{"id":3341,"date":"2010-07-06T13:06:46","date_gmt":"2010-07-06T18:06:46","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.minaret.org\/?p=3341"},"modified":"2010-07-06T13:06:46","modified_gmt":"2010-07-06T18:06:46","slug":"news-and-analysis-7610","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blog.minaret.org\/?p=3341","title":{"rendered":"News and Analysis (7\/6\/10)"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>While closing &#8220;proceedings on all the other incidents &#8230; mentioned in the  <a href=\"http:\/\/image.guardian.co.uk\/sys-files\/Guardian\/documents\/2009\/09\/15\/UNFFMGCReport.pdf\" target=\"_blank\">Goldstone Report<\/a>,&#8221; the IDF has filed manslaughter indictments against two soldiers for acts that &#8220;include manslaughter and disobeying a military  directive&#8221;:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.haaretz.com\/news\/diplomacy-defense\/idf-prosecutor-to-bring-new-indictments-against-soldiers-for-conduct-in-gaza-war-1.300373\">IDF Prosecutor To Bring New Indictments Against Soldiers for Conduct in Gaza War<\/a> (Haaretz)<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>&#8220;If we infringe their freedom \u00e2\u20ac\u201d we infringe our freedom,&#8221; says the Reverend Russel Richardson of Grace Baptist Church in Murfreesboro,\u00c2\u00a0Tennessee:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.usatoday.com\/news\/religion\/2010-07-05-newmosques04_ST_N.htm\">Muslims in USA Face Fears, Bias to Build, Expand Mosques<\/a> (USA Today)<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>\u00e2\u20ac\u0153Nasr Abu Zayd is a heroic figure, a scholar who has risked everything to restore the traditions of intellectual inquiry and tolerance that for so long characterized Islamic culture&#8221;:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2010\/07\/06\/world\/middleeast\/06zayd.html?src=mv\">Nasr Abu Zayd, Who Stirred Debate on Koran, Dies at 66<\/a> (New York Times)<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Israel prohibits &#8220;weapons, war material and dual-use items&#8221; into Gaza, which includes fertilizer, lumber, and concrete along with several hundred pages of other banned and restricted items:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.latimes.com\/news\/nationworld\/world\/middleeast\/la-fg-israel-gaza-20100706,0,6498399.story\">Israel Releases Revised List of Items Banned from Gaza<\/a> (Los Angeles Times)<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Not liberal enough? &#8220;His critics in\u00c2\u00a0Egypt\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s Islamist circles note ruefully that Mr. Serageldin, for all his professed devotion to tolerance and freedom of thought, rarely, if ever, invites them to his conferences&#8221;:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2010\/07\/03\/world\/middleeast\/03egypt.html?pagewanted=1&amp;_r=1&amp;ref=islam\">A Voice in Egypt for an Arab Age of Reason<\/a> (New York Times)<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>B&#8217;tselem finds that&#8221;those responsible for Israeli settlements have &#8220;treated international  law, local legislation, Israeli military orders, and Israeli law in an  instrumental, cynical, and even criminal manner&#8221;:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.haaretz.com\/news\/diplomacy-defense\/rights-group-israeli-settlements-control-42-percent-of-west-bank-1.300303\">Rights Group: Israeli Settlements Control 42 Percent of West Bank<\/a> (Haaretz)<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>\u00e2\u20ac\u0153It is not the Promised Land. 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