{"id":72985,"date":"2019-12-20T07:41:40","date_gmt":"2019-12-20T12:41:40","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.minaret.org\/?p=72985"},"modified":"2019-12-20T07:41:40","modified_gmt":"2019-12-20T12:41:40","slug":"news-and-analysis-12-20-19","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blog.minaret.org\/?p=72985","title":{"rendered":"News and Analysis (12\/20\/19)"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>On December 20, the united Nations general Assembly called for &#8220;permanent sovereignty of Palestinian people in the Occupied Territory, including east Jerusalem.&#8221;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\"><li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.jpost.com\/Middle-East\/Palestinians-can-claim-restitution-for-occupation-160-UN-nations-say-611528\">Palestinians Can Claim Restitution for &#8216;Occupation,&#8217; 160 UN Nations Say<\/a> (The Jerusalem Post)<\/li><\/ul>\n\n\n\n<p>Jayapal Pramila is targeted for sponsoring a Congressional resolution &#8220;urging India to lift its communications and  internet restrictions in Indian-administered Kashmir and preserve religious freedom&#8221; &#8230;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\"><li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.aljazeera.com\/news\/2019\/12\/india-fm-cancels-meeting-kashmir-criticism-report-191220055122817.html\">India FM Cancels US Meeting over Kashmir Criticism: Report<\/a> (Al-Jazeera)<\/li><\/ul>\n\n\n\n<p>&#8230; as India&#8217;s &#8220;Internet blackout has made it nearly impossible for journalists to do their jobs&#8221; &#8230;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\"><li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.lowyinstitute.org\/the-interpreter\/no-news-kashmir\">No News from Kashmir<\/a>  (The Interpreter)<\/li><\/ul>\n\n\n\n<p>&#8230; and Pakistan calls on the U.N. independently investigate its claims of India&#8217;s border threats:<\/p>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\"><li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.voanews.com\/south-central-asia\/pakistan-warns-india-deploying-missiles-kashmir-launch-attack\">Pakistan Warns India Deploying Missiles in Kashmir to Launch Attack<\/a> (VoA)<\/li><\/ul>\n\n\n\n<p>&#8220;[E]ven as he sought a unified voice among Muslim-majority states &#8230; several countries &#8211; including <a href=\"https:\/\/www.aljazeera.com\/topics\/country\/saudi-arabia.html\">Saudi Arabia<\/a>  and Pakistan &#8211; were absent from the meeting&#8221;: <\/p>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\"><li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.aljazeera.com\/news\/2019\/12\/mohamad-mahathir-muslim-world-state-crisis-191219091837516.html\">Mahathir Mohamad: Muslim World &#8216;in a State of Crisis&#8217;<\/a> (Al-Jazeera)<\/li><\/ul>\n\n\n\n<p>Biden tried to distance himself fro the American failures in Afghanistan, but his &#8220;reaction to an accurate pronunciation by a person of color&#8221; just underlines the problem:<\/p>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\"><li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.huffpost.com\/entry\/joe-biden-afghanistan-journalist_n_5dfc3ac5e4b0843d35f931d8\">Joe Biden Challenged A Muslim Journalist for Pronouncing \u00e2\u20ac\u02dcAfghanistan\u00e2\u20ac\u2122 Correctly<\/a> (Huffington Post)<\/li><\/ul>\n\n\n\n<p>The assailant&#8217;s attorney concedes that the perpetrator was intoxicated at the time:<\/p>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\"><li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.sandiegouniontribune.com\/news\/courts\/story\/2019-12-19\/little-italy-hate-crime-case-heads-to-trial-in-battery-of-3-muslim-women\">Man Charged with Battery of 3 Muslim Women in Little Italy Heads to Tria<\/a>l (San Diego Union-Tribune)<\/li><\/ul>\n\n\n\n<p>&#8220;[A]n op-ed &#8230; in the official PA daily paper &#8230; [alleges] that IDF soldiers want Palestinian  children to hold needles rather than books or pens &#8230; because &#8216;drug needles kill the soul and lead the users to a stage of  helplessness'&#8221;:<\/p>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\"><li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.jpost.com\/Middle-East\/Abbas-Israel-gets-Palestinians-high-to-limit-us-611553\">Abbas: Israel Gets Palestinians High to Limit Us<\/a> (Jerusalem Post)<\/li><\/ul>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>On December 20, the united Nations general Assembly called for &#8220;permanent sovereignty of Palestinian people in the Occupied Territory, including east Jerusalem.&#8221; Palestinians Can Claim Restitution for &#8216;Occupation,&#8217; 160 UN Nations Say (The Jerusalem Post) Jayapal Pramila is targeted for sponsoring a Congressional resolution &#8220;urging India to lift its communications and internet restrictions in Indian-administered [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":122827,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-72985","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\/72985","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\/122827"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.minaret.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=72985"}],"version-history":[{"count":6,"href":"https:\/\/blog.minaret.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/72985\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":73434,"href":"https:\/\/blog.minaret.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/72985\/revisions\/73434"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.minaret.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=72985"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.minaret.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=72985"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.minaret.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=72985"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}