{"id":92663,"date":"2025-09-23T06:03:16","date_gmt":"2025-09-23T11:03:16","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blog.minaret.org\/?p=92663"},"modified":"2025-09-23T06:03:16","modified_gmt":"2025-09-23T11:03:16","slug":"news-ans-analysis-9-23-25","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blog.minaret.org\/?p=92663","title":{"rendered":"News ans Analysis 9\/23\/25"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>&#8220;Palestinian statehood is set to take center stage at the United Nations General Assembly this week, as a flurry of Western nations announced their <a href=\"https:\/\/time.com\/7308777\/palestinian-statehood-countries-recognize-map-australia-momentum-israel-hamas-gaza\/\">official recognition<\/a> ahead of the meeting despite fierce opposition from Israel and the United States&#8221; &#8230;<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/time.com\/7319268\/palestine-state-recognition-un-trump-netanyahu\/\">At the United Nations This Week, It\u2019s Trump and Netanyahu vs. the World on Palestine<\/a> (Time)<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>&#8230; as\u00a0&#8220;several allies of Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu urged him to immediately annex the occupied West Bank, which could set off a cycle of diplomatic tit-for-tat retaliation between Israel and Western and Arab countries&#8221; &#8230;<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonpost.com\/world\/2025\/09\/22\/palestine-state-recognize-un-israel\/\">Netanyahu Vows Retaliation Ahead of More Palestine Recognitions at U.N.<\/a> (Washington Post)<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>&#8230; but Netanyahu&#8217;s &#8220;options are perhaps more constrained than he would have his supporters believe<strong>&#8220;:<\/strong><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2025\/sep\/22\/allies-recognition-of-palestine-angers-netanyahu-but-his-options-for-response-are-limited\">Netanyahu May Struggle to Find Response that Matches Rhetoric on Palestine Recognition<\/a> (The Guardian)<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>The Zionist war on free speech &#8212; and the resistance &#8212; continues:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonpost.com\/technology\/2025\/09\/09\/first-amendment-trump\/\">This Free-speech Defender Makes Enemies Left and Right<\/a> (Washington Post)<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.middleeasteye.net\/trending\/dua-lipa-drops-agent-palestine-israel-kneecap\">Dua Lipa Drops Agent over Campaign Against Pro-Palestine Group Kneecap<\/a> (Middle East Eye)<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Trump will ask Arab and Muslim states to provide funds and troops for his Gaza reconstruction ambitions:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/newsarenaindia.com\/international\/trump-to-meet-muslim-majority-nations-on-gaza-reconstruction\/57278\">Trump to Meet Muslim Majority Nations on Gaza Reconstruction<\/a> (News Arena India)<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Israeli war crimes continue:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.timesofisrael.com\/liveblog_entry\/some-640000-palestinians-believed-to-have-fled-gaza-city-amid-fresh-idf-offensive\/\">Some 640,000 Palestinians Believed to Have Fled Gaza City amid Fresh IDF Offensive<\/a> (Times of Israel)<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.aljazeera.com\/news\/liveblog\/2025\/9\/23\/live-israel-intensifies-gaza-attacks-trump-to-meet-arab-muslim-leaders\">LIVE: Israel Intensifies Gaza Attacks, Kills 22 Since Dawn<\/a> (Aljazeera)<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>&#8220;[F]irst Vice President Riek Machar began this Monday in South Sudan. He is accused by the government of treason, terrorism, and even murder&#8221;:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.france24.com\/en\/video\/20250923-south-sudan-riek-machar-s-defense-challenges-legality-of-special-court-in-treason-trial\">South Sudan: Riek Machar\u2019s Defense Challenges Legality of Special Court in Treason Trial<\/a> (France 24)<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>&#8220;Netanyahu is desperately looking for scapegoats for the international isolation he has led Israel into&#8221;:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/blogs.timesofisrael.com\/our-isolation-is-not-due-to-muslim-influence\/\">Our Isolation Is Not Due to Muslim Influence<\/a> (Times of Israel)<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>If there were a Noble Prize for pettiness in diplomacy, Trump would be a shoe-in:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/apnews.com\/article\/trump-iran-costco-united-nations-e332a1f873141a8cea999eb81a35be60\">US Bars Iran\u2019s Diplomats from Shopping at Costco Without Permission<\/a> (AP)<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&#8220;Palestinian statehood is set to take center stage at the United Nations General Assembly this week, as a flurry of Western nations announced their official recognition ahead of the meeting despite fierce opposition from Israel and the United States&#8221; &#8230; At the United Nations This Week, It\u2019s Trump and Netanyahu vs. the World on Palestine [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-92663","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\/92663","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\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.minaret.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=92663"}],"version-history":[{"count":6,"href":"https:\/\/blog.minaret.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/92663\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":92669,"href":"https:\/\/blog.minaret.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/92663\/revisions\/92669"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.minaret.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=92663"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.minaret.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=92663"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.minaret.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=92663"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}