{"id":84633,"date":"2021-08-14T14:52:45","date_gmt":"2021-08-14T19:52:45","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blog.minaret.org\/?p=84633"},"modified":"2021-08-14T14:52:45","modified_gmt":"2021-08-14T19:52:45","slug":"news-and-analysis-8-14-21","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blog.minaret.org\/?p=84633","title":{"rendered":"News and Analysis 8\/14\/21"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Pakistan serves as a scapegoat for the United States as they exit Afghanistan, ending a 20 year war that &#8220;created a political order that prioritized its counterterrorism agenda over the Afghan people&#8221;:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.trtworld.com\/opinion\/sanction-pakistan-try-blaming-america-for-afghanistan-49159\">Sanction Pakistan? Try Blaming America for Afghanistan<\/a>\u00c2\u00a0(TRT World)<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>In the past 13 days, the Israeli apartheid regime has illegally &#8220;demolished, seized or forced people to demolish 57 Palestinian-owned structures across the West Bank&#8221; according to a report released by the United Nations:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.palestinechronicle.com\/un-report-israel-demolished-57-palestinian-owned-structures-in-two-weeks\/\">UN Report: Israel Demolished 57 Palestinian-Owned Structures in Two Weeks<\/a> (Palestine Chronicle)<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>The Israeli army Friday attacked Palestinian worshipers with sound bombs &#8220;after they performed Friday prayers at Ibrahimi Mosque&#8221; in the center of Hebron city in the occupied West Bank:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.aljazeera.com\/news\/2021\/8\/13\/israeli-forces-attack-palestinian-worshippers-ibrahimi-mosque-hebron\">Israeli Forces Attack Worshippers at Ibrahimi Mosque in Hebron<\/a> (Al-Jazeera)<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Four generations of Hanna Alshaikh&#8217;s family have been living in exile from their village &#8220;after being made refugees during the Israeli war of 1967&#8221;:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>\u00c2\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.middleeasteye.net\/opinion\/israel-palestine-yalu-exiles-will-return-nakba\">My Yalu Story: One day, Exiles Will Return to The Village Israel Destroyed<\/a> (Middle East Eye)<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Israel&#8217;s colonialist regime continues its illegal expansion &#8220;into the West Bank and Nablus&#8221; as Palestinians are evicted and brutalized by Israeli forces:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.xinhuanet.com\/english\/2021-08\/14\/c_1310126297_2.htm\">Palestinians Protest Against Jewish Settlements Expansion in West Bank<\/a>\u00c2\u00a0 (Xinhuanet)<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>The number of millionaires in Iran has exploded despite the country suffering under U.S. sanctions and the Covid-19 pandemic:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.middleeasteye.net\/news\/iran-millionaire-boom-us-sanctions-covid-pandemic\">Iran Witnessing Millionaire Boom Despite US Sanctions and Fifth Covid-19 Wave<\/a> (Middle East Eye)<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Pakistan serves as a scapegoat for the United States as they exit Afghanistan, ending a 20 year war that &#8220;created a political order that prioritized its counterterrorism agenda over the Afghan people&#8221;: Sanction Pakistan? Try Blaming America for Afghanistan\u00c2\u00a0(TRT World) In the past 13 days, the Israeli apartheid regime has illegally &#8220;demolished, seized or forced [&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-84633","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\/84633","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=84633"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/blog.minaret.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/84633\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":84638,"href":"https:\/\/blog.minaret.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/84633\/revisions\/84638"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.minaret.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=84633"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.minaret.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=84633"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.minaret.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=84633"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}