PreOccupied Territory The News In Advance. Barely.

“The place was packed before that, easily eighty or ninety people.” Jerusalem, May 26 – Friday evening services this past weekend saw a dramatic occurrence at a local house of worship, when manifest dissatisfaction evident in the steady stream of ...

Obeisance to the sacred cow of Palestine First sparked resentment-tinged disdain for Palestinians whose cause always overshadowed the truly-important issues affecting the Middle East and the Arab world. Ramallah, May 25 – Shifting geopolitical considerations have wrought noticeable change in ...

by Agnès Callamard, Amnesty International Director-General London, May 24 – An increasing number of international organizations have concluded that Israel’s unequal treatment of Palestinians under its jurisdiction qualifies as the same race-based system of oppression that characterized South Africa for ...

Other factors the consultants found include wasteful, redundant contracts, conflicting jurisdictions, and corruption, none of which went against the way Hamas does things in Gaza anyway. New York, May 23 – Consultants from the militant Islamist movement that governs the Gaza Strip ...

“Our own citizens we can’t do anything about; heck, that’s our voter base.” Ben-Gurion Airport, May 19 – The Ministry of Health eliminated the requirement this week for all incoming passengers to undergo swabbing for the SARS-CoV-2 pathogen, instead leaving ...

“There’s been no organized effort to kill reporters and blame Israel. That changes with this initiative.” Jenin, May 19 – A militant terrorist group focused on removing Jewish sovereignty from the Levant in the name of Allah has commissioned new ...

“Anything has to be better than Netanyahu. Unless he offers me to share the premiership, which obviously is what the country needs, provided I get to go first.” Jerusalem, May 18 – Ministers and officials in the embattled government and ...

“The Jews who came from Europe aren’t real Jews because their ancestors weren’t from here. Please ignore that my family name means ‘the Kurd.'” Jerusalem, May 17 – Activists stressed the important distinction today between the lack of ancestral legitimacy ...

“It’s just not fair that they get one and we don’t get all three.” Jerusalem, May 16 – A loose coalition of diverse ideological and political groups with collective access to a pair of sites central to the founding of ...

by Stanislaw Kaczynski Warsaw, May 12 – Listen, I know some influential folks are up in arms about one group taking elements of another group’s cultural heritage and either commodifying them or integrating them into their own, and I get the ...