Even a soldier who was only seventeen at war’s end would be pushing ninety today. Tehran, December 19 – Pseudohistorians and activists working to preserve the memory of people who deny there was anything to remember about what the Nazis ...
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“Some public officials who should know better would rather sit in their chauffeured vehicles and sneer at hoi polloi than set an example for reducing traffic volume.” Jerusalem, December 18 – Israel’s highest-ranking official involved in the anticipation, assessment, and ...
Read More »Police Beat Stranded Motorist Wearing Reflective Yellow Vest
“Disruptions of law and order occur in close connection with these vests, as events in Paris demonstrate.” Jerusalem, December 17 – Law enforcement personnel pummeled a man wearing the signature uniform of a violent anti-government protester this morning, only to ...
Read More »J Street Joins Ocasio-Cortez: ‘Our Ancestors Might Have Been Jewish Too’
Director Jeremy Ben-Ami boasted that some of his distant ancestors spoke Yiddish and likely participated in such Jewish rituals as Passover seders. New York, December 12 – A lobbying organization billing itself as “pro-Israel, pro-peace” lauded a Congresswoman-elect from New ...
Read More »Haaretz: Hezbollah Tunnels Legitimate Effort To Find Evidence Of IDF War Crimes
“The effort to neutralize those tunnels appears to qualify as obstruction of justice.” Tel Aviv, December 13 – A prominent Israeli daily newspaper is calling excavations by a Lebanese Shiite terrorist group into sovereign Israeli territory a sound moral and ...
Read More »If Australia Moves Its Embassy To Jerusalem, We’ll Keep Doing The Awful Things That Led Them To Do So
By Saeb Erekat, Palestine Liberation Organization Ramallah, December 12 – The news out of the Australian capital today could not be worse for the righteous Palestinian cause: the government there appears on the verge of approving recognition of Jerusalem as ...
Read More »Rifts In Church Of Intersectionality Over Hierarchy Of Victimhood
Rival intramural groups place either Muslims or transgender women of color at the top of the victimhood ladder, but not both. Berkeley, December 11 – Divisions among officials and lay figures in the world’s most progressive religious movement worsened today ...
Read More »Obama Drone Victims Relieved To Be Killed By Liberal Administration
“My gory, agonizing demise is a small price to pay for the utopia he brought about.” Mogadishu, Somalia, December 10 – Departed souls whose bond with their corporeal selves met a premature end in UAV-fired missile attacks before 2017 expressed ...
Read More »Netanyahu Critics Say New Corruption Probe Just To Distract From Old Corruption Probes
“I urge the public and the media not be taken in by this subterfuge,” admonished Labor MK Avi Gabbay. Jerusalem, December 5 – Political opponents and rivals of Israel’s prime minister accused him today of orchestrating the latest round of ...
Read More »Man Likes To Pretend He Eats Less Fried Food When It’s Not Hanukkah
Mr. Ravui’s devotion to Jewish tradition includes a robust embrace of the culinary, with less emphasis on the moral dimension. Ramat HaSharon, December 6 – A local resident whose regular culinary habits consist of such dishes as falafel, kubbeh, French fries, ...
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