{"id":81055,"date":"2020-01-22T07:37:32","date_gmt":"2020-01-22T12:37:32","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.minaret.org\/?p=81055"},"modified":"2020-01-22T07:37:34","modified_gmt":"2020-01-22T12:37:34","slug":"news-and-analysis-1-22-20","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blog.minaret.org\/?p=81055","title":{"rendered":"News and Analysis (1\/22\/20)"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>The debt crises of 2007 created a conflict in Greece political system, and the rise of right-wing anti-immigrant government waging war on immigrants and the Exarchia autonomous movement:<\/p>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\"><li><u><font color=\"#000117\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.newyorker.com\/news\/dispatch\/the-attack-on-exarchia-an-anarchist-refuge-in-athens?source=EDT_NYR_EDIT_NEWSLETTER_0_imagenewsletter_Daily_ZZ&amp;utm_campaign=aud-dev&amp;utm_source=nl&amp;utm_brand=tny&amp;utm_mailing=TNY_Daily_012020&amp;utm_medium=email&amp;bxid=5c8e8d393f92a46e8972f5a2&amp;cndid=56708508&amp;esrc=&amp;mbid=&amp;utm_term=TNY_Daily\">The Attack on Exarchia, an Anarchist Refuge in Athens<\/a><\/font><\/u> (New Yorker)<\/li><\/ul>\n\n\n\n<p>A study unveils Saudi Arabia&#8217;s spy warfare surveillance on critics of the regime as part of the government&#8217;s effort to control the social media  narrative:<\/p>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\"><li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.middleeasteye.net\/opinion\/despite-twitter-culls-riyadhs-disinformation-network-still-going-strong\">Saudi Arabia&#8217;s Bot Army Flourishes as Twitter Fails to Tame the Beast <\/a>(Middle East Eye)<\/li><\/ul>\n\n\n\n<p>Refugees are the most thoroughly screened category of people entering the US and statistically pose no threat of terrorism, yet they are threatened at home country and in the US: <\/p>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\"><li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.newyorker.com\/magazine\/2020\/01\/27\/the-fight-to-save-an-innocent-refugee-from-almost-certain-death?source=EDT_NYR_EDIT_NEWSLETTER_0_imagenewsletter_Daily_ZZ&amp;utm_campaign=aud-dev&amp;utm_source=nl&amp;utm_brand=tny&amp;utm_mailing=TNY_Daily_012020&amp;utm_medium=email&amp;bxid=5c8e8d393f92a46e8972f5a2&amp;cndid=56708508&amp;esrc=&amp;mbid=&amp;utm_term=TNY_Daily\">The Fight to Save an Innocent Refugee from Almost Certain Death<\/a> (New Yorker)<\/li><\/ul>\n\n\n\n<p>Following the pattern of the Muslim ban, a student from Iran was denied entry because of an alleged family connection to a terrorist organization, but law enforcement did not cite any connection to the student himself:<\/p>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\"><li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.nbcnews.com\/news\/us-news\/northeastern-university-student-iran-denied-entry-u-s-n1119726\">Northeastern University S<g class=\"gr_ gr_9 gr-alert gr_gramm gr_inline_cards gr_disable_anim_appear Grammar multiReplace\" id=\"9\" data-gr-id=\"9\">tudent<\/g> from Iran Denied Entry to <g class=\"gr_ gr_8 gr-alert gr_gramm gr_inline_cards gr_disable_anim_appear Grammar only-ins replaceWithoutSep\" id=\"8\" data-gr-id=\"8\">U.S<\/g>.<\/a> (NBC)<\/li><\/ul>\n\n\n\n<p>ISIS&#8217;s pleasure with the assassination of Gen. Soleimani underscores Iran&#8217;s role in the fight against the terrorist group that has been buried by Israeli and Trump administration propaganda:<\/p>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\"><li><a href=\"https:\/\/21stcenturywire.com\/2020\/01\/11\/official-isis-newspaper-thanks-god-for-trump-killing-irans-general-soleimani\/\">Official ISIS Newspaper \u00e2\u20ac\u02dcThanks God\u00e2\u20ac\u2122 for Trump Killing Iran\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s General Soleimani<\/a> (21 Century Wire)<\/li><\/ul>\n\n\n\n<p>Israel calls his sermons &#8220;incitement&#8221; but the popular preacher says the Israeli government is &#8220;angered to see &#8230; the huge crowds&#8221; he draws:<\/p>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\"><li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.middleeasteye.net\/news\/israel-bar-former-grand-mufti-palestine-entry-al-aqsa-compound\">Israel Bars Former Grand Mufti of Palestine Entry to Al-Aqsa<\/a> (Middle East Eye) <\/li><\/ul>\n\n\n\n<p>The author of  &#8220;Paradigm Lost: From Two-State Solution to One-State Reality&#8221; says that &#8220;Israel has moved too far to the right for the government to implement a solution agreeable to Palestinians&#8221;:<\/p>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\"><li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.thedp.com\/article\/2020\/01\/israel-palestine-two-state-solution-ian-lustick\">Penn Prof. Explains Why He Lost Hope for Israel and Palestine to Reach Two-State Solution<\/a> (The Daily Pennsylvanian)<\/li><\/ul>\n\n\n\n<p>&#8220;Indonesia and other countries expressed clear frustration over Israel\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s  apparent dismissal of peace efforts in its conflict with Palestine, after&#8221; Israeli and American UNSC representatives try to change the subject:<\/p>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\"><li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.thejakartapost.com\/news\/2020\/01\/22\/indonesia-criticizes-israels-reluctance-to-open-up-about-palestine.html\">Indonesia Criticizes Israel\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s Reluctance to Open Up About Palestine<\/a> (The Jakarta Post)<\/li><\/ul>\n\n\n\n<p>Withdrawal from the nuclear agreement and sanctions on Iran are not fulfilling their stated objectives, as Iran restarts its nuclear program and expands its role as a regional power:<\/p>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\"><li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.haaretz.com\/middle-east-news\/iran\/.premium-trump-s-chaotic-cowardly-failure-to-protect-israel-against-iran-1.8413029\">Trump Is Failing to Protect Israel Against Iran <\/a>(Haaretz)<\/li><\/ul>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The debt crises of 2007 created a conflict in Greece political system, and the rise of right-wing anti-immigrant government waging war on immigrants and the Exarchia autonomous movement: The Attack on Exarchia, an Anarchist Refuge in Athens (New Yorker) A study unveils Saudi Arabia&#8217;s spy warfare surveillance on critics of the regime as part of [&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-81055","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\/81055","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=81055"}],"version-history":[{"count":23,"href":"https:\/\/blog.minaret.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/81055\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":81081,"href":"https:\/\/blog.minaret.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/81055\/revisions\/81081"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.minaret.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=81055"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.minaret.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=81055"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.minaret.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=81055"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}