{"id":81409,"date":"2020-02-26T15:10:56","date_gmt":"2020-02-26T20:10:56","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.minaret.org\/?p=81409"},"modified":"2020-02-26T15:10:59","modified_gmt":"2020-02-26T20:10:59","slug":"news-and-analysis-2-26-20","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blog.minaret.org\/?p=81409","title":{"rendered":"News And Analysis (2\/26\/20)"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>In his visit to India, Trump defended Modi and made no mention of the Hindu-Muslim violence around them or of the  discriminatory citizenship law that sparked it:<\/p>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\"><li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.vox.com\/future-perfect\/2020\/2\/25\/21152829\/trump-india-modi-muslim-hindu-violence\">Trump Praises India\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s Religious Freedom While Muslim-Hindu Violence Erupts<\/a> (Vox.com)<\/li><li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.npr.org\/2020\/02\/26\/809559802\/as-president-trump-left-indias-capital-hindu-muslim-riots-flared\">As President Trump Left India&#8217;s Capital, Hindu-Muslim Riots Flared<\/a> (NPR)<\/li><\/ul>\n\n\n\n<p>In a statement approved by all fifteen council members including the US, the UN announced their support to negotiate a two-state Israel-Palestine solution: <\/p>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\"><li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/aponline\/2020\/02\/24\/world\/middleeast\/ap-un-united-nations-israel-palestinians.html\">UN Reiterates Support for 2-State Israel-Palestine Solution<\/a> (NY Times)<\/li><\/ul>\n\n\n\n<p>&#8220;Nobody on the debate stage except Bernie has the guts to say the truth about the legacy of U.S. foreign policy&#8221;: <\/p>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\"><li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.commondreams.org\/news\/2020\/02\/26\/chile-guatemala-iran-sanders-applauded-highlighting-us-record-overthrowing\">&#8216;In Chile, in Guatemala, in Iran&#8217;: Sanders Applauded for Highlighting US Record of Overthrowing Governments Around the World<\/a> (Common Dreams)<\/li><\/ul>\n\n\n\n<p>&#8220;The Israeli-Palestinian conflict is not the product of ancient ethnic hatreds. &#8230; It is a manufactured conflict, the outcome of a 100-year-old colonial occupation&#8221;:<\/p>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\"><li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.truthdig.com\/articles\/the-zionist-colonization-of-palestine\/\">The  Zionist Colonization of Palestine<\/a> (Truthdigg)<\/li><\/ul>\n\n\n\n<p>B\u00e2\u20ac\u2122Tselem reports that &#8220;more than 200 people have been killed, some 8,000 wounded by live fire, about 2,400 wounded by rubber-coated metal bullets, and almost  3,000 wounded by tear gas canisters&#8221; in the past two years:<\/p>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\"><li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.middleeastmonitor.com\/20200226-21-palestinians-in-gaza-lose-one-or-both-eyes-from-israel-forces-fire-during-protests\/\">21 Palestinians in Gaza Lose One or Both Eyes from Israel Forces\u00e2\u20ac\u2122 Fire During Protests<\/a> (Middle East Monitor)<\/li><\/ul>\n\n\n\n<p>The Muslim Council of Britain called O&#8217;Leary&#8217;s comment, suggesting that Muslim men should undergo extra security checks, &#8220;racist and discriminatory&#8221;:<\/p>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\"><li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.foxnews.com\/travel\/ryanair-ceo-comments-muslim-men\">Ryanair CEO Under Fire for Comments About Muslim Men; Airline Blames &#8216;Inaccurate Headlines&#8217;<\/a> (Fox News)<\/li><\/ul>\n\n\n\n<p>&#8220;We all want to save the JCPOA (Joint Comprehensive Plan of Action, as  the deal is known) so that the inspectors can continue their work in  Iran\u00e2\u20ac\u009d &#8212; a diplomat for one pf the six world powers meeting with Iranian officials:<\/p>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\"><li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.arabnews.com\/node\/1633426\/middle-east\">Iran Nuclear Deal Commission Meets to Try to Save 2015 Accord<\/a> (Arab News)<\/li><\/ul>\n\n\n\n<p>Can Oman survive its much needed facilitator and messenger role between US, Iran, and Gulf states, after the death of Qaboos?<\/p>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\"><li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.al-monitor.com\/pulse\/originals\/2020\/02\/iran-oman-ties-new-sultan-qaboos.html\">Will Ties with Iran Change Under Oman\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s New Sultan?<\/a> (Al-Monitor)<\/li><\/ul>\n\n\n\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.al-monitor.com\/pulse\/originals\/2020\/02\/iran-oman-ties-new-sultan-qaboos.html\"><br><\/a><br><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In his visit to India, Trump defended Modi and made no mention of the Hindu-Muslim violence around them or of the discriminatory citizenship law that sparked it: Trump Praises India\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s Religious Freedom While Muslim-Hindu Violence Erupts (Vox.com) As President Trump Left India&#8217;s Capital, Hindu-Muslim Riots Flared (NPR) In a statement approved by all fifteen council [&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-81409","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\/81409","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=81409"}],"version-history":[{"count":24,"href":"https:\/\/blog.minaret.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/81409\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":81436,"href":"https:\/\/blog.minaret.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/81409\/revisions\/81436"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.minaret.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=81409"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.minaret.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=81409"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.minaret.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=81409"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}