Rome, July 21 – Just two months after a landmark visit to the Holy Land by Pope Francis, Catholics around the world are encouraged by the visit’s lasting impact on efforts to bring peace to the region. Francis visited Israel ...
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Feed SubscriptionIraqis, Syrians Sure Europeans To Protest On Their Behalf Any Day Now
Mosul, Iraq, July 20 – The embattled residents of this northwest Iraq city are certain that any day now, protesters in European capitals will take to the streets to call for the world to step in and stop the bloodshed ...
Read More »How Depraved Do We Have To Get?
By Khaled Mashal How evil do we have to be for the international community to realize we’re little more than a bunch of murderous thugs? For crying out loud, we use our OWN children as human shields! Does this not strike ...
Read More »NRA Curiously Silent On Rampant Guns Making Mideast So Safe
Washington, DC, July 19 – Conservative thinkers across the US expressed bewilderment this week upon realizing that the nation’s premier gun-rights advocacy group is missing a golden opportunity to argue for freer access to firearms by invoking the situation in ...
Read More »Palestinians Upset People Paying Attention To Ukraine Now
Doha, Qatar, July 18 – Unable to accept that the world cares about people other than Palestinians, officials of various Palestinian factions are accusing whoever shot down a jetliner over Ukraine yesterday of attempting to divert the world’s attention from ...
Read More »Environmentalists Slam Israel’s ‘Profligate Use Of Paper’ Warning Civilians
Tel Aviv, July 17 – Representatives of several ecologically-minded organizations leveled criticism at Israel’s conduct of Operation Protective Edge today upon discovering that the IDF has been dropping thousands of leaflets to warn Gazans of impending airstrikes. They called the ...
Read More »NY Times Editor Discovers Word ‘Terrorist’ In Dictionary
New York, July 16 – New York Times Executive Editor Dean Baquet expressed surprise today upon discovering the word “terrorist” in the dictionary, to the point that he repeatedly showed the entry to every other person in the newsroom he ...
Read More »Hamas Rockets Leave Leftists Buried Under Collapsed Ideology
North Tel Aviv, July 16 – While Hamas rocket-launch teams in Gaza continue their so-far-unsuccessful attempt to sow widespread death and destruction among the Israeli civilian population, the Home Front Command today reported a sharp increase in referrals of leftist Israelis for ...
Read More »Angels Arguing For Another Round Of Cartoon-Instigated Muslim Violence
Heaven, July 16 – Supernal sources are reporting that several influential archangels are lobbying the Almighty for another set of riots in the Muslim world ostensibly sparked by Western cartoons offensive to Islam, since the first time around was so ...
Read More »Hamas Militant Can’t Wait to Be Killed By Superior Firepower
Gaza City, Gaza Strip – Ahmad Dahlan 22, is in many ways your typical resident of the Gaza Strip: young, unemployed, fervently Muslim and uncompromisingly anti-Israel. He also boasts an infectious enthusiasm for being shot, dismembered, burned, crushed or otherwise ...
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