{"id":84120,"date":"2021-04-02T16:47:29","date_gmt":"2021-04-02T21:47:29","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blog.minaret.org\/?p=84120"},"modified":"2021-04-02T16:47:29","modified_gmt":"2021-04-02T21:47:29","slug":"news-and-analysis-4-2-21","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blog.minaret.org\/?p=84120","title":{"rendered":"News and Analysis 4\/2\/21"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>U.S. and its allies started the &#8220;illegal, undeclared, and criminal&#8221; war against the Yemen. Now, Secretary of State Anthony Blinken calls on \u00e2\u20ac\u0153&#8217;all parties&#8217; to allow unhindered import and distribution of food and fuel&#8221; even as U.S. naval blockade prevents &#8220;food and fuel from reaching those 20 million Yemenis&#8221;:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/towardfreedom.org\/story\/admin\/yemens-blood-is-on-us-hands-and-still-the-us-lies-about-the-war\/\">Yemen\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s Blood Is on US Hands<\/a> (Toward Freedom)<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>The textbook publisher has paused distribution of books that UK Lawyers for Israel pressured it to adulterate. Among the many facts deleted &#8220;that during the first intifada of 1987-93 the arms and fingers of Palestinian child stone throwers were broken by Israeli soldiers&#8221; &#8230;<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.middleeasteye.net\/news\/uk-school-textbooks-middle-east-conflict-altered-favour-israel-report\">UK School Textbooks on Middle East Conflict Altered to Favour Israel: Report<\/a> (Middle East Eye)<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>.. while in the U.S., Butler University students say Zionists pressured the SGA to block civil rights icon Angela Davis from campus &#8220;because of her support &#8230; for nonviolent economic pressure against Israel\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s illegal military occupation of Palestine&#8221;:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/mondoweiss.net\/2021\/03\/after-pressure-from-pro-israel-students-butler-abruptly-canceled-an-event-featuring-angela-davis\/?fbclid=IwAR3EM2qZkEitAmPGlyNJqAmhYkoa6gPUKiLFhB3FOKdVV14XBUeE-aphvgA\">After Pressure From Pro-Israel students, Butler Abruptly Canceled an Event Featuring Angela Davis<\/a> (Mondoweiss)<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>The Biden Administration will grant a meagre $15 million in humanitarian aid for Palestinians in the West Bank and Gaza, less that 5% of the aid given before Trump stopped it 2018 and about 1\/2% of the annual military aid given to Israel to perpetuate the occupation:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.middleeastmonitor.com\/20210330-us-aid-is-tied-to-palestinian-acquiescence-to-the-two-state-illusion\/\"> US Aid Is Tied to Palestinian Acquiescence to the Two-State Illusion<\/a> (Middle East Monitor)<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>The entry of the popular armed resistance leader currently serving five life sentences in an Israeli prison has the potential to &#8220;severely weaken President Mahmoud Abbas\u00e2\u20ac\u2122 Fatah party and help its militant Hamas rivals&#8221;:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.haaretz.com\/middle-east-news\/palestinians\/.premium-palestinian-elections-marwan-barghouti-announces-run-against-abbas-1.9672551\">Palestinian Elections: Marwan Barghouti Announces Run Against Abbas\u00c2\u00a0 <\/a>(Haaretz)<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Iran&#8217;s FM confirmed on TV that &#8220;participants had agreed to meet in person in Vienna on Tuesday after &#8216;frank and serious&#8217; talks&#8221;:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.cnbc.com\/2021\/04\/02\/iran-world-powers-to-hold-nuclear-talks-in-vienna-on-tuesday.html\">Iran, World Powers to Hold Nuclear Talks in Vienna on Tuesday<\/a> (CNBC)<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>&#8220;It was unclear what prompted the two militaries to adhere to the accord they had largely ignored for years&#8221;:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/apnews.com\/article\/south-asia-pakistan-india-kashmir-asia-4a251b6e100daa987f0cedf4c2525c01\">Pakistan, India Peace Move Silences Deadly Kashmir Frontier<\/a> (AP)<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>U.S. and its allies started the &#8220;illegal, undeclared, and criminal&#8221; war against the Yemen. Now, Secretary of State Anthony Blinken calls on \u00e2\u20ac\u0153&#8217;all parties&#8217; to allow unhindered import and distribution of food and fuel&#8221; even as U.S. naval blockade prevents &#8220;food and fuel from reaching those 20 million Yemenis&#8221;: Yemen\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s Blood Is on US Hands [&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-84120","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\/84120","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=84120"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/blog.minaret.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/84120\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":84122,"href":"https:\/\/blog.minaret.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/84120\/revisions\/84122"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.minaret.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=84120"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.minaret.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=84120"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.minaret.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=84120"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}