{"id":83043,"date":"2020-08-23T17:30:31","date_gmt":"2020-08-23T22:30:31","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.minaret.org\/?p=83043"},"modified":"2020-08-23T17:30:31","modified_gmt":"2020-08-23T22:30:31","slug":"news-and-analysis-8-23-20","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blog.minaret.org\/?p=83043","title":{"rendered":"News and Analysis (8\/23\/20)"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>&#8220;Palestinians &#8230; are forced to build without permit because getting one is almost impossible from a racist municipality that is ready to build thousands of housing units for Jews and not a single house for&#8221; them:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/english.wafa.ps\/Pages\/Details\/118951\">Despite Heavy Costs, Palestinians in Occupied East Jerusalem Decide Not to Self-demolish Their Homes<\/a> (Wafa)<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>&#8220;[T]he social-media giant\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s internal group for Muslim employees &#8230; said Facebook needed to make its policy-enforcement process for high-profile users more transparent and less susceptible to political influence&#8221;:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/economictimes.indiatimes.com\/tech\/internet\/muslim-staffers-at-facebook-call-for-transparency-in-enforcing-policies\/articleshow\/77686338.cms?utm_source=newsletter&amp;utm_medium=email&amp;utm_campaign=NewsDigest_A&amp;utm_content=Tech&amp;utm_term=1&amp;ncode=f19e96f67f24ecafd217388a0ce8038b\">Muslim Staffers at Facebook Call for Transparency in Enforcing Policies<\/a> (Economic Times)<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>The stealth by which Article 370 was abrogated exposes the lie that the intention\u00c2\u00a0 was to promote democratic constitutionalism and federalism:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.epw.in\/journal\/2020\/34\/editorials\/kashmir-after-article-370.html\">Kashmir After Article 370<\/a> (Economic and Political Weekly)<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>The UAE and Israel have incompatible interpretations as to what they agreed to regarding annexation of &#8220;portions of occupied Palestinian land on which unlawful Israeli settlements are currently situated&#8221; &#8230;<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/justworldeducational.org\/2020\/08\/interpreting-the-uae-israel-agreement-on-suspending-annexation\/\">Interpreting the UAE\/Israel Agreement on Suspending Annexation<\/a> (<em><a href=\"https:\/\/richardfalk.wordpress.com\/2020\/08\/16\/interpreting-the-uae-israel-agreement-on-suspending-annexation\/\">Global Justice in the 21st Century<\/a> \/<\/em>Just World Educational)<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>&#8230; a reflection that &#8220;the true reason for the deal had nothing to do with Palestinians and everything to do with Iran&#8221;:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2020\/aug\/14\/its-a-game-and-we-lost-palestinians-decry-gulf-moves-towards-israel\">&#8216;It&#8217;s a Game and We Lost&#8217;: Palestinians Decry Gulf Moves Towards Israel<\/a> (The Guardian)<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>&#8220;[D]espite its towering influence and centrality to the rise of our modern world, the Ottoman Empire\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s history has for centuries been distorted, misrepresented, and even suppressed in the West&#8221;:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/history.yale.edu\/publications\/gods-shadow-sultan-selim-his-ottoman-empire-and-making-modern-world\">God&#8217;s Shadow: Sultan Selim, His Ottoman Empire, and the Making of the Modern World<\/a> (Yale)<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Illegal Bitcoin mining can&#8217;t be the only misallocation caused by Iran&#8217;s subsidization of power consumption:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/news.bitcoin.com\/iran-shuts-down-1100-illegal-bitcoin-miners-whistleblowers-rewarded-2400\/\">Iran Shuts Down 1,100 Illegal Bitcoin Miners; 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