PreOccupied Territory The News In Advance. Barely.

Haifa, December 18 – Israeli households struggling to make ends meet are awash with gratitude over a new and more pressing source of stress than the classic challenges of hostile regimes and populations. A national poverty report released Wednesday found that ...

By Alfred Nobel Wait, wait, run that by me again: the Norwegian Nobel Committee awarded my flagship prize to a lifelong terrorist? If I weren’t dead already I’d die from shock. You folks evidently have no idea what you’re doing. ...

Peshawar, Pakistan, December 17 – Pakistani Taliban competitors surprised judges and spectators alike this week by pulling off a surprise finish in the current round of the Brutality Games by attacking a school, narrowly supplanting Hamas in second place and ...

Bnei Brak, Israel, December 16 – Israeli ultra-orthodox Jews voiced confusion this week upon seeing vast stretches of foreign cities and towns decorated with tinsel, a material obviously intended for the Sukkah. The holiday of Sukkot ended two months ago, ...

Gaza City, December 15 – A scathing analysis of the material imparted to Palestinian students at UN-administered schools has generated international pressure to cut from the curriculum incitement against Israel and Jews, leading the organization running the schools to promise to ...

Khan Yunis, December 14 – The Islamist leadership of the Gaza Strip revealed a new weapon in its arsenal Sunday, then immediately told residents it was sorry for removing the weapon’s attire like some immoral Westerner. To celebrate 27 years since ...

Damascus, December 13 – Activists in the Boycott, Divest, and Sanctions movement targeting Israel for its alleged human rights violations against Palestinians have set up a station to watch the average kinetic energy of Hell in case it approached freezing, ...

Ramallah, December 11 – Palestinian leaders are voicing regret that they left out beheading in the various conflicting descriptions of how Israeli soldiers killed a Palestinian official yesterday. Ziab Abu Ein was taking part in a rock-throwing demonstration against Israel ...

Ramallah, December 10 – The Palestinian Authority announced today that it had added the name of the man who stabbed a Lubavicher Hasid in Brooklyn early Tuesday morning to its roster of martyrs whose families receive pensions. Late last night a ...