“If washed-up performers such as Elvis Costello can desperately insert themselves into headlines by announcing a boycott, there’s no reason we can’t ride the same wave.” Mahwah, New Jersey, November 1 – A local band struggling to make a name ...
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Feed SubscriptionMy Scariest Halloween Costume? Palestinian Accountability
By Mahmoud Abbas, President, Palestinian National Authority Ramallah, November 1 – Islamic societies naturally have different cultural touchstones from those of the West, given their vastly different origins. I nevertheless appreciate some of the Western cultural phenomena despite their foreignness, ...
Read More »Palestinian Researchers: Knives Can Also Be Used For Cutting Food
The results of the study will appear in the upcoming issue of the journal Scientific Testing And Beyond (STAB). Hebron, October 28 – Scientists at Ramallah’s Bir Zeit University have made a surprising revelation, discovering this week that the stabbing ...
Read More »Palestinians To Accommodate Haredim By Not Stabbing Them On Sabbath
Several helpful users provided handy diagrams to help the uninitiated distinguish between traditional Haredi garb and various Goth-type fashion trends. Jerusalem, October 30 – Leaders in the Palestinian community urged their followers today to show some religious tolerance by avoiding ...
Read More »Cabinet To Vote On Peace Pact With Nablus-Area Plumber
If the cabinet approves the agreement, it will be brought to the Knesset, and then, under a law passed during the previous government’s tenure, to a national referendum. Jerusalem, October 29 – The political fragmentation of Palestinian society has led ...
Read More »Palestinian Newsmen Accused Of Witchcraft For Conjuring ‘Witnesses’
Editors and other supervisors of the accused persons might also face disciplinary action, but the nature of that action is left to the discretion of the judiciary. Ramallah, October 29 – The official Palestinian news agency Ma’an found itself on ...
Read More »In Quirk, None Of Amnesty Witnesses To Violence Are Jewish
Amnesty’s eyewitnesses also, by coincidence, uniformly question the other evidence regarding the episodes, notably the use of knives or other sharp implements to attack Jews. Jerusalem, October 28 – In what scientists are calling a miracle of statistics, none of ...
Read More »Roger Waters Livid At Israeli Reverence For Wall
“I’m going to put a stop to this nonsense. Even if it takes two thousand years.” New York, October 28 – A leading figure in the movement to impose a cultural boycott on Israel expressed shock and anger today that ...
Read More »Report: No One Accuses US Blacks Of Loyalty To Liberia
Despite the parallels between Liberia and Israel, the study found that almost no one accuses African-Americans of placing loyalty to their brethren in West Africa above loyalty to the US. Washington, October 27 – A recent study shows that despite ...
Read More »Netanyahu Unveils “I’m Being Stabbed” App
By January a companion app called I’m Being Firebombed will launch, to serve users under attack with Molotov cocktails. Jerusalem, October 26 – At a meeting of the Foreign Relations and Defense Committee today, Prime Minister Binyamin Netanyahu told attendees ...
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