“This government continually boasts how the country made the desert bloom. Anyone with such power over nature is automatically suspect in inclement weather.” Jerusalem, May 15 – Members of the Arab Joint List delegation to Knesset denounced the government of ...
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Feed SubscriptionSyrian Lives Aren’t As Important As My Legacy
By Barack Obama Recent reports about Ben Rhodes, my foreign policy guru, and his alleged overselling of the Iran Deal have raised quite a few questions about my Middle East policy. To lay those questions to rest, let me be ...
Read More »UN: Israel Independence Day Fireworks Noise ‘Collective Punishment’
“The noisy displays rub salt in the collective would inflicted by Israel when the latter refused to be pushed into the sea.” Geneva, May 13 – The United Nations Human Rights Council again weighed in against Israel today, calling Wednesday ...
Read More »Muslims Protest Jewish Dominance Of International Tanakh Contest
“Clearly the selection of winners is far from random, which raises all sorts of red flags for a society that claims to be democratic and pluralistic,” said MK Zehava Gal-On. Jerusalem, May 12 – The annual ritual involving the final ...
Read More »Israelis To Honor Nature By Bickering In Lusher Setting
Ein Gedi Nature Reserve, May 12 – Israelis by the tens of thousands thousands took advantage of the Independence Day holiday to break from routine and argue in greener, more bucolic areas of the country for a change. Schools are closed and most ...
Read More »After Baghdad Bombing, Iraqi Officials Fear Islamophobic Backlash
Muslims have perpetrated 100% of the bombings in Baghdad since the collapse of Saddam Hussein’s regime. Baghdad, May 11 – Following the deaths of more than 60 people this morning in an Islamic State car bomb attack in the Iraqi ...
Read More »Study Links UK Labor Antisemitism With Days Ending In Y
Experts warned that correlation does not imply causation. London, May 11 – An analysis of the scale and drivers of antisemitism in Britain’s Labor Party has found a statistically significant correlation between the phenomenon and days ending in the letter y, ...
Read More »Uncertainty Whether Students Rolling Eyes, Sulking A Reaction To New Civics Text
The most indicative response has been a shrug of the shoulders and the word ‘Fine’ or ‘Whatever.’ Jerusalem, May 10 – Ministry of Education representatives urged caution today in assessing the behavior of high school students in response to a ...
Read More »No Israel-Nazi Comparisons In Today’s Haaretz? We’re Slacking
By Amos Schocken, Publisher Thank you for coming to this meeting, Haaretz staffers. Together we can continue to forge new paths in journalism. But we can only do so if we meet certain requirements for production and content -and today’s ...
Read More »Apparently, ‘A Stone’s Throw’ Supposed To Be Metaphor
“It just never occurred to any of us to take the term at anything but face value,” said Academy spokeswoman Yirga Muhu. Jerusalem, May 9 – Linguistic researchers at the Academy of the Hebrew Language were stunned this week to discover that ...
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