{"id":83989,"date":"2021-03-12T14:07:07","date_gmt":"2021-03-12T19:07:07","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.minaret.org\/?p=83989"},"modified":"2021-03-12T14:07:07","modified_gmt":"2021-03-12T19:07:07","slug":"news-and-analysis-3-12-21","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blog.minaret.org\/?p=83989","title":{"rendered":"News and Analysis (3\/12\/21)"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Five Palestinian children were detained for hours for picking wild vegetables near an illegal settlement in what the Israeli human rights organization B&#8217;Tselem calls &#8220;another example of the absolute disregard on the part of Israeli authorities and forces on the ground to the wellbeing and rights of Palestinians, no matter how young or vulnerable&#8221;:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.aljazeera.com\/news\/2021\/3\/11\/video-shows-israeli-troops-detaining-palestinian-children\">Video Shows Israeli Troops Detaining Palestinian Children<\/a> (Aljazeera)<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>David Abrams, a lawyer and executive director at the Zionist Advocacy Group, is known for weaponizing the Public Records Law in order to target pro-Palestine activists by releasing their names to Canary Mission, which is\u00c2\u00a0 &#8220;a website that blacklists Palestinian rights activists by creating dossiers on them and labelling them anti-Semites&#8221;:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/theintercept.com\/2021\/03\/06\/palestine-israel-students-ucla-public-records\/?fbclid=IwAR1PtpSajQy6IvxznKFpH4Vt6pfcbZvW5yXtADvC1OT3WhpddRDizxUtjdI\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">A Pro-Israel Lawyer is Weaponizing Public Records Law Against Palestinian Activists<\/a>\u00c2\u00a0 (The Intercept)<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>While Israel and the U.S. strain to focus to distract international intention with an alleged Iranian nuclear threat, Israel has been building what appears to be a new reactor to produce Tritium, allegedly for the purpose of enhancing their arsenal of &#8220;80 nuclear warheads&#8221;:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.middleeasteye.net\/opinion\/israel-nuclear-site-dimona-what-building\">What Is Israel Building at Its Dimona Nuclear Site? <\/a>\u00c2\u00a0 (Middle East Eye)<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Biden authorized an airstrike that killed seventeen people in northern Iraq. &#8220;Analysts suggest that the strike was intended to strengthen U.S position in negotiations with Iran&#8221;:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.businessinsider.com\/biden-airstrikes-in-middle-east-far-cry-from-diplomacy-promised-2021-3\">Biden&#8217;s Airstrikes in the Middle East Are a Far Cry from the Diplomacy He Promised<\/a> (Business Insider)<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>The persecutions of Muslims by China&#8217;s Communist government obscures the fact that in the past Chinese emperors favored the minority community &#8220;because of its ethics, which\u00e2\u20ac\u201das far as the emperors were concerned\u00e2\u20ac\u201dpromoted harmonious and peaceful relations between the diverse peoples in the imperial territories&#8221;:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/qz.com\/1982825\/when-did-islam-come-to-china\/\">The City of Suzhou Highlights Islam\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s Long History in China<\/a> (Quartz)<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>The Interior Ministry\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s accused Imam Ali\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s Popular Student Relief Society (IAPSRS) of &#8220;questioning Islamic rulings such as <em>qisas<\/em> [retribution in kind and] promoting falsehood by publishing statements against the Islamic Republic of Iran&#8221;:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.hrw.org\/news\/2021\/03\/10\/iran-overturn-shutdown-charity\">Iran: Overturn Shutdown of Charity<\/a> (Human Rights Watch)<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>One of Iran&#8217;s top nuclear scientists argues that &#8220;the one who has left the JCPOA has to come back first&#8221; &#8230;<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.pbs.org\/newshour\/show\/irans-top-nuclear-scientist-discusses-the-potential-for-a-nuclear-deal-with-the-u-s\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Iran\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s Top Nuclear Scientist Discusses the Potential for a Nuclear Deal with the U.S<\/a>\u00c2\u00a0(PBS)<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>&#8230; but the U.S. refuses to return to compliance:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.arabnews.com\/node\/1824291\/middle-east\">US: No Unilateral Gestures to Iran<\/a> (Arab News)<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/foreignpolicy.com\/2021\/03\/10\/president-biden-must-follow-the-advice-of-candidate-biden-on-iran\/\">President Biden Must Follow the Advice of Candidate Biden on Iran<\/a> (Foreign Policy)<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Drones laden with high explosives that Israel claims were in use in an operation &#8220;against resistance naval forces&#8221; killed Gaza fishermen:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.middleeastmonitor.com\/20210311-booby-trapped-israel-drones-responsible-for-death-of-3-gaza-fishermen-probe-finds\/?fbclid=IwAR3z80KqoC6s3GG62Svr6ViKVaKl4UEhjdqPpIjnKFS1MHHXEVyFHWPn4pU\">Booby-trapped Israel Drones Responsible for Death of 3 Gaza Fishermen, Probe Finds<\/a> (Middle East Monitor)<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Five Palestinian children were detained for hours for picking wild vegetables near an illegal settlement in what the Israeli human rights organization B&#8217;Tselem calls &#8220;another example of the absolute disregard on the part of Israeli authorities and forces on the ground to the wellbeing and rights of Palestinians, no matter how young or vulnerable&#8221;: Video [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":158132,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-83989","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\/83989","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\/158132"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.minaret.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=83989"}],"version-history":[{"count":12,"href":"https:\/\/blog.minaret.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/83989\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":84011,"href":"https:\/\/blog.minaret.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/83989\/revisions\/84011"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.minaret.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=83989"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.minaret.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=83989"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.minaret.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=83989"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}