{"id":20404,"date":"2019-05-12T16:07:34","date_gmt":"2019-05-12T21:07:34","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.minaret.org\/?p=20404"},"modified":"2019-05-12T16:07:36","modified_gmt":"2019-05-12T21:07:36","slug":"news-and-analysis-5-12-19","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blog.minaret.org\/?p=20404","title":{"rendered":"News and Analysis (5\/12\/19)"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>&#8220;According to the UN, more Palestinians have been displaced in East  Jerusalem in the first four months of 2019 than in all of 2018: 193  displaced persons, compared to 176&#8221;:<\/p>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\"><li><a href=\"https:\/\/mondoweiss.net\/2019\/05\/demolitions-jerusalem-officials\/\">Demolitions Spike in East Jerusalem, and UN Officials Call on Israel: \u00e2\u20ac\u02dcThis Must Stop&#8217;<\/a> (Mondoweiss)<\/li><\/ul>\n\n\n\n<p>For Jared Kushner &#8220;to claim [Palestinians] have received more aid than any group in history ignores  the fact that Israel has received far more, year after year, just from  the United States&#8221;:<\/p>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\"><li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonpost.com\/politics\/2019\/05\/08\/have-palestinians-received-more-aid-than-any-group-history\/?utm_term=.0edd31ae18fa\">Have the Palestinians Received \u00e2\u20ac\u02dcMore Aid than Any Group in History\u00e2\u20ac\u2122?<\/a> (Washington Post)<\/li><\/ul>\n\n\n\n<p>It smacks of idolatry, and one Palestinian intellectual calls the booklet&#8217;s distribution suited for tyrannical regimes saying, &#8220;we should educate our  children on the values of liberty, dignity, criticism, freedom of  expression&#8221;: <\/p>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\"><li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.haaretz.com\/middle-east-news\/palestinians\/educational-booklet-on-abbas-draws-fierce-criticism-from-palestinians-1.7222994\">Educational Booklet on Abbas Draws Fierce Criticism from Palestinians<\/a> (Haaretz)<\/li><\/ul>\n\n\n\n<p>&#8220;The deployment of a US aircraft carrier to Iran\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s regional waters is nothing but <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2019\/may\/07\/iran-accuses-us-of-psychological-warfare-with-task-force-deployment\">psychological warfare<\/a>  and part of a plan to intimidate Tehran, the head of the Revolutionary  Guards Corps&#8221; told parliament behinds closed-doors&#8221;:<\/p>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\"><li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2019\/may\/12\/america-war-against-iran-impossible-claims-iranian-general-nuclear-deal-rhetoric\">US War Against Iran Is Impossible, Claims Iranian General<\/a> (Guardian)<\/li><\/ul>\n\n\n\n<p>&#8220;Iran\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s parliament struck a blow for women\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s rights by overwhelmingly  voting to confer citizenship on children born to an Iranian mother and  foreign father&#8221;:<\/p>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\"><li><a href=\"http:\/\/time.com\/5587758\/iran-parliament-mixed-marriages\/\">Iran Parliament Upholds Women&#8217;s Rights in &#8216;Mixed Marriage&#8217; Citizenship Debate<\/a> (Bloomberg \/ Time)<\/li><\/ul>\n\n\n\n<p>&#8220;&#8216;Call me,&#8217; Donald Trump <a href=\"https:\/\/www.cnn.com\/2019\/05\/10\/politics\/white-house-iran-phone-number\/index.html\">said<\/a> to Iran\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s leaders on Wednesday. Unsurprisingly, a top commander in Iran\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps <a href=\"https:\/\/www.apnews.com\/2c52085b08354fcd80fe38402a42e50f\">said<\/a> no&#8221;:<\/p>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\"><li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.theatlantic.com\/politics\/archive\/2019\/05\/us-iran-deal-north-korean-missiles-china-tariffs-politics-daily\/589171\/\">Trump\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s North Korea Playbook Isn\u00e2\u20ac\u2122t Working on Iran<\/a> (The Atlantic)<\/li><\/ul>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&#8220;According to the UN, more Palestinians have been displaced in East Jerusalem in the first four months of 2019 than in all of 2018: 193 displaced persons, compared to 176&#8221;: Demolitions Spike in East Jerusalem, and UN Officials Call on Israel: \u00e2\u20ac\u02dcThis Must Stop&#8217; (Mondoweiss) For Jared Kushner &#8220;to claim [Palestinians] have received more aid [&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-20404","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\/20404","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=20404"}],"version-history":[{"count":8,"href":"https:\/\/blog.minaret.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20404\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":20412,"href":"https:\/\/blog.minaret.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20404\/revisions\/20412"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.minaret.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=20404"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.minaret.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=20404"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.minaret.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=20404"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}