{"id":83053,"date":"2020-08-26T11:47:00","date_gmt":"2020-08-26T16:47:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.minaret.org\/?p=83053"},"modified":"2020-08-26T11:47:56","modified_gmt":"2020-08-26T16:47:56","slug":"news-and-analysis-8-26-20","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blog.minaret.org\/?p=83053","title":{"rendered":"News and Analysis (8\/26\/20)"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>An Afghani refugee sometimes mocked as &#8220;terrorist&#8221; told the white supremacist mass murderer, \u00e2\u20ac\u0153You took that name from me. Today, you are the terrorist&#8221; and &#8220;elicited spontaneous applause from other victims in the courtroom&#8221;:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/abcnews.go.com\/International\/wireStory\/zealand-mass-shooting-survivors-describe-ongoing-pain-72585484\">New Zealand Survivor to Mosque Gunman: &#8216;You Are the Loser&#8217;<\/a> (abc News)<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2020\/aug\/25\/israel-tells-uk-and-eu-to-drop-absurd-backing-for-iran-nuclear-deal-netanyahu\">Notwithstanding Israeli Pressure on its European members, <\/a>the UNSC is not buying Pompeo&#8217;s illogical claim that the U.S. has the right to trigger a clause in a treaty from which it has withdrawn &#8230;<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.aljazeera.com\/news\/2020\/08\/unsc-dismisses-demand-impose-snapback-sanctions-iran-200825163456943.html\">UNSC Dismisses US Demand to Impose &#8216;Snapback&#8217; Sanctions on Iran<\/a> (Aljazeera)<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>&#8230; while <a href=\"https:\/\/www.reuters.com\/article\/us-iran-nuclear-iaea\/iran-iaea-to-issue-statement-on-nuclear-cooperation-nournews-idUSKBN25M1J7\">Iran grants IAEA access to two contested sites<\/a> and the head of Iran&#8217;s Atomic Energy Organisation says that the IAEA &#8220;will carry out its independent and professional responsibilities and Iran will fulfil its legal commitments&#8221; under the JCPOA:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.aljazeera.com\/news\/2020\/08\/iran-hails-constructive-talks-visiting-iaea-chief-200825091456385.html\">Iran Hails &#8216;Constructive&#8217; Talks with Visiting IAEA Chief<\/a> (Aljazeera)<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>&#8220;Last week, under pressure from a group that polices the Canadian media on behalf of the \u00e2\u20ac\u02dcJewish state\u00e2\u20ac\u2122, CBC Radio host Duncan McCue issued an on-air apology for using the word &#8216;Palestine'&#8221;:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/mondoweiss.net\/2020\/08\/palestine-deleted\/\">Palestine Deleted<\/a> (Mondoweiss)<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Hamas &#8220;was to provide security along [the border] in return for Israel&#8217;s alleviation of the blockade. But Palestinian leaders in Gaza accused Israel of continuing to renege on implementing its side of the bargain&#8221;:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.aljazeera.com\/news\/2020\/08\/gaza-israel-war-fears-grow-palestinians-demand-blockade-200825093216429.html\">Hamas: Gaza Will Not &#8216;Remain Silent&#8217; as Israel escalates Siege<\/a> (Aljazeera)<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Mustafa Akyol finds\u00c2\u00a0 &#8220;huge&#8221; gap in the degree of personal freedom &#8220;between the freest Muslim majority countries (Bosna and Herzegovina and Albania) and the least free ones (Syria and Yemen)&#8221;:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.cato.org\/publications\/economic-development-bulletin\/freedom-muslim-world\">Freedom in the Muslim World<\/a> (Cato Institute)<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>The Jammu-Kashmir Coalition of Civil Society calls &#8220;India&#8217;s communications blackout following the scrapping of the disputed region&#8217;s semi-autonomy last year &#8216;collective punishment'&#8221;:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.aljazeera.com\/news\/2020\/08\/kashmir-group-calls-india-internet-ban-digital-apartheid-200825065643047.html\">Kashmir Group Calls India&#8217;s Internet Ban &#8216;Digital Apartheid<\/a>&#8216; (Aljazeera)<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>The &#8220;rift between Pakistan and Saudi Arabia&#8221; over Kashmir&#8221; poses serious challenges to Saudi Arabia\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s quest for geopolitical and religious leadership of the Muslim world&#8221;:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/mideastsoccer.blogspot.com\/2020\/08\/pakistan-saudi-spat-hitting-kingdom.html\"> Pakistan-Saudi Spat: Hitting the Kingdom Where It Hurts<\/a> (Mideast Soccer)<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>&#8220;Democrats invited Palestinian activist Linda Sarsour to speak during a &#8216;Muslim delegates and allies&#8217; assembly, but then kicked her away the first chance they got[, showing that] &#8230; the party wants our vote, but they aren\u00e2\u20ac\u2122t willing to work for it&#8221;:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/palestinedeepdive.us4.list-manage.com\/track\/click?u=2931c4b53e89e695a30817efb&amp;id=d3902c98df&amp;e=20260f5e6f\">Palestinians Should Not Have to Leave Our Dignity at the Door to Enter the Democrat\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s \u00e2\u20ac\u02dcBig Tent\u00e2\u20ac\u2122<\/a> (Mondoweiss)<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><span class=\"s1\">A \u00c2\u00a0senior research analyst at the National Iranian American Council says, &#8220;US pressure is in many ways cementing the system at the expense of the livelihoods of Iranians&#8221;:<\/span><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.aljazeera.com\/indepth\/opinion\/pressure-elite-infighting-check-iran-200825130927410.html\">US Pressure Keeps Elite Infighting in Iran in Check<\/a> (Aljazeera)<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>An Afghani refugee sometimes mocked as &#8220;terrorist&#8221; told the white supremacist mass murderer, \u00e2\u20ac\u0153You took that name from me. Today, you are the terrorist&#8221; and &#8220;elicited spontaneous applause from other victims in the courtroom&#8221;: New Zealand Survivor to Mosque Gunman: &#8216;You Are the Loser&#8217; (abc News) Notwithstanding Israeli Pressure on its European members, the UNSC [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-83053","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\/83053","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\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.minaret.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=83053"}],"version-history":[{"count":14,"href":"https:\/\/blog.minaret.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/83053\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":83067,"href":"https:\/\/blog.minaret.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/83053\/revisions\/83067"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.minaret.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=83053"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.minaret.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=83053"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.minaret.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=83053"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}