{"id":84601,"date":"2021-08-03T19:04:49","date_gmt":"2021-08-04T00:04:49","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blog.minaret.org\/?p=84601"},"modified":"2021-08-03T19:04:49","modified_gmt":"2021-08-04T00:04:49","slug":"news-and-analysis-8-3-21","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blog.minaret.org\/?p=84601","title":{"rendered":"News and Analysis 8\/3\/21"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The Israeli high court insulted the homeowners by proposing they &#8220;could stay in their homes for now&#8221; if they began paying rent to the Jewish settler group pretending to ownership of their homes:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.democracynow.org\/2021\/8\/3\/sheikh_jarrah_evictions_israeli_supreme_court\">Palestinians Reject Israeli Court\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s Deal That Would Put Them at \u00e2\u20ac\u0153Mercy of Settlers\u00e2\u20ac\u009d in Sheikh Jarrah<\/a> (Democracy Now)<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>In the midst of a national security state, Muslim communities are &#8220;deeply harmed&#8221; as watchdogs and civil liberty groups &#8220;raise concerns that Biden&#8217;s Domestic Extremism Strategy&#8221; will &#8220;amplify bias and erode civil liberties&#8221;:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.rightsanddissent.org\/news\/muslim-activists-call-bs-on-biden\/?eType=EmailBlastContent&amp;eId=990dffc1-0752-4851-b49b-0af508257755\">New Name, Same Flaws, Pt. 2: Muslim Activists Call BS on Biden<\/a> (Rights &amp; Dissent)<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>U.S. tax money was used to fund an IranDisinfo campaign targeting &#8220;journalists, policy analysts, and human rights defenders with attacks that crossed the line into personal abuse&#8221;:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.hrw.org\/news\/2021\/08\/03\/social-media-harassment-iran-researchers-activists#\">Social Media Harassment of Iran Researchers, Activists<\/a> (Human Rights Watch)<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Two newly released pieces of footage support eyewitness claims that &#8220;that the father and his three children who were in the car with him decided to backtrack after encountering a roadblock at the entrance to Beit&#8221; before 13 shots were fired:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.haaretz.com\/israel-news\/.premium-videos-of-idf-shooting-of-12-year-old-palestinian-casts-doubt-israeli-army-s-account-1.10079528\">Footage of IDF Shooting of 12-year-old Palestinian Casts Doubt Israeli Army&#8217;s Account<\/a> (Haaretz)<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>A United Nations report released last Saturday states that &#8220;Israeli occupation forces have killed four Palestinians, including two children&#8221; and have recently &#8220;wounded 1090, including 141 children&#8221;:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.middleeastmonitor.com\/20210731-un-israel-killed-4-palestinians-injured-1090-in-last-20-days\/\">UN: Israel Killed 4 Palestinians, Injured 1,090 in Last 20 Days<\/a> (Middle East Monitor)<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>The Mississippi city&#8217;s failure to provide air conditioning threatens damaging manuscripts du eto the heat and humidity:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.wjtv.com\/news\/local\/international-museum-of-muslim-cultures-has-been-without-ac-for-two-months\/\">International Museum of Muslim Cultures Has Been Without AC for Two Months<\/a> (WJTV)<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Three bystanders were injured after police in Indian occupied Kashmir &#8220;resorted to indiscriminate firing in Srinagar city&#8221;:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.kmsnews.org\/kms\/2021\/08\/03\/three-civilians-injured-in-indian-polices-firing-in-srinagar.html\">Three Civilians Injured in Indian Police\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s Firing in Srinagar<\/a> (Kashmir Media Service)<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Powerful blasts followed by sporadic gunfire hit Afghanistan\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s capital Kabul on Tuesday near the city\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s heavily fortified \u00e2\u20ac\u0153Green Zone\u00e2\u20ac\u009d, an area &#8220;home to government buildings and foreign embassies&#8221; as the Taliban close in:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.cnn.com\/2021\/08\/03\/middleeast\/taliban-afghanistan-us-airstrikes-helmand-herat-intl\/index.html\">Powerful Blast Rocks Kabul After Afghan Army Urges Civilians to Leave Taliban-Controlled Areas of Major City<\/a> (CNN)<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>The status of &#8220;at least four tankers in the Gulf of Oman&#8221; is uncertain while another is confirmed to have been &#8220;reportedly hijacked by gunman&#8221; believed to be from Iran:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.reuters.com\/world\/report-attack-under-way-off-uae-coast-ukmto-2021-08-03\/\">Iran Backed Forces Seize Tanker, Maritime Sources Say<\/a> (Reuters)<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Israeli high court insulted the homeowners by proposing they &#8220;could stay in their homes for now&#8221; if they began paying rent to the Jewish settler group pretending to ownership of their homes: Palestinians Reject Israeli Court\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s Deal That Would Put Them at \u00e2\u20ac\u0153Mercy of Settlers\u00e2\u20ac\u009d in Sheikh Jarrah (Democracy Now) In the midst of [&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-84601","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\/84601","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=84601"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/blog.minaret.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/84601\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":84604,"href":"https:\/\/blog.minaret.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/84601\/revisions\/84604"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.minaret.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=84601"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.minaret.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=84601"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.minaret.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=84601"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}