PreOccupied Territory The News In Advance. Barely.

“It’s quite a departure from the Saint Nick of yore.” Nazareth, December 26 – Children from economically disadvantaged families compared their Christmas presents today to those of better-off friends and neighbors and came to the conclusion that Kris Kringle must ...

The position dovetails with that of Secretary of State Cordell Hull and of civic organizations such as the Ku Klux Klan. Washington, December 25 – Leaders of a prominent progressive group sent letters today to US President Franklin Delano Roosevelt ...

Some have allowed their grievances to temper the excitement of Donald Trump’s announcement of a troop withdrawal from Syria. Beirut, December 24 – Fighters in the Shiite militia that dominates Lebanon expressed resentment today that a less-capable colleague has received ...

Outwardly I have to act as if I’m really annoyed. Efrata, December 19 – Don’t tell my wife, but the recent foofaraw over de-listing Jewish-owned short-term rental properties in Judea and Samaria provides just the excuse I need to delay ...

Establishments pursuing a more elite non-kosher clientele will also enjoy more expensive options such as certification that the establishment uses or serves wine consecrated or offered to idolatry. Jerusalem, December 20 – Israel’s religious establishment will begin levying fees on ...

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 ...

“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 ...

“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 ...

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 ...

“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 ...