{"id":84210,"date":"2021-04-23T12:58:12","date_gmt":"2021-04-23T17:58:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blog.minaret.org\/?p=84210"},"modified":"2021-04-23T15:00:08","modified_gmt":"2021-04-23T20:00:08","slug":"news-and-analysis-4-23-21","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blog.minaret.org\/?p=84210","title":{"rendered":"News and Analysis 4\/23\/21"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>On Thursday night, far right Israelis marched through the streets of Jerusalem, as cries of &#8220;Death to Arabs, death to terrorists&#8221; eventually turned into physical violence, wounding more than &#8220;105 Palestinians&#8221;:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.aljazeera.com\/news\/2021\/4\/23\/dozens-of-palestinians-wounded-by-israeli-police-in-jerusalem\">Violent Clashes in Jerusalem After Israeli Far-Right March<\/a> (Al-Jazeera)<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>&#8220;Djabelkhir said he makes the distinction between history and myth in religious writing, but his detractors contend that &#8216;everything in the Quran is history, with a capital H'&#8221;:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.voanews.com\/africa\/algerian-professor-gets-3-year-jail-term-offending-islam\">Algerian Professor Gets 3-Year Jail Term for Offending Islam<\/a> (VoA)<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>The wife of Osama Mansour, a Palestinian man shot dead &#8220;for no apparent reason&#8221; at an Israeli checkpoint in the West Bank,\u00c2\u00a0 narrates a chilling account of how Israeli security forces opened fire without reason, wounding her and killing her husband:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/apnews.com\/article\/israel-shootings-death-of-george-floyd-west-bank-jerusalem-21df290b665efb862427c7a82630bfa6\">Shooting Revives Criticism of Israel\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s Use of Deadly Force<\/a> (Associated Press)<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>An immigrant from Gaza, a lead engineer in developing the NASA helicopter that flew on Mars says it&#8217;s harder to go to Gaza than to Mars:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=-Kasz_kRUDs\">How this NASA engineer went from Gaza to Mars<\/a> (Youtube \/ Channel 4 News)<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Mark Dankof states that Israel resorts to assassination and sabotage because it wants &#8220;an unchecked nuclear monopoly in the Middle East&#8221;:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.tehrantimes.com\/news\/460115\/Israel-seeks-an-unchecked-nuclear-monopoly-ex-Senate-candidate\">Israel Seeks an Unchecked Nuclear Monopoly: Ex-Senate Candidate<\/a> (Tehran Times)<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Though Iran raised its uranium enrichment levels in response to Israel&#8217;s attack on its Natanz nuclear facility, Iran has promised to reverse these remedial measures &#8220;if the US\u00c2\u00a0 lifts its illegal sanctions&#8221; U.S General Kenneth McKenzie affirmed, &#8220;They (Iran) have done nothing irreversible&#8221;:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.tehrantimes.com\/news\/460132\/Iran-has-not-made-any-irreversible-nuclear-moves-U-S-general\">I<\/a><a href=\"https:\/\/www.tehrantimes.com\/news\/460132\/Iran-has-not-made-any-irreversible-nuclear-moves-U-S-general\">ran Has Not Made Any Irreversible Nuclear Moves: U.S. General<\/a>\u00c2\u00a0 (Tehran Times)<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>A missile fired from Syria set off air raid sirens at Israel&#8217;s Dimona nuclear reactor after Israel failed to intercept the attack. In retaliation, Israel targeted several sites in Syria:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2021\/apr\/22\/israel-confirms-syrian-missile-landed-near-dimona-nuclear-reactor\">Israel Confirms Syrian Missile Landed near Dimona Nuclear Reactor<\/a> (The Guardian)<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>&#8220;Facing a deepening occupation and increasing authoritarianism, young Palestinians see the first national elections in 15 years as an opportunity to overhaul their political system&#8221;:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.972mag.com\/palestinian-elections-2021-youth-change\/\">Young Palestinians Are Fed Up with Their Leaders. Can Elections Bring Change?<\/a> (972 Magazine)<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Asad &#8220;was probably the first person to articulate the idea of Zionist colonialism&#8221;:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.trtworld.com\/magazine\/muhammad-asad-a-jewish-convert-who-devoted-his-life-to-serve-islam-46155\">Muhammad Asad: a Jewish Convert Who Devoted His Life to Serve Islam<\/a> (TRT World)<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>On Thursday night, far right Israelis marched through the streets of Jerusalem, as cries of &#8220;Death to Arabs, death to terrorists&#8221; eventually turned into physical violence, wounding more than &#8220;105 Palestinians&#8221;: Violent Clashes in Jerusalem After Israeli Far-Right March (Al-Jazeera) &#8220;Djabelkhir said he makes the distinction between history and myth in religious writing, but his [&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-84210","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\/84210","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=84210"}],"version-history":[{"count":9,"href":"https:\/\/blog.minaret.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/84210\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":84219,"href":"https:\/\/blog.minaret.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/84210\/revisions\/84219"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.minaret.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=84210"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.minaret.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=84210"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.minaret.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=84210"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}