{"id":835,"date":"2008-11-12T12:00:44","date_gmt":"2008-11-12T17:00:44","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.minaret.org\/?p=835"},"modified":"2008-11-12T12:00:44","modified_gmt":"2008-11-12T17:00:44","slug":"news-and-analysis-111208","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blog.minaret.org\/?p=835","title":{"rendered":"News and Analysis (11\/12\/08)"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Supplies for 750,000 needy Palestinians can last only 48 hours:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/english.aljazeera.net\/news\/middleeast\/2008\/11\/200811128534353370.html\">UN Says Gaza Running Out of Food<\/a> (Al Jazeera)<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Sunni and Shi&#8217;ite neighborhoods reunited by Iraqi government&#8217;s decision to reopen bridge:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.washingtonpost.com\/wp-dyn\/content\/article\/2008\/11\/11\/AR2008111101614.html\">Long-Closed Baghdad Bridge Reopens<\/a> (Washington Post)<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Having expelled Al-Qaeda a year ago, Dulaim illustrates the difficulty in maintaining sovereignty:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.csmonitor.com\/2008\/1112\/p01s02-wome.html\">Iraqi Town Defies Al Qaeda<\/a> (Christian Science Monitor)<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>King Abdullah agreed for the first time to dine in the same room as the Israeli president in promoting his call for interfaith dialogue:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.washingtonpost.com\/wp-dyn\/content\/article\/2008\/11\/11\/AR2008111103029.html\">Saudi Arabia to Lead U.N. Faith Forum<\/a> (Washington Post)<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>A fanatical proponent of a &#8220;unified Jerusalem,&#8221; the new mayor supports building Jewish settlements in violation of international law:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/english.aljazeera.net\/news\/middleeast\/2008\/11\/2008111234840736404.html\">Secularist Wins Jerusalem Poll<\/a> (Al Jazeera)<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Hizbullah leader warns against optimism after the election of Obama and reinstates his desire for <span class=\"snap_noshots\">&#8220;free and fair elections &#8216;without obstruction or postponement&#8217; in Lebanon&#8221;:<\/span><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.dailystar.com.lb\/article.asp?edition_id=1&#038;categ_id=2&#038;article_id=97629\">Nasrallah Urges Timely Elections, Wider Dialogue<\/a> (Daily Star)<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Emphasizing their strength, Pakistani hijackers did not fire a single bullet:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.csmonitor.com\/2008\/1112\/p25s05-wosc.html\">Taliban Hijacking Threatens Key NATO Supply Route<\/a> (Christian Science Monitor)<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Supplies for 750,000 needy Palestinians can last only 48 hours: UN Says Gaza Running Out of Food (Al Jazeera) Sunni and Shi&#8217;ite neighborhoods reunited by Iraqi government&#8217;s decision to reopen bridge: Long-Closed Baghdad Bridge Reopens (Washington Post) Having expelled Al-Qaeda a year ago, Dulaim illustrates the difficulty in maintaining sovereignty: Iraqi Town Defies Al Qaeda [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":14,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-835","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\/835","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\/14"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.minaret.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=835"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/blog.minaret.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/835\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.minaret.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=835"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.minaret.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=835"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.minaret.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=835"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}