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“Google Plus is relevant, hip, and used by Americans and Russian trolls alike.  It’s really the cat’s pajamas.” By Danny Nash, correspondent Washington, January 17 – Representatives of tech giant Google maintained a vigil outside lawmakers’ offices today in a ...

The prime minister called talk of his supposed inability to conduct the business of the state a naan-issue. Jerusalem, January 17 – Political adversaries of the prime minister took to the media today to denounce him for using a trip ...

“Our crops will suffer otherwise.” Amman, January 16 – Popular discontent at a longstanding peace agreement with Israel has residents of the Hashemite kingdom calling for the country’s ambassador to be withdrawn from the Jewish State, hopefully carrying some drinkable ...

The Wide-Echo Broadcast Emission of Revolutionary Noise (WEBERN) system is slated to begin full operations next month. Kerem Shalom Crossing, January 15 – Israeli security officials announced on Sunday a renewed effort to target attack tunnels of the terrorist organization ...

By Yahya Sinwar, Hamas Leader It’s been more than three years since we last provoked a war that killed thousands and left tens of thousands more homeless. One can debate the merits or timing of the conflict, but one clear ...

“Compared to the evidence for a workable Two-State Solution, the idea that the Rebbe is Moshiach is a slam dunk.” Crown Heights, January 10 – Adherents of the belief that the late Rebbe of the Lubavitch Hasidic movement did not, in fact, ...

“It takes a special sort of idiot, or a tourist, I suppose, to think it’s worth paying to urinate.” Jerusalem, January 11 – Confusion has reigned in Israel since the introduction of public toilet facilities that require payment for use, ...

“Jerusalem is no more Jordanian than is Rome. Why should Jordan only be granted custodian status over Jerusalem?” Jerusalem, January 11 – Responding to recurring Arab and Western insistence that the Hashemite kingdom to its east be granted official status ...

“Haaretz, at least, should know better, with its out-in-the-open prioritizing of political change over journalistic integrity.” Tel Aviv, January 10 – Members of Israel’s political Opposition and adherents of parties or ideologies at odds with the governing right-wing coalition expressed resignation ...

It seems to be taken out of The Transformers, He-Man, or something else made to appeal to a ten-year-old. Tehran, January 10 – Political commentators and officials have taken note recently that despite the caricatured, moralizing fantasy connotations of the term, there ...