PreOccupied Territory The News In Advance. Barely.

Hamas and Palestinian Islamic Jihad have received arms and funding from Iran, so the similar treatment is doubly suitable. New York, September 17 – Media outlets expecting to report on the development of Iranian atomic weapons will adopt the same ...

The Russian leader assured the international community that if such episodes occur, his soldiers would only stand on the sidelines and cheer. Moscow, September 16 – Russian President Vladimir Putin sought to assuage international concern over his country’s growing military ...

“There’s the part of the Yom Kippur liturgy in which there’s a confession that talks about things that will get you stoned, but it turns out that means something totally not cool.” Sacramento, September 13 – Marijuana enthusiasts expressed dismay ...

Zandberg said she had not once spied a bartender in traditional Muslim garb, and concluded that discrimination must be the root cause of that absence. Jerusalem, September 9 – New legislation brought by the left-wing Meretz Party would outlaw what ...

Saddam Hussein is similarly living unmolested in the area. Bnei Brak, September 10 – Four years after his death was faked at a villa in Pakistan, 9/11 mastermind Osama Bin Laden has made a smooth transition to the lifestyle of a ...

However, especially in the case of Jewish graves, a thorough effort must be made to damage, deface, or otherwise vandalize them. Cairo, September 10 – A leading religious authority in the Sunni Muslim world issued a landmark ruling today in ...

The writing contains fiction that illuminates the human condition as seen from inside the minds of characters unable to see outside a certain myopic framing of the region’s troubles. New York, September 9 – The paper of record added another ...

“Here they can live free lives, and no one will threaten to expose them to non-Edward-Saidian thought.” Doha, Qatar, September 9 – Amid growing attention to oil-rich countries around the Persian Gulf not absorbing any of the millions of people fleeing ...

“Physical passages are not the only way to tunnel into the enemy’s rear.” Bekaa Valley, Lebanon, September 8 – While mired in a punishing conflict inside Syria, Lebanon’s Shiite militia Hezbollah has been keeping an eye on its neighbor to the ...

“In fact the term ‘Knesset’ is merely a corruption of an indigenous Arabic name for the region, Knish.” Jerusalem, September 7 – Joint Arab List Member of Knesset Jamal Zahalka laced into lawmakers from the Labor Party this afternoon, saying ...