{"id":2356,"date":"2009-10-27T10:53:39","date_gmt":"2009-10-27T15:53:39","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.minaret.org\/?p=2356"},"modified":"2009-10-27T10:53:39","modified_gmt":"2009-10-27T15:53:39","slug":"news-and-analysis-102709","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blog.minaret.org\/?p=2356","title":{"rendered":"News and Analysis (10\/27\/09)"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Disenchanted by US policy, Foreign Service Officer Matthew Hoh resigned citing failure to understand <a href=\"http:\/\/blog.minaret.org\/?p=2230\" target=\"_blank\">the purpose of the Afghan War<\/a>:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.washingtonpost.com\/wp-dyn\/content\/article\/2009\/10\/26\/AR2009102603394.html\">U.S. Official Resigns Over Afghan War<\/a> (Washington Post)<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><span id=\"Htmlphcontrol1\">&#8220;Israel is denying Palestinians adequate access to clean, safe water while allowing almost unlimited supplies to Israeli settlers in the occupied West Bank&#8221; &#8211; Amnesty International<br \/>\n<\/span><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/english.aljazeera.net\/news\/middleeast\/2009\/10\/20091026132714361238.html\">Israel &#8216;Cutting Palestinian Water&#8217;<\/a> (Al Jazeera)<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Officials believing the deal is an attempt to sabotage Iran&#8217;s atomic progress also must realize that such a move would justify future any Iranian Nuclear development:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.washingtonpost.com\/wp-dyn\/content\/article\/2009\/10\/26\/AR2009102602468.html\">Iran Officials Appear Split on Nuclear Plan<\/a> (Washington Post)<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Despite\u00c2\u00a0 near universal literacy  and a low infant mortality\u00c2\u00a0 by regional standards, Gaza&#8217;s economy is in miserable shape with the number of plants down by 90%:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2009\/10\/27\/world\/middleeast\/27gaza.html?ref=world\">Opportunities Fade Amid Sense of Isolation in Gaza<\/a> (NY Times)<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.maannews.net\/eng\/ViewDetails.aspx?ID=235127\">UN Official: Israel Must End Gaza Blockade<\/a> (Ma&#8217;an)<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Arrested under false pretenses and believed to be as young as twelve,<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.latimes.com\/news\/nationworld\/world\/la-fg-afghan-gitmo27-2009oct27,0,64546.story\">Young Afghan Struggles to Adapt After Guantanamo<\/a> (LA Times)<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>The lawyer for al-Yami&#8217;s counterpart in the interview, <span id=\"Span1\">Abdul-Jawad,\u00c2\u00a0 &#8220;<\/span><span id=\"Span1\">urged\u00c2\u00a0the information minister\u00c2\u00a0to intercede with the king to include all those involved in the case<\/span><span id=\"Span1\">&#8220;:<\/span><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/english.aljazeera.net\/news\/middleeast\/2009\/10\/20091026165235248376.html\">Saudi King Spares Journalist Lashes<\/a> (Al Jazeera)<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Disenchanted by US policy, Foreign Service Officer Matthew Hoh resigned citing failure to understand the purpose of the Afghan War: U.S. Official Resigns Over Afghan War (Washington Post) &#8220;Israel is denying Palestinians adequate access to clean, safe water while allowing almost unlimited supplies to Israeli settlers in the occupied West Bank&#8221; &#8211; Amnesty International Israel [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":14,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2356","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\/2356","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\/14"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.minaret.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=2356"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/blog.minaret.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2356\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2358,"href":"https:\/\/blog.minaret.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2356\/revisions\/2358"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.minaret.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=2356"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.minaret.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=2356"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.minaret.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=2356"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}