{"id":5495,"date":"2011-10-19T13:44:47","date_gmt":"2011-10-19T18:44:47","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.minaret.org\/?p=5495"},"modified":"2011-10-19T13:44:47","modified_gmt":"2011-10-19T18:44:47","slug":"news-and-analysis-101911","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blog.minaret.org\/?p=5495","title":{"rendered":"News and Analysis (10\/19\/11)"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>When Gilad Schalit sat down minutes after crossing into Israel for his first conversation with an IDF psychologist, he smiled and said to the doctor: \u00e2\u20ac\u0153I knew you would be surprised by my condition\u00e2\u20ac\u009d &#8230;<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.jpost.com\/Defense\/Article.aspx?id=242329\">Schalit\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s Captivity: No Sunlight but Given Radio, TV<\/a> (Jerusalem Post)<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>&#8230; but Nael Barghouti, released after 33 years of imprisonment complains that his brother arrested without charge a year ago remains in prison with 5,000 other\u00c2\u00a0 Palestinians, with his &#8220;period of &#8216;administrative detention&#8217; increased this week. It has been this way for him for the last 23 years, on and off&#8221;:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.smh.com.au\/world\/palestinians-release-after-decades-proves-bittersweet-20111019-1m83d.html\">Palestinians&#8217; Release After Decades Proves Bitter-sweet<\/a> (Sydney Morning Herald)<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>As Tunisia struggles to harvest the fruits of its revolution, Al Nahda condemns those protests of a screening of Persepolis on Tunisian TV, but says \u00e2\u20ac\u0153the screening was a provocation\u00e2\u20ac\u009d:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>&#8216;<a href=\"http:\/\/www.guardian.co.uk\/world\/2011\/oct\/19\/tunisia-elections-revolution-future\">Tunisia Elections Are a Good Thing, but We Mustn&#8217;t Throw the Revolution Away<\/a>&#8216; (The Guardian)<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Bahrain-US arms deal challenges the fine line between economic freedom and human rights. &#8220;What the world needs is rigorous case by case evaluation of each proposed arms transfer so that if there is a substantial risk that the arms are likely to be used to commit or facilitate serious human rights violations, then the government must show the red stop light.&#8221;<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/english.aljazeera.net\/news\/middleeast\/2011\/10\/201110195135134310.html\">US Awaits Inquiry Ahead of Bahrain Arms Deal<\/a>\u00c2\u00a0(Al Jazeera)<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>A repercussion of Islamic extremism, the lack of Islamic slogans and symbols in the Syrian revolution comes as a source of relief to the international and local communities. And as the <a href=\"http:\/\/english.aljazeera.net\/news\/middleeast\/2011\/10\/201110168118442340.html\">Arab League calls for Syria talks in Cairo<\/a>, the regime&#8217;s media uses fear of Islamic extremism as a tool to gain support allowing it to remain in power.<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.guardian.co.uk\/commentisfree\/2011\/oct\/19\/syria-opposition-unified-peaceful\">Syria&#8217;s Opposition Is Unified and Peaceful\u00c2\u00a0<\/a>\u00c2\u00a0(The Guardian)<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>When Gilad Schalit sat down minutes after crossing into Israel for his first conversation with an IDF psychologist, he smiled and said to the doctor: \u00e2\u20ac\u0153I knew you would be surprised by my condition\u00e2\u20ac\u009d &#8230; Schalit\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s Captivity: No Sunlight but Given Radio, TV (Jerusalem Post) &#8230; but Nael Barghouti, released after 33 years of imprisonment [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":556,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-5495","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\/5495","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\/556"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.minaret.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=5495"}],"version-history":[{"count":7,"href":"https:\/\/blog.minaret.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5495\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5502,"href":"https:\/\/blog.minaret.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5495\/revisions\/5502"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.minaret.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=5495"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.minaret.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=5495"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.minaret.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=5495"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}