{"id":309,"date":"2007-05-23T12:05:47","date_gmt":"2007-05-23T17:05:47","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.minaret.org\/?p=309"},"modified":"2007-05-23T12:05:45","modified_gmt":"2007-05-23T17:05:45","slug":"news-and-analysis-52307","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blog.minaret.org\/?p=309","title":{"rendered":"News and Analysis (5\/23\/07)"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span lang=\"EN-GB\">Fighting stops \u00e2\u20ac\u201c at least for now \u00e2\u20ac\u201c but fighting is used by various political parties to call for \u00e2\u20ac\u0153unity\u00e2\u20ac\u009d, outside actors to funnel arms to the government and refugees to flee the fighting:<br \/>\n<\/span><\/p>\n<ul type=\"disc\">\n<li><span lang=\"EN-GB\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.dailystar.com.lb\/article.asp?edition_id=1&#038;categ_id=2&#038;article_id=82456\"><font color=\"#800080\">Fragile Truce Takes Hold in Nahr al-Bared<\/font><\/a> (Lebanon Daily Star)<br \/>\n<\/span><\/li>\n<li><span lang=\"EN-GB\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.dailystar.com.lb\/article.asp?edition_id=1&#038;categ_id=2&#038;article_id=82455\"><font color=\"#800080\">Arabs Send Arms for Army &#8211; and US May Follow Suit<\/font><\/a> (Lebanon Daily Star)<br \/>\n<\/span><\/li>\n<li><span lang=\"EN-GB\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2007\/05\/23\/world\/middleeast\/23cnd-lebanon.html?_r=1&#038;hp=&#038;oref=slogin&#038;pagewanted=print\"><font color=\"#800080\">Refugees Flee During Lull in Lebanon Fighting<\/font><\/a> (New York Times)<br \/>\n<\/span><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><span lang=\"EN-GB\">Iran<\/span><span lang=\"EN-GB\"> entrenches its hardline stances, arresting 4<sup>th<\/sup> Iranian-American in recent weeks right before talks are to begin between Washington and Tehran on Iraq security:<br \/>\n<\/span><\/p>\n<ul type=\"disc\">\n<li><span lang=\"EN-GB\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.washingtonpost.com\/wp-dyn\/content\/article\/2007\/05\/22\/AR2007052201406_pf.html\"><font color=\"#800080\">Tehran Detains 4th Iranian American Before Talks<\/font><\/a> (Washington Post)<br \/>\n<\/span><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><span lang=\"EN-GB\">Israel<\/span><span lang=\"EN-GB\"> threatens to attack <em>political<\/em>, not military wing leaders of Hamas:<br \/>\n<\/span><\/p>\n<ul type=\"disc\">\n<li><span lang=\"EN-GB\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.washingtonpost.com\/wp-dyn\/content\/article\/2007\/05\/22\/AR2007052201497_pf.html\"><font color=\"#800080\">Israel Threatens To Target Hamas Political Leaders<\/font><\/a> (Associated Press\/Washington Post)<br \/>\n<\/span><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><span lang=\"EN-GB\">Op-ed in the CS Monitor explores the roots of terrorism in Western countries and puts current concerns about radical Islamist terrorism in historical and comparative perspective:<br \/>\n<\/span><\/p>\n<ul type=\"disc\">\n<li><span lang=\"EN-GB\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.csmonitor.com\/2007\/0523\/p09s01-coop.htm\"><font color=\"#800080\">How Terrorism Finds Root in the West<\/font><\/a> (Christian Science Monitor)<\/span><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Fighting stops \u00e2\u20ac\u201c at least for now \u00e2\u20ac\u201c but fighting is used by various political parties to call for \u00e2\u20ac\u0153unity\u00e2\u20ac\u009d, outside actors to funnel arms to the government and refugees to flee the fighting: Fragile Truce Takes Hold in Nahr al-Bared (Lebanon Daily Star) Arabs Send Arms for Army &#8211; and US May Follow Suit [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":7,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-309","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\/309","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\/7"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.minaret.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=309"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/blog.minaret.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/309\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.minaret.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=309"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.minaret.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=309"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.minaret.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=309"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}