{"id":51,"date":"2006-08-23T14:03:27","date_gmt":"2006-08-23T19:03:27","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.minaret.org\/?p=51"},"modified":"2018-02-28T14:37:59","modified_gmt":"2018-02-28T19:37:59","slug":"news-and-analysis-updates-82306","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blog.minaret.org\/?p=51","title":{"rendered":"News and Analysis Updates (8\/23\/06)"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"MsoNormal\">Op-ed discusses the many challenges facing Al-Jazeera in its effort to report the news in the Middle East<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><a target=\"_blank\" href=\"http:\/\/www.washingtonpost.com\/wp-dyn\/content\/article\/2006\/08\/22\/AR2006082200975.html\">Al-Jazeera&#8217;s Tricky Balancing Act<\/a> (Washington Post)<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\">Saad Eddin Ibrahim  describes American led \u00e2\u20ac\u0153 cold war on Muslim democrats\u00e2\u20ac\u009d as increasingly  \u00e2\u20ac\u0153the Arab people do not respect the ruling regimes, perceiving them to be autocratic, corrupt and inept.\u00e2\u20ac\u009d<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><a target=\"_blank\" href=\"http:\/\/www.washingtonpost.com\/wp-dyn\/content\/article\/2006\/08\/22\/AR2006082200978.html\">The &#8216;New Middle East&#8217; Bush Is Resisting<\/a> (Washington Post)<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><!--[if !supportEmptyParas]--><!--[endif]--><\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\">Innocent Muslims being kicked off planes, victims of racial profiling:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><a target=\"_blank\" href=\"http:\/\/www.belfasttelegraph.co.uk\/news\/story.jsp?story=703452\"><span class=\"head1\">Muslim Pilot Reveals Shock at Being Ordered Off Flight<\/span><\/a> (Belfast Telegraph) <a href=\"http:\/\/www.belfasttelegraph.co.uk\/news\/story.jsp?story=703452\"><span style=\"color: windowtext;text-decoration: none\" \/><\/a><!--[if !supportEmptyParas]--> <!--[endif]--><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\">Residents of Southern Lebanon describe how they are still haunted by the &#8220;trappings of war&#8221; despite cease-fire<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><a target=\"_blank\" href=\"http:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2006\/08\/22\/world\/middleeast\/22lebanon.html\">War Lingers in the South of Lebanon<\/a> (NY Times)<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><!--[if !supportEmptyParas]--><!--[endif]--><\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\">Corruption plagues Karzai regime in Afghanistan<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><a target=\"_blank\" href=\"http:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2006\/08\/23\/world\/asia\/23karzai.html?pagewanted=1&amp;ei=5094&amp;en=69d2baaf0b9c2a1f&amp;hp&amp;ex=1156305600&amp;partner=homepage\">Nation Faltering, Afghans\u00e2\u20ac\u2122 Leader Draws Criticism<\/a> (NY Times)<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><!--[if !supportEmptyParas]--><!--[endif]--><\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\">CNN story exposes the continuing danger of unexploded bombs to Lebanese children<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><a target=\"_blank\" href=\"http:\/\/www.rawstory.com\/news\/2006\/VIDEO_Lebanese_children_victims_of_unexploded_0822.html\">VIDEO: Lebanese Children Victims of Unexploded Cluster Bombs<\/a> (The Raw Story)<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Strikes on civilians went beyond &#8220;collateral damage&#8221;:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><a title=\"Amnesty Report Accuses Israel of War Crimes (Guardian Unlimited)\" href=\"http:\/\/www.guardian.co.uk\/israel\/Story\/0,,1856587,00.html\">Amnesty Report Accuses Israel of War Crimes<\/a>\u00c2\u00a0 (Guardian Unlimited)<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Palestinian parliamentarians are just three more to the ten thousand abductees\/hostages held by Israel:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><a title=\"The occupier defines justice\" href=\"http:\/\/www.haaretz.com\/hasen\/spages\/753674.html\">The Occupier Defines Justice <\/a>(Haaretz)<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Op-ed discusses the many challenges facing Al-Jazeera in its effort to report the news in the Middle East Al-Jazeera&#8217;s Tricky Balancing Act (Washington Post) Saad Eddin Ibrahim describes American led \u00e2\u20ac\u0153 cold war on Muslim democrats\u00e2\u20ac\u009d as increasingly \u00e2\u20ac\u0153the Arab people do not respect the ruling regimes, perceiving them to be autocratic, corrupt and inept.\u00e2\u20ac\u009d [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-51","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\/51","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\/5"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.minaret.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=51"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/blog.minaret.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/51\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":18292,"href":"https:\/\/blog.minaret.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/51\/revisions\/18292"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.minaret.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=51"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.minaret.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=51"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.minaret.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=51"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}