“I might just close the restaurant for the day and take my family to an amusement park – but I bet they had better ones at Sobibor.” Gaza City, December 30 – The culinary chief and manager of Masri, a ...
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Feed SubscriptionWhite House Staff Report Obama Keeps Seeing Ghost Of Nixon
He even issued an order yesterday that the thirty-seventh president is not to be mentioned in his presence. Washington, December 30 – Aides to the president expressed concern for his mental health this week, saying that Barack Obama keeps asking ...
Read More »After Olmert Convicted, Land Developers At Loss How To Do Job
Developers have yet to arrive at a process for gaining governmental approval for their projects that does not involve the illicit provision of money or favors. Jerusalem, December 28 – Building developers across Israel expressed bewilderment and frustration at the upheld ...
Read More »Herzog To Knesset Security: No Visitor IDs; ‘Jews Don’t Label Jews’
He invoked the identifying badges or garments Jews were forced to wear at various times and places in history. Jerusalem, December 29 – Opposition leader Isaac Herzog objected today to the current security measures in place at the parliamentary compound, ...
Read More »Palestinians Petition UNESCO Over Israeli Appropriation Of Terrorism
“It poses a serious challenge to the Palestinian sense of unique identity.” Paris, December 28 – Representatives of the Palestinian Authority submitted a formal complaint to the United Nations’ main cultural body today over some extremist Israelis’ use of terrorism, ...
Read More »NGO Funding?! Only WE’RE Allowed To Label Where Things Are From!
By the European Union The legislation approved by Israel’s cabinet yesterday, requiring that NGOs receiving more than half their finding from foreign governments be marked as such in all their dealings in the Knesset, violates a central principle of democracy: only ...
Read More »To Prevent Incitement At Weddings, Rabbis Mull Ban On Weddings
“Banning weddings would constitute an unwarranted impingement on free expression,” declared a spokeswoman for the Association for Civil Rights in Israel. Jerusalem, December 27 – The week after video surfaced of extremist Jewish youth at a wedding, celebrating the murder ...
Read More »Arab Gulf States Would Take Refugees, But Gee, Mom Staying There Now
“Well, of all the rotten luck,” empathized Minister of Internal Affairs Ayyam Adik. Riyadh, December 27 – Sources in the oil-rich nations of the Persian Gulf report that those countries would be more than happy to welcome a sizable number ...
Read More »Galloway Seeks Return To Labor After Nazis Reject Him As Too Racist
“Dude…no,” said a Nazi representative. London, December 23 – Firebrand MP and former Mayor of Bradford George Galloway expressed a desire to return to Labor, following his failure to join the Nazi Party, who dismissed him as too racially prejudiced. ...
Read More »Frank Costanza’s Car Still In Good Spot Near Tel Aviv Theater
“He’s got the good spot in front of the good building in the good neighborhood.” Tel Aviv, December 24 – Nearly a week after he attended a pair of shows by his son’s best friend in this Mediterranean city, Frank ...
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