{"id":20306,"date":"2019-04-19T06:24:00","date_gmt":"2019-04-19T11:24:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.minaret.org\/?p=20306"},"modified":"2019-04-19T06:24:02","modified_gmt":"2019-04-19T11:24:02","slug":"news-and-analysis-4-19-19","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blog.minaret.org\/?p=20306","title":{"rendered":"News and Analysis (4\/19\/19)"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Candidate Trump correctly stated that American Middle East policy &#8220;made the Middle East more unstable and chaotic than ever before&#8221; but on Tuesday he &#8220;vetoed a resolution to do exactly that&#8221;:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/reason.com\/2019\/04\/16\/so-much-for-the-anti-war-president\/?utm_medium=email\">So Much for the Anti-War President<\/a> (Reason)<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>&#8220;[O]wnership of about 90 percent of land in the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.haaretz.com\/misc\/tags\/TAG-east-jerusalem-1.5598917\">eastern part<\/a> of the city is not listed in the Israel Land Registry, Consequently, Palestinian &#8230; [landowners] cannot submit applications for construction permits&#8221;:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.haaretz.com\/israel-news\/.premium-palestinians-to-resume-building-in-e-j-lem-after-municipality-reapproves-protocol-1.7139426\">Palestinians to Resume Building in East Jerusalem After Municipality Pushes Back Against Far-right Pressure<\/a> (Haaretz)<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>The winner&#8217;s choice of a running mate intolerant of &#8220;Shiites, Ahmadiyya Muslims, LGBTQ people, and more &#8230; <span class=\"pull-quote has-quote\" data-pullquote=\"The choice of Maruf shows how quickly Islamic credentials have become central to authority and credibility in Indonesian politics since the Ahok affair.\">shows how &#8230; Islamic credentials have become central to authority and credibility in Indonesian politics<\/span>&#8220;:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/foreignpolicy.com\/2019\/04\/17\/islamism-is-the-winning-ticket-in-indonesia\/\">Islam Is the Winning Ticket in Indonesia<\/a> (Foreign Policy )<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><span class=\"s1\">Designed &#8220;to target Muslims, especially Muslim women wearing the hijab or niqab, &#8230; in also condemning kippot, the bill inadvertently calls attention to the profound affinity between Islam and Judaism&#8221;:<\/span><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.cjnews.com\/perspectives\/opinions\/weinfeld-bill-21-may-be-a-starting-point-for-a-muslim-jewish-alliance\">Weinfeld: Bill 21 May Be a Starting Point for a Muslim-Jewish Alliance<\/a> (Canadian Jewish News)<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>500 were placed in <a href=\"https:\/\/www.middleeastmonitor.com\/20171122-administrative-detention-a-legal-lethal-tool-of-israeli-repression\/\">administrative detention<\/a>, which allows detainees to be held indefinitely without charge or trial&#8221;:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.middleeastmonitor.com\/20190418-israel-detained-1600-palestinians-230-children-in-2019\/\">Israel Detained 1,600 Palestinians, 230 Children in 2019<\/a> (Middle East Monitor)<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>&#8220;Intelligence officials reportedly were concerned about the report\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s framing, saying they suspected it was painting Iran in a deliberately unflattering light rather than providing an objective assessment&#8221; &#8230;<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/thehill.com\/policy\/international\/middle-east-north-africa\/439470-officials-concerned-state-department\">US Officials Clash over Trump Iran Arms Control Document: Report<\/a> (The Hill)<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>&#8230; meanwhile, designating the IRGC a foreign terrorist organization threatens &#8220;the passage of bills that would have Iran meet international standards for combating money laundering and terrorism financing&#8221;:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.al-monitor.com\/pulse\/originals\/2019\/04\/iran-irgc-fto-designation-fatf-bills-expediency-council.html\">Iranian Hard-liners Leverage IRGC Terrorist Designation to Kill FATF Bills<\/a> (Al-Monitor)<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>&#8220;We do not have free media. We have a state-run TV and radio. If we had 500 media outlets, cyberspace would not have been so congested. [People resort to cyberspace] because they have no other place&#8221;&#8211;Rouhani &#8230;<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.voanews.com\/a\/iran-sinks-in-press-freedom-index-after-jailing-more-journalists-\/4882678.html\">Iran Sinks in Press Freedom Index After Jailing More Journalists<\/a> (VoA)<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>&#8230; like criminalizing women who wear no headscarf, criminalizing those who don&#8217;t &#8220;is an extreme form of gender-based discrimination and cruel, inhuman and degrading treatment that deeply damages women\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s dignity&#8221;:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.amnesty.org\/en\/latest\/news\/2019\/04\/iran-release-womens-rights-defenders-detained-for-peacefully-protesting-against-forced-veiling\/\">Iran: Release Women\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s Rights Defenders Detained for Peacefully Protesting Against Forced Veiling<\/a> (Amnesty International)<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>&#8220;Iranian Foreign Minister Mohammad Javad Zarif said relations with Turkey are the best they\u00e2\u20ac\u2122ve been in decades, while Rouhani struck a conciliatory tone amid Saudi and Emirati flood aid&#8221;:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.al-monitor.com\/pulse\/originals\/2019\/04\/iran-turkey-instex-trade-mechanism-saudi-uae-flood-aid.html\">Iran Sets Up Trade Vehicle with Turkey as Saudi, UAE Send Flood Aid<\/a> (Al-Monitor)<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>\u00e2\u20ac\u0153I think as the world increasingly becomes more polarized, there&#8217;s more people willing to listen to Palestinians&#8221;&#8211;Journalist and filmmaker <a href=\"http:\/\/www.bostonpalestinefilmfest.org\/filmmaker\/mariam-shahin\/\" data-linktype=\"external\" data-val=\"http:\/\/www.bostonpalestinefilmfest.org\/filmmaker\/mariam-shahin\/\">Mariam Shahin<\/a>:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.kcrw.com\/culture\/shows\/scheer-intelligence\/the-destruction-of-palestinians-will-be-israels-undoing\">The Destruction of Palestinians Will Be Israel\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s Undoing<\/a> (KCRW)<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n\n\n<p><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Candidate Trump correctly stated that American Middle East policy &#8220;made the Middle East more unstable and chaotic than ever before&#8221; but on Tuesday he &#8220;vetoed a resolution to do exactly that&#8221;: So Much for the Anti-War President (Reason) &#8220;[O]wnership of about 90 percent of land in the eastern part of the city is not listed [&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-20306","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\/20306","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=20306"}],"version-history":[{"count":9,"href":"https:\/\/blog.minaret.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20306\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":20315,"href":"https:\/\/blog.minaret.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20306\/revisions\/20315"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.minaret.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=20306"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.minaret.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=20306"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.minaret.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=20306"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}