{"id":84639,"date":"2021-08-17T17:44:44","date_gmt":"2021-08-17T22:44:44","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blog.minaret.org\/?p=84639"},"modified":"2021-08-17T17:44:44","modified_gmt":"2021-08-17T22:44:44","slug":"news-and-analysis-8-17-21","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blog.minaret.org\/?p=84639","title":{"rendered":"News and Analysis 8\/17\/21"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>U.S. intervention created the corruption in Afghanistan that made the Taliban takeover so easy in the end &#8230;<\/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> (TRT World)<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/holliesmckay.substack.com\/p\/dispatches-from-afghanistan-the-bombshell?token=eyJ1c2VyX2lkIjo3MDEzODMyLCJwb3N0X2lkIjo0MDEyNDk3NywiXyI6ImtRSjFGIiwiaWF0IjoxNjI5MjE3MjQ1LCJleHAiOjE2MjkyMjA4NDUsImlzcyI6InB1Yi0zOTEyMDYiLCJzdWIiOiJwb3N0LXJlYWN0aW9uIn0.C2Bj0MGi_a-vQDAB2-9KxkfqTDfheODqBYK95tPIqMA\">Dispatches from Afghanistan: The Bombshell Interview<\/a> (Hollie McKay)<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>&#8230; but will the Taliban do any better than they did last time?<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/jamesmdorsey.substack.com\/p\/defining-change-who-are-the-taliban?token=eyJ1c2VyX2lkIjo3MDEzODMyLCJwb3N0X2lkIjo0MDExOTM1MywiXyI6ImtRSjFGIiwiaWF0IjoxNjI5MjE3OTI4LCJleHAiOjE2MjkyMjE1MjgsImlzcyI6InB1Yi0yNDY4MjgiLCJzdWIiOiJwb3N0LXJlYWN0aW9uIn0.6yct1RwF4ZamqhOI5CBWAxWwJ47o2czssuLiiHQexZE\">Defining Change: Who Are the Taliban that Conquered Afghanistan?<\/a> (Middle East Soccer)<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.reuters.com\/article\/us-afghanistan-conflict\/taliban-striking-dovish-tone-promise-peace-and-womens-rights-under-islam-idUSKBN2FI0AT\">Taliban, Striking Dovish Tone, Pledge Peace and Women&#8217;s Rights Under Islam<\/a> (Reuters)<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>The Israeli apartheid regime&#8217;s colonial justice system continues to side with settlers as they reject another Palestinian petition that was done &#8220;in response to the illegal Avyatar outpost&#8221;:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.palestinechronicle.com\/israeli-court-rejects-palestinians-claim-to-beita-land\/\">Israeli Court Rejects Palestinians\u00e2\u20ac\u2122 Claim to Beita Land<\/a> (Palestine Chronicle)<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<div class=\"social\">In the occupied West Bank,\u00c2\u00a0 four Palestinians were shot dead after Israeli soldiers raided the Jenin refugee camp:<\/div>\n<ul>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.middleeasteye.net\/news\/west-bank-israel-palestinian-jenin-raid-palestinians-shot-killed\">West Bank: Israeli Forces Kill Four Palestinians During Jenin Camp Raid<\/a> (Middle East Eye)<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p class=\"default__StyledText-sc-1jtxuc8-0 cPKviz body-paragraph\">The 11-day assault on Gaza may be over, but &#8220;unexploded bombs&#8221; are still killing those who survived the initial Israeli bombardment, humanitarian organizations and engineering teams say:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.middleeasteye.net\/big-story\/israel-palestine-gaza-strip-unexploded-bombs\">The War is Not Over&#8217;: The Gaza Strip&#8217;s Unexploded Bombs<\/a> (Middle East Eye)<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>The following study questions the efficacy of US and European sanctions on Syria concluding that &#8220;the current model of sanctions is suboptimal, with a high likelihood that sanction targets can use evasive strategies to avoid any actual harm&#8221;:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.mei.edu\/publications\/comprehensive-review-effectiveness-us-and-eu-sanctions-syria\">A Comprehensive Review of The Effectiveness of US and EU Sanctions on Syria<\/a> (MEI @75)<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>To only win back the support of US Jews Israel must behaves in a manner &#8220;that is consistent with their moral frame of reference&#8221; meaning that &#8220;it would have to end its military occupation, dismantle its apartheid regime and reverse its racist laws&#8221;:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.middleeastmonitor.com\/20210817-the-quiet-rebellion-of-us-jews-turning-against-israel-is-good-for-palestinians\/\">The Quiet Rebellion of US Jews Turning Against Israel is Good For Palestinians<\/a> (Middle East Monitor)<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Similar to the tactics they employed during Vietnam, U.S officials continuously lied\u00c2\u00a0 &#8220;to justify the U.S\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s endless occupation of the country&#8221; as well as to &#8220;concoct a pleasing fairy tale about why the prior twenty years were not an utter waste&#8221;:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/greenwald.substack.com\/p\/the-us-government-lied-for-two-decades\">The U.S. Government Lied for Two Decades About Afghanistan<\/a> (Glenn Greenwald)<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>U.S. intervention created the corruption in Afghanistan that made the Taliban takeover so easy in the end &#8230; Sanction Pakistan? Try Blaming America for Afghanistan (TRT World) Dispatches from Afghanistan: The Bombshell Interview (Hollie McKay) &#8230; but will the Taliban do any better than they did last time? Defining Change: Who Are the Taliban that [&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-84639","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\/84639","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=84639"}],"version-history":[{"count":6,"href":"https:\/\/blog.minaret.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/84639\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":84646,"href":"https:\/\/blog.minaret.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/84639\/revisions\/84646"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.minaret.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=84639"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.minaret.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=84639"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.minaret.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=84639"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}