{"id":83152,"date":"2020-09-15T16:00:30","date_gmt":"2020-09-15T21:00:30","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.minaret.org\/?p=83152"},"modified":"2020-09-15T16:00:30","modified_gmt":"2020-09-15T21:00:30","slug":"news-and-analysis-9-15-20","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blog.minaret.org\/?p=83152","title":{"rendered":"News and Analysis (9\/15\/20)"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Cleared of all charges by the courts, he was sucked into a nightmare &#8220;beyond the reach of the U.S. judiciary. Within the realm of <em class=\"small\">ICE<\/em>, there would be no public documents, no legal hearings;&#8221; yet he held onto his faith that \u00e2\u20ac\u0153[a]n innocent, independent, wise individual will prevail in any situation\u00e2\u20ac\u009d:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.newyorker.com\/magazine\/2020\/09\/21\/the-man-who-refused-to-spy?utm_source=nl&amp;utm_brand=tny&amp;utm_mailing=TNY_Magazine_Daily_091420&amp;utm_campaign=aud-dev&amp;utm_medium=email&amp;bxid=5c8e8d393f92a46e8972f5a2&amp;cndid=56708508&amp;hasha=d547135204a82397fe263f0a38f5a34c&amp;hashb=3b5a9cc33a53190aa0e1064f0d921521616f0120&amp;hashc=71930a734dc66e3839a5104cccfbda5c80e56435f10652abd66cbe7f3d71e67f&amp;esrc=&amp;utm_term=TNY_Daily\">The Man Who Refused to Spy<\/a> (New Yorker)<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>The so-called &#8220;peace&#8221; agreement actually smooths facilitates Trump administration sales of &#8220;sophisticated weaponry to the Persian Gulf states&#8221; that could as easily be used against Israel as against Iran &#8230;<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonpost.com\/world\/middle_east\/israel-uae-jets-peace\/2020\/09\/14\/ae0950a6-f682-11ea-85f7-5941188a98cd_story.html\">Peace Deal or Arms Race? Proposed Sale of F-35 Jets to UAE Prompts Fears in Israel<\/a> (Washington Post)<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>&#8230; yet even as he arms Arab states, &#8220;Pompeo vowed Tuesday that Washington would prevent Iran from purchasing &#8216;Chinese tanks and Russian air defence systems&#8217; as the end of the UN arms embargo against Tehran approaches&#8221;:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.aljazeera.com\/news\/2020\/09\/iran-warns-strategic-mistake-trump-threat-200915093846986.html\">Iran Warns US Against &#8216;Strategic Mistake&#8217; After Trump&#8217;s Threat<\/a> (Aljazeera)<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Joe Biden has a &#8220;track record of viewing authoritarian leaders in Egypt, Saudi Arabia and elsewhere as moderate Arab allies&#8217; who guarantee &#8216;stability&#8217; in the region&#8221;:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.wrmea.org\/waging-peace\/would-a-president-biden-embrace-democracy-in-the-middle-east.html\">Would a President Biden Embrace Democracy in the Middle East?<\/a> (WRMEA)<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Some pundits excused Trump&#8217;s withdrawal form JCPOA on the grounds that it wasn&#8217;t a treaty, but the 1955 Treaty of Amity is a treaty confirmed by the Senate and Trump has withdrawn from that as well, illogically claiming that JCPOA supersedes it:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.jurist.org\/news\/2020\/09\/us-asks-icj-to-dismiss-iran-sanctions-case\/\">US Asks ICJ to Dismiss Iran Sanctions Case<\/a> (Jurist)<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p class=\"css-158dogj evys1bk0\">&#8220;The museum was meant to showcase the arms, art and fashion of the Mughals&#8221; but Hindu nationalist officials &#8220;hostile to recognizing the country\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s Muslim history&#8221; plan &#8220;a complete overhaul of the museum &#8230; [to] instead celebrate India\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s Hindu majority, leaders and history&#8221;:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2020\/09\/15\/world\/asia\/india-museum-muslims-hindus.html\">Museum in India Celebrating Muslim Dynasty Gets a Hindu Overhaul<\/a> (NY Times)<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Celebrating the power of non-violent Palestinian resistance, Bacha chronicles the ways that grassroots engagement has produced creative movements of social solidarity and enduring personal self-transformations:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/palestinedeepdive.us4.list-manage.com\/track\/click?u=2931c4b53e89e695a30817efb&amp;id=73afefd735&amp;e=20260f5e6f\">Remembrance of Struggles Past: Two Films by Julia Bacha<\/a> (Mondoweiss)<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>The settler murdered &#8220;a Palestinian toddler and his parents in an arson attack&#8221; that burned a four-year-old boy as well, but he could be released in as little as fifteen years:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.aljazeera.com\/news\/2020\/09\/israeli-handed-3-life-sentences-killing-palestinian-family-200914124025478.html\">Israeli Handed 3 Life Sentences for Killing Palestinian Family<\/a> (Aljazeera)<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Pro-Israeli PACs have poured over $1.5 million into the coffers of 2020 Congressional candidates. A lot o money, yes, but a tiny fraction of the U.S. taxpayers&#8217; money it buys for Israel, so, all-in-all, a lucrative investment:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/static.wrmea.org\/pdf\/2020octoberpaccharts_20-25.pdf\">Pro-Israel PACs Pour Money into Elections<\/a> (WRMEA)<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Cleared of all charges by the courts, he was sucked into a nightmare &#8220;beyond the reach of the U.S. judiciary. Within the realm of ICE, there would be no public documents, no legal hearings;&#8221; yet he held onto his faith that \u00e2\u20ac\u0153[a]n innocent, independent, wise individual will prevail in any situation\u00e2\u20ac\u009d: The Man Who Refused [&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-83152","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\/83152","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=83152"}],"version-history":[{"count":11,"href":"https:\/\/blog.minaret.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/83152\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":83165,"href":"https:\/\/blog.minaret.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/83152\/revisions\/83165"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.minaret.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=83152"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.minaret.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=83152"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.minaret.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=83152"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}