In the last six months a total of eleven youths have received suspensions and twenty-nine more were placed on probation, numbers that represent a threefold increase since 2005. Ramallah, December 1 – A Palestinian youth who regularly hurls rocks and ...
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Feed SubscriptionMubarak Case Collapses, Killing 1
Cairo, November 30 – The magistrate overseeing former Egyptian President Hosni Mubarak’s trial on murder and corruption charges decided to drop the case yesterday, causing the case to collapse, kill at least one person, and injure an unknown number. Mubarak, now ...
Read More »Cricket Judge Death Shocks Israel With Existence Of Cricket
Ashdod, November 29 – An umpire at an informal game of cricket died this afternoon after being struck by the ball, sending shock waves throughout the country as people discovered the sport exists. The 58-year-old man was hit in the chest ...
Read More »Ferguson Protesters Puzzled By Security Council Inaction
Ferguson, Missouri, November 28 – African-American residents of this town and their supporters from around the nation have yet to hear from either the United Nations Security Council or its Human Rights Council, disappointing many who expected at least one ...
Read More »New Haredi Trend Sees Men Recircumcise Selves As Adults
Bnei Brak, November 27 – Growing stringency in the practice of Jewish law among the ultra-orthodox has a new generation of adherents arranging to undergo circumcision a second – and sometimes third – time after they reach adulthood, observers report. ...
Read More »All Palestinians Wish To Become Martyrs – Well, Those Not In Office
By Mahmoud Abbas, Palestinian President I have said it before and I shall say it again: all Palestinians desire to become holy martyrs in the struggle for our land. Well, all Palestinians except us, the ones in power. Let’s be honest here. ...
Read More »Stupidity, Inanity Vying To Become Cause Of Early Elections
Jerusalem, November 26 – Two of the most powerful forces in government – stupidity and inanity – continue to compete with each other for supremacy in bringing about the collapse of Prime Minister Netanyahu’s coalition, Knesset sources reported today. Stupidity ...
Read More »IDF Developing Flying Pigs To Better Destroy Palestinian Agriculture
Kibbutz Lahav, November 25 – Israel’s efforts to drive Palestinian farmers off their lands received a boost this week with the announcement that the army would partner with local pig breeders to develop flying pigs for release in Palestinian agricultural ...
Read More »Hamas To End Candy Celebration Of Dead Jews, Citing Diabetes
Gaza City, November 24 – The Palestinian government today ordered Palestinians to cease distributing sweets when terrorists kill Jews, saying that the practice puts Gaza’s population at greater risk for developing diabetes. The Ministry of Health released new guidelines today following the ...
Read More »American Expats Looking Forward To Pale Imitation Of Thanksgiving
Tel Aviv, November 23 – Residents of Israel who spent their formative years in the US are eagerly anticipating Thanksgiving celebrations this Thursday that will invariably fail to live up to their hype, sources close to the expatriate community reported ...
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