“It’s usually not a big deal – I mean, balloons are for burning, or at least attaching burning things to.” Khan Younis, June 18 – Tension gripped this refugee-camp-cum-urban-jungle this afternoon following an outbreak of violence at a celebration for ...
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Feed SubscriptionPoll False Because Doesn’t Show Joint List Taking 12 or 13 Seats
“Numbers and rigorous mathematics are a Zionist deceit anyway,” shrugged Ayman Odeh, list chairman. Jerusalem, June 14 – Experts debunked a survey this afternoon measuring the popularity of each party were parliamentary elections held today, noting that the clearest evidence ...
Read More »Hamas To Advise Kim On Oppressing Own People For Political Gain
“Mr. Kim has much to learn from us, and we are willing teachers.” Gaza City, June 14 – Openness that many hope will come in the aftermath of a summit between the leaders of the US and North Korea has ...
Read More »My Ophthalmology Background Was Perfect Training For Becoming A Brutal Tyrant
By Basher Assad, President, Syrian Arab Republic It’s amazing where life can take you, and how it takes you there. My dear father knew how to run a country, and brooked defiance from no one. Me, I was slated for ...
Read More »Modesty Patrol Orders Store To Cover Macaroni Elbows
Other varieties of pasta have presented no such problem. Jerusalem, June 13 – A local squad of self-appointed enforcers with a mission to maintain strict standards of behavioral and sartorial conservatism warned the proprietor of a neighborhood grocery store to ...
Read More »Democrats Hail Dennis Rodman For Success Of N Korea Summit
“I certainly can’t think of anyone more influential in this process.” Washington, June 12 – Minority leaders in Congress and their political allies praised a key figure in the developing détente with the Kim regime, a former National Basketball Association ...
Read More »Gov’t Helping Iranians Save Water Because Israelis Won’t Bother
“Judging from the selfish, entitled way Israelis act on airplanes, on the roads, in restaurants, and while waiting for anything, we realized Israelis are positively the last group to respond to initiatives of this sort.” Kibbutz Sde Eliyahu, June 11 ...
Read More »Palestinian Refugees Insist They Like Wheat Grass Juice, Lebanese Apartheid
“Have you tried this? It’s amazing.” `Ein el-Hilweh Refugee Camp, June 10 – Residents of this and other UN-administered locales for the descendants of people who fled their homes after Israel declared statehood maintain that blended stalks of immature grain ...
Read More »Equality Advocates Puzzled Why No Non-Jews Have Applied For Rabbinate
“It’s frustrating, and maybe a little suspicious.” Tel Aviv, June 6 – Activists campaigning for representation of non-Jews in the official organs of governance in Israel voiced confusion today at statistics showing that despite efforts to open Rabbinic positions to ...
Read More »Hamas Executing Human Shields Who Failed To Keep Its Men From Getting Shot
Al-Zahar declined to specify the number of designated human shield/martyrs slated for execution as a result of the fiasco. Gaza City, June 5 – The militant Islamist organization behind much of the rioting over the last several months at the ...
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