{"id":94037,"date":"2026-02-14T06:31:04","date_gmt":"2026-02-14T11:31:04","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blog.minaret.org\/?p=94037"},"modified":"2026-02-14T08:46:56","modified_gmt":"2026-02-14T13:46:56","slug":"news-and-analysis-2-14-26","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blog.minaret.org\/?p=94037","title":{"rendered":"News and Analysis 2\/14\/26"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Settler violence and Israeli war crimes continue &#8230;<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.aljazeera.com\/news\/2026\/2\/13\/israeli-settlers-injure-dozens-of-palestinians-in-wave-of-west-bank-attacks\">Israeli Settlers Injure at Least 54 Palestinians in West Bank Attacks<\/a> (Aljazeera)<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/duckduckgo.com\/?t=ffab&amp;q=How+140+outposts+seized+1+million+dunams%3A+The+untold+story+of+the+%22Landlords%22+of+the+West+Bank+%28Unxeptable+%2F+YouTube%29&amp;atb=v328-1&amp;ia=videos&amp;iax=videos&amp;iai=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.youtube.com%2Fwatch%3Fv%3DN6ESdc80S7A\">How 140 Outposts Seized 1 Million Dunams: The Untold Story of the &#8220;Landlords&#8221; of the West Bank<\/a> (Unxeptable \/ YouTube)<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/mondoweiss.net\/2026\/02\/how-israel-is-eroding-life-for-palestinians-in-the-west-bank\/\">How Israel Is Eroding Life for Palestinians in the West Bank<\/a> (Mondoweiss)<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=emYZ4LkgF0o\">Israel Accused of Spraying Chemicals to Poison Syrian Farmland<\/a> (Aljazeerah \/ YouTube)<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.palestinechronicle.com\/strangling-gazas-survivors-criminalizing-humanity-the-banning-of-humanitarian-relief-in-palestine\/\">Strangling Gaza\u2019s Survivors, Criminalizing Humanity: The Banning of Humanitarian Relief in Palestine<\/a> (Palestine Chronicle)<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>&#8230; and Israel now exports its illegal weapons to the U.S.:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/theintercept.com\/2026\/02\/06\/pentagon-israel-cluster-munitions-weapons-sale\/\">Pentagon Makes Largest Known Arms Purchase From Israel \u2014 For Banned Cluster Weapons<\/a> (The Intercept)<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>&#8220;Iraq is looking to put on trial some of the thousands of the IS detainees who were held for years in Syria without charges or access to the judicial system&#8221;:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonpost.com\/world\/2026\/02\/13\/syria-iraq-islamic-state-group-centcom-transfer-detainees-prisons-sdf\/248a5850-08e9-11f1-b196-5e1986b3575c_story.html\">U.S. Military Completes Transfer of 5,700 IS Detainees from Syria to Iraq<\/a> (Washington Post)<\/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.theguardian.com\/commentisfree\/2026\/feb\/13\/palestine-action-ruling-vindicates-courageous-shames-complicit\">Zionists Tell You Exactly What They Are Doing and How They&#8217;re Going to Do It<\/a> (The Young Turks \/ YouTube)<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/commentisfree\/2026\/feb\/13\/palestine-action-ruling-vindicates-courageous-shames-complicit\">The Palestine Action Ruling Vindicates the Courageous \u2013 and Shames the Complicit<\/a> (The Guardian)<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.the-independent.com\/news\/uk\/home-news\/shabana-mahmood-palestine-action-mps-labour-government-b2920299.html\">Labour MPs Urge Government Not to Appeal Against Palestine Action Ruling<\/a> (The Independent)<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.aljazeera.com\/news\/2026\/2\/14\/arundhati-roy-shocked-by-jurys-gaza-remarks-quits-berlin-film-festival\">Arundhati Roy \u2018Shocked\u2019 by Jury\u2019s Gaza Remarks, Quits Berlin Film Festival<\/a> (Aljazeera)<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>&#8220;[D]espite repression, Iranian society remains politically engaged, intellectually active, and publicly vocal from within the country itself&#8221;:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/niacouncil.org\/iranian-civil-society-wounded-but-alive-after-crackdown-some-reformists-released-u-s-military-threats-loom-and-more\/?ms=260213_iu_c3&amp;emci=ce7d880d-fa08-f111-832e-0022482a9733&amp;emdi=07498a2e-2309-f111-832e-0022482a9733&amp;ceid=11896094#2anchor\">Wounded but Alive: Civil Society, Political Debate, and Cultural Resistance Inside Iran After the January Crackdown<\/a> (NIAC)<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>The HUD investigation &#8220;comes after the U.S. Justice Department quietly closed its own probe into the housing project, saying the developers agreed to follow federal fair housing laws&#8221;:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.texastribune.org\/2026\/02\/13\/epic-hud-north-texas-islam-muslim-housing-development\/\">Feds Launch Fair Housing Probe into North Texas Development Marketed to Muslims<\/a> (Texas Tribune)<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>&#8220;The USS Gerald R. Ford, deployed since June, will cross the Atlantic for a second time despite a Navy warning that the warship needs maintenance&#8221;:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/news.google.com\/read\/CBMiogFBVV95cUxQY1NOYko4TWNOYUE1dkg2a2N2RFlxMnZXU2NPd3VMa2Vnb1M1Z0VERktuMkZaYkVyYXRMZHRLSlJjVEdQZFh5eFd2TWpHdjdLMXNCSmhzSWhZRU94NThpb192d3JlZmJGMng4WmozcWF6NzFmOTZVLWxCeVl0dXhEV3NCV2ZhdzE3UzU0dmNiN0hnMkgxcVI3VjNmbDkzR3pIN2c?hl=en-US&amp;gl=US&amp;ceid=US%3Aen\">U.S. Orders Second Aircraft Carrier to Middle East as Trump Pressures Iran<\/a> (Washington Post)<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>AIPAC&#8217;s techniques earlier this year allowed &#8220;significant financial backing to flow into targeted races while limiting public visibility into the original sources of funding&#8221;:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/nifusa.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/02\/Growing-Concern-Over-AIPAC-Dark-Money-Influence-Ahead-of-the-2026-Midterm-Elections.pdf?mc_cid=bc3f8cd8cc&amp;mc_eid=bb8c68a7f2\">Growing Concern over AIPAC Dark Money Influence Ahead of the 2026 Midterm Elections<\/a> (National Interest Foundation)<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>The petition &#8220;argues that Hungary\u2019s &#8216;Christian national heritage&#8217; is being challenged and warns of so-called &#8216;parallel communities'&#8221;:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.muslimnetwork.tv\/hungary-town-divided-as-petition-targets-small-muslim-prayer-center\/\">Hungary Town Divided as Petition Targets Small Muslim Prayer Center<\/a> (Muslim Network)<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Epstein&#8217;s &#8220;intimate relationship with Sultan Sulayem, the powerful head of the Dubai Ports World financial empire &#8230; helps reveal the hidden backstory of the Abraham Accords, which were signed one year after Epstein\u2019s death&#8221;:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.dropsitenews.com\/p\/jeffrey-epstein-united-arab-emirates-sultan-sulayem-dubai-dp-world\">\u201cPraise Allah, There Are Still People Like You\u201d: Jeffrey Epstein Nurtured Israel-Emirates Ties Before Abraham Accords<\/a> (Drop Site)<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Settler violence and Israeli war crimes continue &#8230; Israeli Settlers Injure at Least 54 Palestinians in West Bank Attacks (Aljazeera) How 140 Outposts Seized 1 Million Dunams: The Untold Story of the &#8220;Landlords&#8221; of the West Bank (Unxeptable \/ YouTube) How Israel Is Eroding Life for Palestinians in the West Bank (Mondoweiss) Israel Accused of [&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-94037","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\/94037","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=94037"}],"version-history":[{"count":9,"href":"https:\/\/blog.minaret.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/94037\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":94046,"href":"https:\/\/blog.minaret.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/94037\/revisions\/94046"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.minaret.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=94037"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.minaret.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=94037"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.minaret.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=94037"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}