Normally, flags disintegrate, disappear, tear apart, or are otherwise destroyed within twenty minutes of their arrival at the Simchat Torah festivities. Jerusalem, October 25 – A paper banner on a stick that was used to celebrate the completion of the annual ...
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Feed SubscriptionI Urge Palestinian-Americans To Wait Till Nov. 9, Then Vote For The Winner
We Palestinians have always been challenged with choosing the winning side in any strategic disagreement. That is why I strongly recommend to our brethren who hold American citizenship to be extra cautious during this presidential election, and wait to see ...
Read More »Study Links Climate Change With Lack Of Israel-Arab Resolution
“It’s almost as if this conflict really does lie at the core of every major problem facing civilization.” Gothenburg, October 19 – A team of scientists at the University of Gothenburg have found what they claim constitutes a firm causative ...
Read More »If Abbas Addresses Knesset, Joint List To Boycott Over ‘Normalization’
“To pursue a path of conciliation would be a shameful betrayal of our paths to date.” Umm el-Fahm, October 21 – Members of the Joint List political alliance of mostly Arab parties voiced concern today over rumors that Palestinian Authority ...
Read More »World Health Organization Calls Clouds Of Glory A Pollution Hazard
Israelite leaders accused the organization of bias. Wilderness of Zin, October 20 – In the midst of the Sukkot festival celebrating the divine protection manifest in the Clouds of Glory that surround the Israelites in their journey from servitude in ...
Read More »Israel To Have Russia Bomb Gaza So World Stays Silent
A Russian bombing campaign in the Gaza Strip would enable the use of far more brutal and destructive – and therefore effective – methods than the IDF allows itself to employ. Tel Aviv, October 19 – The relative equanimity with ...
Read More »Kids Excited To Move Fights From House To Sukkah
The children, ages two through fifteen, did not break stride as they transitioned from fighting over the presence of unwanted siblings in their bedrooms to fighting over whose turn it is to use the red sleeping bag. Jerusalem, October 18 ...
Read More »Those Fair Maidens From All Over My Empire Were Asking For It
By Ahashverosh, Emperor of Perso-Media I’m an accomplished man. You don’t get to rule a vast empire – from India to Ethiopia, as they say, a hundred-twenty-seven provinces – without political and economic acumen. I’ve got that in spades. Naturally, ...
Read More »UN Condemns Prague Golem As Violation Of Pillagers’ Rights
Representatives of the local clergy expressed satisfaction at the decision. Geneva, October 13 – The United Nations Human Rights Council held a session today on the Prague Jewish community’s use of a golem to defend against massacres by the non-Jewish ...
Read More »UNESCO Infuriates Palestinians By Calling Genocidal Ambitions ‘Syrian’
“We basically invented airplane hijacking as a political tool, but to hear UNESCO tell it, that was just a bunch of Syrians.” Paris, October 13 – On the heels of celebrating a decision by the United Nations Educational, Social, and ...
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