PreOccupied Territory The News In Advance. Barely.

by Linda Sarsour It’s difficult for me to choose one episode or incident in Scripture that appeals to me more than any other, but if forced, I’d have to say when Moses, after four hundred years of wandering through the ...

Jews view the Temple Mount, the site of two ancient shrines and the focal point of Jewish longing for thousands of years, as the most sacred location in their religion, but no one cares what Jews think or feel. Jerusalem, ...

“This is just plain irresponsible, but, unfortunately, rather in-character for the Israeli premier.” Jerusalem, June 3 – European leaders criticized Israel’s prime minister today for what they termed “irresponsible” and “warmongering” rhetoric after the premier spoke out against Tehran’s launch ...

“We cannibals are seldom as efficient or effective in our practice.” Tel Aviv, July 2 – Practitioners of the consumption of human flesh have begun taking a keen interest in the behavior of Israel’s main political camps ahead of an ...

At no point in her prepared script did the caller apologize for the intrusion into what in most households represents one of the few stretches of quality family time. Jerusalem, June 27 – A representative of a not-for-profit organization that ...

“She apparently believes local or national political considerations trump, so to speak, our concerns.” Rafah, June 27 – Middle East Arabs who have used a term evocative of Nazi persecution and genocide of Jews to demonize Israel voiced outrage today ...

By Mahmoud Abbas, President, Palestinian National Authority Ramallah, June 26 – The Trump administration’s upcoming conference in Bahrain will go nowhere because it denies the Palestinian people the dignity they maintain through living on international handouts, refusing to develop a ...

“Some folks will insist on misinterpreting it and we’ll end up with an Israeli airstrike taking out one of our best customers.” Gaza City, June 25 – A restaurant two streets over from the largest medical facility in the Gaza ...

“It’s kind of obvious there’s something missing,” observed Carlos Latuff. London, June 24 – Editors and readers of a prominent international daily expressed confusion and concern today at the appearance in the publication of a political caricature averring the existence ...

Minister of Foreign Affairs Javad Zarif called such charges baseless, and characterized them as but the latest in ongoing American aggression and colonialism. Tehran, June 20 – A Middle East country whose military and agents maintain a long-running policy of international terrorism, ...