{"id":662,"date":"2008-05-16T17:20:21","date_gmt":"2008-05-16T22:20:21","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.minaret.org\/?p=662"},"modified":"2008-05-16T17:20:21","modified_gmt":"2008-05-16T22:20:21","slug":"news-and-analysis-51608","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blog.minaret.org\/?p=662","title":{"rendered":"News and Analysis (5\/16\/08)"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>As Palestinians commemorate the 60th anniversary of the Nakba through marches, flying black balloons and other events\u00e2\u20ac\u00a6<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.latimes.com\/news\/nationworld\/world\/la-fg-palestinians16-2008may16,0,196825.story\">Palestinians Mark Day of &#8216;Catastrophe&#8217;<\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>\u00e2\u20ac\u00a6Bin Laden seeks to exploit Palestinian suffering to benefit his criminal group\u00e2\u20ac\u00a6<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.washingtonpost.com\/wp-dyn\/content\/article\/2008\/05\/16\/AR2008051600793_pf.html\">Bin Laden: Palestinian Cause Fuels War<\/a> (Associated Press\/Washington Post)<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>\u00e2\u20ac\u00a6but US Muslims and Jews are not taking the bait, instead making interfaith outreach to each other:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.haaretz.com\/hasen\/spages\/984284.html\">New York Muslim Leader Forges Close Ties With City&#8217;s Jews<\/a> (Reuters\/Haaretz)<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Lebanese factions involved in recent fighting head to talks in Qatar to bring the country back from the brink of civil war:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/news.bbc.co.uk\/2\/hi\/middle_east\/7404034.stm\">Lebanon Leaders to Meet in Qatar<\/a> (BBC News)<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Military reporter Joe Galloway slams the Bush administration for \u00e2\u20ac\u0153turn[ing] a propaganda machine loose on the American people\u00e2\u20ac\u009d:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.editorandpublisher.com\/eandp\/columns\/shoptalk_display.jsp?vnu_content_id=1003804298\">Famed War Reporter Calls Pentagon\/Media &#8216;Propaganda&#8217; Program Illegal<\/a> (Editor and Publisher)<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Ahmedinejad continues to shoot himself in foot with more controversy over his mismanagement of Iran\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s economy and 9th sacking of a cabinet member since taking office in 2005:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/news.yahoo.com\/s\/afp\/20080515\/wl_mideast_afp\/iranpoliticseconomy\">Iran Sacks Another Minister As Critics Grow Louder<\/a> (AFP\/Yahoo)<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>The US military is forced to scale back much of its new ambitious military command in Africa after facing strong resistance from African countries viewing the program as \u00e2\u20ac\u0153a neocolonalist move to secure US oil interests\u00e2\u20ac\u009d:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.csmonitor.com\/2008\/0516\/p03s03-usmi.htm\">Pentagon Scales Back AFRICOM Ambitions<\/a> (Christian Science Monitor)<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>As Palestinians commemorate the 60th anniversary of the Nakba through marches, flying black balloons and other events\u00e2\u20ac\u00a6 Palestinians Mark Day of &#8216;Catastrophe&#8217; \u00e2\u20ac\u00a6Bin Laden seeks to exploit Palestinian suffering to benefit his criminal group\u00e2\u20ac\u00a6 Bin Laden: Palestinian Cause Fuels War (Associated Press\/Washington Post) \u00e2\u20ac\u00a6but US Muslims and Jews are not taking the bait, instead making [&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-662","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\/662","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=662"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/blog.minaret.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/662\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.minaret.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=662"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.minaret.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=662"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.minaret.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=662"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}