{"id":664,"date":"2008-05-19T09:41:35","date_gmt":"2008-05-19T14:41:35","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.minaret.org\/?p=664"},"modified":"2008-05-19T09:41:35","modified_gmt":"2008-05-19T14:41:35","slug":"news-and-analysis-51908","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blog.minaret.org\/?p=664","title":{"rendered":"News and Analysis (5\/19\/08)"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"MsoNormal\"><span style=\"font-family: Arial\">In statements pregnant with hypocrisy, both Bush and Bin Laden slam Arab governments for their authoritarian policies and Israel\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s violent repression Muslim Palestinians repectively \u00e2\u20ac\u00a6<\/span><\/p>\n<ul type=\"disc\" style=\"margin-top: 0in\">\n<li class=\"MsoNormal\"><span style=\"font-family: Arial\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2008\/05\/19\/world\/middleeast\/19prexy.html\">Bush\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s      Speech Prods Middle East Leaders<\/a> (New York Times)<\/span><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\"><span style=\"font-family: Arial\">\u00e2\u20ac\u00a6meanwhile Americans of various political orientations continue to fight Bush\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s erosion of domestic civil liberties\u00e2\u20ac\u00a6<\/span><\/p>\n<ul type=\"disc\" style=\"margin-top: 0in\">\n<li class=\"MsoNormal\"><span style=\"font-family: Arial\"><a href=\"http:\/\/mediamatters.org\/items\/200805160008\">NBC&#8217;s Lauer Falsely      Suggested Only &#8220;The Far Left&#8221; Is Concerned About Bush&#8217;s Alleged      Civil Liberties Violations<\/a> (Media Matters) <\/span><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\"><span style=\"font-family: Arial\">\u00e2\u20ac\u00a6and Al-Qaeda  and its affliates continue perpetrating its bloody crimes against Muslims in the name its ideology:<\/span><\/p>\n<ul type=\"disc\" style=\"margin-top: 0in\">\n<li class=\"MsoNormal\"><span style=\"font-family: Arial\"><a href=\"http:\/\/news.bbc.co.uk\/2\/hi\/middle_east\/7401634.stm\">Bombing at Iraq      Funeral Kills 20<\/a> (BBC News)<\/span><\/li>\n<li class=\"MsoNormal\"><span style=\"font-family: Arial\"><a href=\"http:\/\/wiredispatch.com\/news\/?id=174824\">Suicide      Blasts Kill 6, Injure 8 in S. Afghanistan<\/a> (Associated      Press\/Wiredispatch)<\/span><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\"><span style=\"font-family: Arial\">Palestinian-Americans commemorate the Nakba on the Washington DC Mall, and in 20 other cities nationwide, through a quilt representing each of the 400 villages destroyed in 1948:<\/span><\/p>\n<ul type=\"disc\" style=\"margin-top: 0in\">\n<li class=\"MsoNormal\"><span style=\"font-family: Arial\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.washingtonpost.com\/wp-dyn\/content\/article\/2008\/05\/17\/AR2008051702471.html?hpid=sec-religion\">Palestinian      Quilt Presents a Different Viewpoint<\/a> (Washington Post) <\/span><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\"><span style=\"font-family: Arial\">Indonesian VP Kalla asserts that Indonesia\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s market-oriented growth is stymied by an elite few with strong political ties to the state\u00e2\u20ac\u00a6<\/span><\/p>\n<ul type=\"disc\" style=\"margin-top: 0in\">\n<li class=\"MsoNormal\"><span style=\"font-family: Arial\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.thejakartapost.com\/news\/2008\/05\/19\/ri-business-progress-remains-dependent-govt-support-vp.html\">RI      Business Progress Remains Dependent on Govt Support: VP<\/a> (The Jakarta      Post)<\/span><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\"><span style=\"font-family: Arial\">\u00e2\u20ac\u00a6whereas pushes for necessary privatization of Kuwait\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s economy are in question with the newly elected parliament favoring a \u00e2\u20ac\u0153cradle-to-grave welfare system\u00e2\u20ac\u009d:<\/span><\/p>\n<ul type=\"disc\" style=\"margin-top: 0in\">\n<li class=\"MsoNormal\"><span style=\"font-family: Arial\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.csmonitor.com\/2008\/0519\/p25s01-wome.html\">Hard-Liners&#8217;      Win in Kuwait Puts Reformers&#8217; Goals in Doubt<\/a> (Christian Science      Monitor)<\/span><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\"><span style=\"font-family: Arial\">Islamabad\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s internal fault lines not only hamper a deal on the judges, but resolving issues with New Delhi on Kashmir and the proposed Iran-Pakistan-India oil pipeline:<\/span><\/p>\n<ul type=\"disc\" style=\"margin-top: 0in\">\n<li class=\"MsoNormal\"><span class=\"newsstorytitle\"><span style=\"font-family: Arial\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.bloomberg.com\/apps\/news?pid=20601080&#038;sid=aZ.bkgLk6yMM\">India,      Pakistan Talks May Be Hampered by Divisions in Islamabad<\/a> (Bloomberg)<\/span><\/span><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In statements pregnant with hypocrisy, both Bush and Bin Laden slam Arab governments for their authoritarian policies and Israel\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s violent repression Muslim Palestinians repectively \u00e2\u20ac\u00a6 Bush\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s Speech Prods Middle East Leaders (New York Times) \u00e2\u20ac\u00a6meanwhile Americans of various political orientations continue to fight Bush\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s erosion of domestic civil liberties\u00e2\u20ac\u00a6 NBC&#8217;s Lauer Falsely Suggested Only &#8220;The [&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-664","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\/664","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=664"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/blog.minaret.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/664\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.minaret.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=664"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.minaret.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=664"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.minaret.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=664"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}