{"id":84070,"date":"2021-03-22T16:18:56","date_gmt":"2021-03-22T21:18:56","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blog.minaret.org\/?p=84070"},"modified":"2021-03-22T16:18:56","modified_gmt":"2021-03-22T21:18:56","slug":"news-and-analysis-3-22-2021","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blog.minaret.org\/?p=84070","title":{"rendered":"News and Analysis 3\/22\/2021"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>A year after receiving a hero&#8217;s welcome in Israel the traitor says he &#8220;had no choice&#8221; but to sell U.S. military secrets after America &#8220;stabbed Israel in the back&#8221;:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/news.yahoo.com\/pollard-defends-spying-us-israel-140913938.html\">Pollard Defends Spying on US for Israel in Rare Interview<\/a> (Yahoo News)<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>&#8220;Israel\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s Walla news website cited unnamed Israeli officials who said Maliki\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s ICC visit was the reason for the revocation of his &#8230; Israeli-granted pass that enables dozens of senior Palestinian officials to move freely through border crossings&#8221;:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.reuters.com\/article\/us-israel-palestinians-minister-icc\/israel-takes-palestinian-ministers-vip-pass-over-icc-meeting-palestinians-say-idUSKBN2BD0NL?il=0\">Israel Takes Palestinian Minister&#8217;s VIP Pass over ICC Meeting, Palestinians Say<\/a> (Reuters)<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Fighting D.C. officials&#8217; opposition to &#8220;the\u00c2\u00a0<a class=\"\" href=\"https:\/\/www.govinfo.gov\/content\/pkg\/FR-2020-10-13\/pdf\/2020-21677.pdf\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Army\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s plan<\/a> to add a buffer zone of about 250 feet to 500 feet (75 meters to 150 meters) from the shore of the Washington Channel,&#8221; two U.S intelligence officials say Iran is threatening to assassinate the Army\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s vice chief of staff as <a href=\"https:\/\/www.democracynow.org\/2020\/1\/3\/trita_parsi_us_assassination_of_iranian#:~:text=AMY%20GOODMAN%3A%20The%20United%20States%20has%20assassinated%20the,that%20killed%20Soleimani%20at%20the%20Baghdad%20International%20Airport.\">the U.S. assassinated their Qassem Soleimani<\/a>:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/apnews.com\/article\/iran-threatens-us-army-post-top-general-1285df40348182e1b74dc403607c5928\">AP Sources: Iran Threatens US Army Post and Top General<\/a> (Associated Press)<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>The United States, along with allies including &#8220;the European Union, Canada, and the United Kingdom&#8221;, announced sanctions against China due to &#8220;serious human rights violations&#8221;:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.cnn.com\/2021\/03\/22\/politics\/us-eu-china-uyghur-sanctions\/index.html\">US and Allies Announce Sanctions Against Chinese Officials for &#8216;Serious Human Rights Abuses&#8217; Against Uyghurs<\/a> (CNN)<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>The surprise visit comes amid increasing doubts that the U.S. will withdraw by the promised May 1 deadline:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.cbsnews.com\/news\/afghanistan-troop-withdrawal-deadline-lloyd-austin-defense-secretary-visit\/\">Defense Secretary Lloyd Austin Visits Afghanistan as Troop Withdrawal Deadline Looms<\/a> (CBS)<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>&#8220;France and other European countries, like Belgium, have taken similar steps against halal meat, while local authorities forced a halal supermarket in a Paris suburb to sell alcohol and pork products&#8221;:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.albawaba.com\/editors-choice\/muslims-slam-frances-decision-ban-halal-slaughter-1417638\">French Muslims Slam Decision to Ban Halal Chicken Slaughter<\/a> (Albwawaba)<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>China released a data that &#8220;showed it imported no Iranian crude&#8221;, while imports from Oman and Malaysia, &#8220;which Iranian supplies are often re-branded as&#8221; have surged:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.bloomberg.com\/news\/articles\/2021-03-22\/china-may-be-taking-rebranded-iran-oil-amid-increased-scrutiny\">China May Be Taking Rebranded Iran Oil Amid Increased Scrutiny<\/a> (Bloomberg)<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A year after receiving a hero&#8217;s welcome in Israel the traitor says he &#8220;had no choice&#8221; but to sell U.S. military secrets after America &#8220;stabbed Israel in the back&#8221;: Pollard Defends Spying on US for Israel in Rare Interview (Yahoo News) &#8220;Israel\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s Walla news website cited unnamed Israeli officials who said Maliki\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s ICC visit was [&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-84070","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\/84070","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=84070"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/blog.minaret.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/84070\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":84075,"href":"https:\/\/blog.minaret.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/84070\/revisions\/84075"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.minaret.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=84070"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.minaret.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=84070"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.minaret.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=84070"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}