PreOccupied Territory The News In Advance. Barely.

The tension between ancient and modern exists throughout the developing world. Doha, January 5 – The recent World Cup contests and festivities in Qatar highlighted a salient long-term issue for the dictatorships and monarchies in the region, observers note, where ...

“It’s a lot more relatable than Napoleon or Bagration.” Amman, January 5 – Aspiring officers in the army of the Hashemite Kingdom began a new unit of their regimen this week, in which they will examine the tactical and operational ...

“We understand the decision even if we disagree with the reasoning behind it.” Beijing, January 4 – Diplomatic delegates representing Mahmoud Abbas lamented today that their advice to Xi Jinping and his administration on how to handle a resurgence of ...

“We are also aware of one special case of devotion involving urinating on the roof of the building, but not everyone reaches that level, so to speak.” Jerusalem, January 3- A local worshiper has taken the next logical step in ...

The planet and most of its inhabitants and social phenomena appeared unmoved by the frequent resort to such locutions as “hardline,” “far-right,” “nationalist,” “warmonger,” and “war criminal.” Jerusalem, January 2 – Dire predictions notwithstanding, the Earth continued this week to orbit ...

Huldai’s administration has faced allegations of insufficiently corrupt selection of the contractors engaged by the Tel Aviv-Jaffa Municipality. Tel Aviv, December 29 – Following an embarrassing episode in which city contractors painted a handicapped-only parking spot around an already-parked car ...

by Balila Haki, Btselem activist Tel Aviv, December 29 – I do not know how to make my organization’s position on this matter any clearer. Our assertion, born of dedication to moral sensitivity and global awareness, is and remains that ...

Iran would forge the Middle East into an independent region free of interference from those outsiders, controlled from Tehran instead of Washington, New York, London, or Tel Aviv. Tehran, December 28 – Leaders of the Islamic Republic formalized an initiative ...

Jewish refusal to accept Palestinian Muslim attacks with appropriate resignation is a blasphemous undermining of the proper order of things. Ramallah, December 27 – Opponents of Jewish control over Jewish security continued today to assail the world’s only Jewish state ...

Disappointing third-quarter results from the California Wildfire Initiative of the Harvey and Jeanette Weinberg Space Laser. New York, December 26 – Disappointing status reports came under review today at the shadowy Zionist organization that manipulates earthly events using advanced orbiting ...