{"id":83299,"date":"2020-10-16T12:21:58","date_gmt":"2020-10-16T17:21:58","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.minaret.org\/?p=83299"},"modified":"2020-10-16T12:23:29","modified_gmt":"2020-10-16T17:23:29","slug":"news-and-analysis-10-16-20","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blog.minaret.org\/?p=83299","title":{"rendered":"News and Analysis (10\/16\/20)"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Existing law forbidding anyone from knowingly contacting the agent of a foreign state or terrorist organization without explanation would be expanded to impose a 15-year sentence on contact with any &#8220;foreign political entity,&#8221; including human rights organizations:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/New Israeli Legislation to Criminalize Anti Occupation Human Rights Work Home \\ Palestinian Human Rights Organizations Council\">New Israeli Legislation to Criminalize Anti Occupation Human Rights Work<\/a> (Al-Haq)<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Feeling &#8220;discriminated against by the politicians and bureaucrats,&#8221; Buddhists initially welcomed Modi&#8217;s scrapping of the state&#8217;s status, but now even BJP members are &#8220;furious,&#8221; feeling &#8220;vulnerable to outsiders who will come and buy our land and take our jobs as well&#8221;:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.aljazeera.com\/news\/2020\/10\/14\/kashmirs-leh-region-demands-constitutional-safeguards\">Ladakh Buddhists Who Hailed India\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s Kashmir Move Not So Sure Now<\/a> (Aljazeera)<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Iran has already beaten the U.S. to having a female Vice President.\u00c2\u00a0 Will the Guardian Council allow it to have a female President first as well?<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.atlanticcouncil.org\/blogs\/iransource\/will-iran-let-a-woman-run-for-president-in-2021\/\">Will Iran Let a Woman Run for President in 2021?<\/a> (Atlantic Council)<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>&#8220;We\u00e2\u20ac\u2122re only giving the government more time to negotiate the withdrawal&#8221; \u00e2\u20ac\u0153The truce isn\u00e2\u20ac\u2122t open-ended,\u00e2\u20ac\u009d Ahmed al-Assadi, a lawmaker representing the political arm of pro-Iran armed coalition Hashd al-Shaabi:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.aljazeera.com\/news\/2020\/10\/14\/muslim-americans-poised-for-potential-2020-electoral-impact\">Pro-Iran factions\u00e2\u20ac\u2122 truce with US in Iraq \u00e2\u20ac\u02dcShort-term\u00e2\u20ac\u2122: Lawmaker<\/a> (Aljazeera)<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Do you think the dispute over Jerusalem is between the Palestinians and the Israelis? Now Erdogan has declared that <a href=\"https:\/\/www.haberler.com\/cumhurbaskani-erdogan-kudus-bizim-sehrimizdir-13639437-haberi\/\">Jerusalem is Turkish;<\/a> and the Saudis, too, want in on the action:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/mideastsoccer.blogspot.com\/2020\/10\/the-battle-for-jerusalem-turkeys.html\">The Battle for Jerusalem: Turkey\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s Erdogan Stakes His Claim<\/a> (Middle East Soccer)<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Even if Muslims were &#8220;only about one percent of the country\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s total population \u00e2\u20ac\u201c &#8230; their concentrations in key swing and battleground states, such as Michigan, Florida, Wisconsin and Pennsylvania, could make their vote especially impactful&#8221;:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.aljazeera.com\/news\/2020\/10\/14\/muslim-americans-poised-for-potential-2020-electoral-impact\">Muslim American Votes May Carry Outsize Weight in US Election<\/a> (Aljazeera)<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>It was reported that &#8220;an Arab medical worker who was sent to conduct a Covid-19 test was refused entry to Yitzhar [because] he was an Arab,&#8221; yet &#8220;many critics &#8230; continue to support institutionalised discrimination against Palestinians&#8221; &#8230;<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.middleeasteye.net\/opinion\/israel-settlers-racism-not-aberration-apartheid-system\">Israeli Settlers&#8217; Racism Is Not an Aberration. It&#8217;s Part of an Apartheid System<\/a> (Middle East Eye)<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>&#8230; and despite the postponement of official annexation of parts of the West Bank, &#8220;more than 12,000 illegal Israeli settlement homes were approved this year&#8221; &#8212; Ahmed al-Assadi, representing the political arm of pro-Iran armed coalition Hashd al-Shaabi:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.aljazeera.com\/news\/2020\/10\/15\/israels-settlement-approvals-hit-record-high-watchdog\">Israel\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s Settlement Approvals Hit Record High: Watchdog<\/a> (Aljazeera)<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>&#8220;Far from doling out fiscal help and other supportive measures, the government&#8230; wants to suck the life and blood of people&#8221; &#8212; Nati9onal Conference Party statement opposing the imposition of property taxes:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/scroll.in\/article\/975727\/why-a-potential-property-tax-in-jammu-and-kashmir-has-drawn-protests-from-local-parties\">Why a Potential Property Tax in Jammu and Kashmir Has Drawn Protests from Local Parties<\/a> (Scroll)<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>&#8220;Hizbullah, a lawyer at the Supreme Court of Sri Lanka, was arrested under the controversial Prevention of Terrorism Act (PTA), which allows the government to detain suspects without charge and or having to present them before a judge&#8221;:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.aljazeera.com\/news\/2020\/10\/15\/sri-lanka-muslim-lawyer\">Why Sri Lanka Jailed a Muslim Lawyer Without Charge for 6 Months<\/a> (Aljazeera)<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Existing law forbidding anyone from knowingly contacting the agent of a foreign state or terrorist organization without explanation would be expanded to impose a 15-year sentence on contact with any &#8220;foreign political entity,&#8221; including human rights organizations: New Israeli Legislation to Criminalize Anti Occupation Human Rights Work (Al-Haq) Feeling &#8220;discriminated against by the politicians and [&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-83299","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\/83299","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=83299"}],"version-history":[{"count":11,"href":"https:\/\/blog.minaret.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/83299\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":83311,"href":"https:\/\/blog.minaret.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/83299\/revisions\/83311"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.minaret.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=83299"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.minaret.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=83299"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.minaret.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=83299"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}