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.dawn.com\/news\/1476503\">Bahrain Jails 138 for Planning Iran-linked &#8216;Terror&#8217; Group<\/a> (AFP\/Dawn)<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>U.S. blindness to the reality of Israeli occupation and to Palestinian politics means it cannot succeed in resolving the conflict:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.vox.com\/world\/2019\/4\/15\/18306224\/palestinians-israel-khaled-elgindy-blind-spot\">The Israeli-Palestinian Peace Process Is Dead. An Expert Explains Why<\/a> (Vox)<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>&#8220;Airbnb cannot wash its hands by donating profits from unlawful settlement listings. So long as they continue to broker rentals on land stolen from Palestinians &#8230; they remain complicit in the abuses&#8221;:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.thenation.com\/article\/airbnb-settlement-lawsuit-palestinian-challenge\/\">Airbnb May Have Caved to Israel\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s Settler Movement, but Palestinians Aren\u00e2\u20ac\u2122t Giving Up<\/a> (The Nation)<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Netanyahu&#8217;s &#8220;idea is to promote the lie that Iran could be hiding evidence of a nuclear project to back up the president\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s statements about how we can\u00e2\u20ac\u2122t trust intelligence sources or the IAEA&#8221;:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/washingtonmonthly.com\/2019\/04\/15\/fabricating-evidence-to-justify-an-attack-on-iran\/\">Manipulating Evidence to Justify an Attack on Iran<\/a> (Washington Monthly)<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&#8220;A fire broke out at Al-Marwani Prayer Room in the Al-Aqsa Mosque compound yesterday, at the same time as the world watched Paris\u00e2\u20ac\u2122 iconic Notre Dame Cathedral engulfed in flames&#8221;: Palestinians Tackle Blaze at Mosque in Al-Aqsa (Middle East Monitor) &#8220;Omar was arguably incautious with her choice of words&#8230; , but those who dragged her [&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-20294","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\/20294","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=20294"}],"version-history":[{"count":11,"href":"https:\/\/blog.minaret.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20294\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":20305,"href":"https:\/\/blog.minaret.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20294\/revisions\/20305"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.minaret.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=20294"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.minaret.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=20294"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.minaret.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=20294"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}