“I need to be screaming insults at customers, especially tourists, at least twenty minutes a day.” Jerusalem, May 5 – The proprietor of a spice, nut, and seed establishment at this city’s main open-air market voiced his continued frustration today ...
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Chocolate-covered wafers are a staple of Ramadan daytime eating. Ofer Prison, May 4 – Human rights organizations issued yet another denunciation of Israel’s security and defense policies today following revelations that the Jewish State has not given Palestinians incarcerated in ...
Read More »Simba, Everything The Light Touches Is Our Kingdom Unless Muslims Ever Ruled It, Even Briefly
by King Mufasa Serengeti – Simba, look out over the pridelands. All the way to the horizon in all directions. Everything the sunlight touches, we hold sway. Except for that shadowy place, the badlands where the hyenas roam. And except ...
Read More »Saeb Erekat To Highlight HBO Comedy Special
“The on-stage characters seem to seriously believe in the morally-inverted universe they inhabit.” New York, April 30 – A leading cable network and entertainment production company announced today it will harness the comedic potential of a mostly-untapped resource: leading Palestinian ...
Read More »Community Performs Annual Ritual Of Arguing Whether To Make Bracha On Yom Haatzmaut Hallel
“It’s a cherished community custom.” West Hempstead, New York, April 29 – Israel’s Chief Rabbinate long ago ordained the recitation of a series of laudatory and thanksgiving Psalms on the anniversary of Israel’s statehood announcement in 1948, and some synagogues ...
Read More »Iran Promises To Spend Only 100% Of Aid Money, Sanctions Relief On Weapons
“Let our past behavior be your guide to how we will spend these funds.” Tehran, April 28 – Ayatollah Ali Khamenei’s sanctions- and coronavirus-battered regime urged the international community today to break with the United States and reopen commercial ties, ...
Read More »All 6 Israelis Not Ministers In New Gov’t Bummed, Insulted
“I had my eye on the ministry of money laundering.” Nahariya, April 27 – The half-dozen citizens whose names have not been included in the roster of ministers forming the new national unity government admitted today they feel left out, ...
Read More »Israeli Man Buys Brown Dog, Doesn’t Name It ‘Shoko’
A neighbor declined to be identified by name, citing concerns of associated shame in the deeply conservative society of secular Israelis. Jerusalem, April 23 – Neighbors, relatives, and friends of a local resident expressed shock this morning upon discovering that he had ...
Read More »Social Distancing Stymies Palestinian Plans To Ram Cars Into Israeli Crowds
“The question we must ask ourselves is twofold: first, whose fault is it, and second, why bother asking when we know it’s always Israel’s fault?” Maaleh Adummim, April 23 – A ramming and stabbing attack against an Israel Border Guard ...
Read More »Glad To Get Yom HaShoah Over With So I Can Call For Another Shoah With A Clear Conscience
by Zarah Sultana, Labour Party MP for Coventry South London, 21 April – Thank goodness that’s done. Feigning concern for the welfare of Jews one day a year on the anniversary of the Warsaw Ghetto Uprising exacts a price in ...
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