{"id":94864,"date":"2026-05-21T22:00:37","date_gmt":"2026-05-22T03:00:37","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blog.minaret.org\/?p=94864"},"modified":"2026-05-21T22:00:37","modified_gmt":"2026-05-22T03:00:37","slug":"news-and-analysis-5-21-26","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blog.minaret.org\/?p=94864","title":{"rendered":"News and Analysis 5\/21\/26"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>&#8220;Democratic Rep. Gregory Meeks of New York, who sponsored the war powers resolution, has said he expects to have the votes this time around&#8221;:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/apnews.com\/article\/iran-war-donald-trump-congress-vote-8038c7f9552186716d01f910d6a0d356\">Democrats Are Hoping for a Breakthrough as the House Takes Another Iran War Vote<\/a>\u00a0(AP)<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>&#8220;The U.S. is threatening to revoke the visas of the Palestinian delegation to the United Nations unless the Palestinian ambassador to the U.N. withdraws his run for vice president of the General Assembly&#8221;:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.npr.org\/2026\/05\/20\/nx-s1-5828826\/us-palestinians-un\">The U.S. Threatens to Revoke the Palestinian U.N. Ambassador&#8217;s Visa<\/a> (NPR)<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>&#8220;&#8216;He\u2019ll do whatever I want him to do,&#8217; the US president said&#8221;:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.cnn.com\/2026\/05\/20\/politics\/trump-netanyahu-tense-phone-call\">Trump and Netanyahu Diverge on Iran War\u2019s Future in Tense Phone Call<\/a> (CNN)<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>&#8220;The balance of power between the army and the militia that controls Darfur may be shifting, but which way is not yet clear&#8221;:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/en.majalla.com\/node\/331180\/politics\/rsf-defections-turning-point-sudans-war\">RSF Defections: a Turning Point in Sudan&#8217;s War?<\/a> (Al Majalla)<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>The Zionist war on free speech continues:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.aljazeera.com\/opinions\/2026\/5\/21\/canada-is-using-its-borders-to-police-palestine-solidarity\">Canada Is Using Its Borders to Police Palestine Solidarity<\/a> (Aljazeera)<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><span data-v-03e8ff79=\"\">&#8220;U.S. Central Command reports that 91 commercial ships have been redirected during the blockade&#8221;:<\/span><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.livenowfox.com\/news\/iran-latest-may-21\">Iran Latest: Fifth Ship Boarded in US Blockade of Iranian Vessels<\/a> (LiveNow Fox)<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&#8220;Democratic Rep. Gregory Meeks of New York, who sponsored the war powers resolution, has said he expects to have the votes this time around&#8221;: Democrats Are Hoping for a Breakthrough as the House Takes Another Iran War Vote\u00a0(AP) &#8220;The U.S. is threatening to revoke the visas of the Palestinian delegation to the United Nations unless [&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-94864","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\/94864","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=94864"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/blog.minaret.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/94864\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":94865,"href":"https:\/\/blog.minaret.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/94864\/revisions\/94865"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.minaret.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=94864"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.minaret.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=94864"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.minaret.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=94864"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}