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 ...
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Feed SubscriptionNY Times Mideast Coverage Wins Pulitzer For Fiction
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 ...
Read More »Arab Gulf States To Accept Refugees From US Academia
“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 ...
Read More »Hamas-Hezbollah Rockets Programmed To Avoid Leftists
“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 ...
Read More »Joint List MK Says Labor Killed Arab MKs, Stole Their Seats
“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 ...
Read More »Palestinian Boy Stubs Toe
Family members rushed to help, slightly injuring eight cameramen who had been transferred from covering the Syrian conflict. Yatta, near Hebron, September 7 – A Palestinian boy on his way to school this morning accidentally hurt his toe on a ...
Read More »Is Four Images Of Bar Refaeli Per Day Enough For The Home Page?
By Oded Shahar, Ynet Intern Pardon me, Mr. Home Page Editor? It’s Oded, Oded Shahar – I just started as an intern here last week, and, well – I just need to know as a general rule, is four images ...
Read More »Haaretz To Boycott Israeli Advertisers
Haaretz’s new policy will take effect on the first day of October to avoid the complications of advertising packages already sold to Israeli companies and organizations. Tel Aviv, September 6 – The editorial board at Israel’s Haaretz daily voted this ...
Read More »Pre-Muhammad Quran Suggests Muslims Also Stole ‘Apes And Pigs’ Epithet
Scholars remain divided on the implications, primarily because the dating of the document cannot be pinned down precisely. Birmingham, England, September 1 – Scientists examining the newly discovered Quran segment in a Birmingham library revealed today that the document may ...
Read More »Not Killing Trainfuls Of Unwanted People A New Experience For Europe
The situation pits the Continental culture’s stated commitment to universal human rights against its proven will to kill off undesirables. Budapest, September 4 – The Continent has absorbed hundreds of thousands of refugees from Africa and the Middle East this year, ...
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