PreOccupied Territory The News In Advance. Barely.

“We’ve always had a nagging sense that we needed to go back and tackle this topic.” Las Vegas, August 30 – A duo of prominent stage magicians known for their outspoken stances on political issues and for their vocal support ...

By Rania Massoul, Palestinian mother of 6 Waleed, you know the rules: all chores and homework must be finished before you are allowed to play with your friends, no matter how far in advance you arranged this play date. You ...

Moses has yet to respond to the demand, which gives him a deadline of nightfall tomorrow to decide between including the passage in the Torah and maintaining the fragile coalition. Wilderness of Shur, April 25 – Ultra-Orthodox members of Moses’s ...

“Technology, politics, health care, and Jew-killing aren’t nearly as straightforward as they used to be.” Baghdad, August 24 – Rashid Muhammad, 90, has seen technological and economic advancement in his many years, but still considers his youth in Iraq a ...

Community leaders among the ultra-orthodox have been engaged to prevent violence. Jerusalem, August 24 – An application by a group of non-Jews to march through the capital city of the Jewish State in a demonstration of political and cultural defiance ...

The need for “vitamin P,” as it is sometimes called, pervades almost every aspect of life in Israel, including leisure activities. Holon, August 25 – A serial killer who specializes in murdering his victims using wood-chopping implements complained today that the ...

If adopted by Israel, that approach could yield significant financial, diplomatic, political, and strategic benefits. Tel Aviv, August 25 – The Obama administration’s accommodating attitude toward Iran’s hostage-taking of Americans has prompted Israeli military and political policymakers to consider adopting ...

“It goes against everything Western society stands for, to discriminate against Muslims like that,” he said of Trump’s proposal. Cannes, August 24 – A country where ten separate municipalities have enacted a prohibition against attire traditionally worn by Muslim women ...

By Awad Shukri, stabber Being in Hell has its drawbacks, as you can well imagine. Beyond not getting seventy-two virgins, I experience the profound and abiding eternal torment of shame for my hideous choices in the material world. It’s no picnic. ...

“If the government can plausibly claim there are no Arabs here, they have a convenient pretext to exclude Arabs from all the workings of government.” Jerusalem, August 23 – Legislators from the Joint List political alliance of Arab parties in the ...