{"id":84177,"date":"2021-04-17T10:23:43","date_gmt":"2021-04-17T15:23:43","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blog.minaret.org\/?p=84177"},"modified":"2021-04-17T10:23:43","modified_gmt":"2021-04-17T15:23:43","slug":"news-and-analysis-4-17-21","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blog.minaret.org\/?p=84177","title":{"rendered":"News and Analysis 4\/17\/21"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Despite checkpoints, restrictions, and Israeli police action sabotage to Al-Aqsa mosque loudspeakers, 70,000 Palestinians managed to make it to the first Friday services in Ramadan:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.middleeasteye.net\/news\/ramadan-israel-palestine-thousands-blocked-aqsa-first-friday\">Israel Restricts Entry to Al-Aqsa Mosque For Palestinians on First Friday of Ramadan<\/a> (Middle East Eye)<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Mansour al-Shahatit&#8217;s &#8220;deplorable state after being freed &#8230; suffering from memory loss as a result of torture and solitary confinement for many years in Israeli jails&#8221; reflects the plight of an &#8220;estimated 4,500 Palestinians are languishing in jail, many for simply challenging Israel\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s occupation&#8221;:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.aljazeera.com\/news\/2021\/4\/17\/lives-are-gone-palestinians-mark-prisoners-day\">\u00e2\u20ac\u02dcLives Gone\u00e2\u20ac\u2122: Palestinians Mark Prisoner\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s Day<\/a> (Aljazeera)<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>As <a href=\"https:\/\/thekashmirwalla.com\/2021\/04\/woman-injured-as-crpf-opens-fire-at-suspected-vehicle-in-south-kashmir\/\">Indian police continue their killings of Kashmiri people<\/a>, a virtual criminalization of media coverage of police reflects the government&#8217;s intention to leave &#8220;no space for any dissent or criticism of the government policies and police action on any platform&#8221;:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/kashmirobserver.net\/2021\/04\/16\/ccg-paints-grim-picture-of-kashmir-situation\/\">CCG Paints Grim Picture Of Kashmir Situation<\/a> (Kashmir Observer)<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Conservative democrats continue to protect Israeli interests in a clash with Biden&#8217;s policies in the Israel-Palestine conflict, seeking to &#8220;raise the political cost of addressing Israel-Palestine at all&#8221; to permit the &#8220;<em>de facto<\/em> annexation (of Palestine) that has been going on for decades&#8221;:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.972mag.com\/democrats-middle-east-biden-menendez\/\">How Hawkish Democrats Are Impeding Biden\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s Middle East Policy<\/a> (+972 Magazine)<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Iran has identified 43 year old Reza Karimi as a suspect in the Natanz attack, stating that &#8220;he fled the country hours before the sabotage happened&#8221;:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/apnews.com\/article\/middle-east-iran-dce8b4db16cfc6a019635ad9f6b0d3cf\">Iran Names Suspect in Natanz Attack<\/a> (AP News)<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Iran&#8217;s Foreign ministry spokesman Saeed Khatibzadeh condemns the GCC&#8217;s call &#8220;to include its demands in the 2015 nuclear deal with world powers&#8221; as a move to prevent U.S. return to the agreement that had put the brakes on Iran&#8217;s nuclear development:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.aljazeera.com\/news\/2021\/4\/17\/iran-says-arab-states-trying-to-derail-nuclear-talks-in-vienna\">Iran Says GCC Trying to Derail Nuclear Talks in Vienna<\/a> (Aljazeera)<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>The Abrahamic Accords, agreements between the United States, Israel, and the United Arab Emirates, serve as a thin veil to hide the true geopolitical intentions of each country involved:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.palestinechronicle.com\/the-myth-of-peace-in-the-middle-east-deconstructing-the-naturalization-narrative\/\">The Myth of Peace in the Middle East: Deconstructing the Naturalization Narrative<\/a> (Palestine Chronicle)<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Despite checkpoints, restrictions, and Israeli police action sabotage to Al-Aqsa mosque loudspeakers, 70,000 Palestinians managed to make it to the first Friday services in Ramadan: Israel Restricts Entry to Al-Aqsa Mosque For Palestinians on First Friday of Ramadan (Middle East Eye) Mansour al-Shahatit&#8217;s &#8220;deplorable state after being freed &#8230; suffering from memory loss as a [&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-84177","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\/84177","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=84177"}],"version-history":[{"count":7,"href":"https:\/\/blog.minaret.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/84177\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":84184,"href":"https:\/\/blog.minaret.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/84177\/revisions\/84184"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.minaret.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=84177"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.minaret.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=84177"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.minaret.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=84177"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}