{"id":2885,"date":"2010-03-19T10:39:52","date_gmt":"2010-03-19T15:39:52","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.minaret.org\/?p=2885"},"modified":"2010-03-19T10:39:52","modified_gmt":"2010-03-19T15:39:52","slug":"news-and-analysis-31910","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blog.minaret.org\/?p=2885","title":{"rendered":"News and Analysis (3\/19\/10)"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Hard language demands negotiations within 24 months that will result &#8220;in the emergence of an independent, democratic, and viable Palestinian state living side by side in peace and security with Israel and its other neighbors&#8221;&#8230;<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.guardian.co.uk\/world\/2010\/mar\/19\/israel-backdown-revives-palestinian-talks\">Quartet Blasts Israel Over East Jerusalem Settlements<\/a> (Guardian)<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>&#8230; Meanwhile, Israeli lobbying forces rally to ensure their high level of influence in the US government:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/original.antiwar.com\/lobe\/2010\/03\/16\/us-israel-tensions-continue-to-percolate\/\">US-Israel Tensions Continue to Percolate<\/a> (Antiwar)<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Khamenei&#8217;s strategy focuses on keeping elite Iranians loyal while using the suppression machinery of his regime more than ever before&#8230;<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.csmonitor.com\/World\/Middle-East\/2010\/0318\/Iran-protests-Is-Supreme-Leader-Ali-Khamenei-winning\">Iran Protests: Is Supreme Leader Ali Khamenei Winning?<\/a> (Christian Science Monitor)<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>\u00e2\u20ac\u0153This is not about the opposition Green Movement in Iran now,\u00e2\u20ac\u009d says Ali Akbar Moussavi Khoini, a former member of Parliament. \u00e2\u20ac\u0153This is about democracy and the  fact that when people have access to information, they can make wise  choices.<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2010\/03\/19\/world\/middleeast\/19iran.html?ref=world\">Iran\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s Opposition Seeks More Help in Cyberwar With Government<\/a> (NY Times)<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Although US officials remain skeptical, Kai Eide argues talks with Taliban leadership are the best strategy to end the 8 year conflict:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.guardian.co.uk\/world\/2010\/mar\/18\/pakistan-arrests-taliban-un-envoy\">Pakistan Arrests Put Stop to Taliban Talks \u00e2\u20ac\u201c UN Envoy<\/a> (Guardian)<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>What parallels can be drawn to the US led invasion into the &#8220;Graveyard of Empires?&#8221;<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.csmonitor.com\/World\/Asia-South-Central\/2010\/0318\/Afghanistan-war-lessons-from-the-Soviet-war\">Afghanistan War: Lessons from the Soviet War <\/a>(Christian Science Monitor)<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Hard language demands negotiations within 24 months that will result &#8220;in the emergence of an independent, democratic, and viable Palestinian state living side by side in peace and security with Israel and its other neighbors&#8221;&#8230; Quartet Blasts Israel Over East Jerusalem Settlements (Guardian) &#8230; Meanwhile, Israeli lobbying forces rally to ensure their high level of [&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-2885","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\/2885","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=2885"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/blog.minaret.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2885\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2887,"href":"https:\/\/blog.minaret.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2885\/revisions\/2887"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.minaret.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=2885"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.minaret.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=2885"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.minaret.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=2885"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}