PreOccupied Territory The News In Advance. Barely.

Only by letting suffering dominate the physical and psychological landscape can the sacred mission approach fulfillment. Khan Yunis, March 15 – Hamas authorities in this autonomous coastal territory have begun harassing a local resident, witnesses report, because he fails to ...

“Anti-Zionism is totally different – it just takes those tropes and replaces ‘Jewish’ with ‘Zionist’ and that makes it OK.” Southfield, March 14 – A woman killed in a massacre at a synagogue issued a metaphorical exhalation today upon learning that ...

by Abier Khatib, keyboard warrior and pro-Palestinian activist New York, March 10 – Folks, we have a problem: all that online engagement on Twitter and Instagram, promoting our narrative and debating against Zios has yet to produce the desired effect. ...

The Ukraine crisis, has made the situation tense enough that his parents are primed to believe anything about Russian capabilities and intentions. Kiryat Bialik, March 10 – A local adolescent expressed relief today that Putin’s forces have been disrupting geolocation service ...

Israel’s Arab and Muslim foes have been relegated to an area barely more than a hundred times Israel’s size, and they feel the squeeze. Jerusalem, March 9 – An ethnic cohort composing the overwhelming majority of the Middle East’s demographics ...

“Bibi was horrible, don’t get me wrong, but this… this is differently horrible.” Jerusalem, March 8 – Prime Minister Naftali Bennett, his cabinet ministers, and fellow Coalition members have evidently decided to demonstrate to the Israeli public that ousting the ...

“And don’t get me started on dishes. My thinking has really, really come around of late on the whole Biblical miracle thing. It’s much more plausible now.” Mevasseret Tzion, March 7 – A mother of three children in this middle-class Jerusalem suburb ...

They plan to spend the next several years gallivanting various places, because their services appear unneeded for at least that long. London, March 4 – Researchers from a prominent international human rights organization informed journalists today that now that their work ...

A bigotry that Europeans thought they had vanquished in their society long ago. Frankfurt, March 23 – Europeans who view attacks targeting synagogues and related community institutions as a legitimate form of protest against Jerusalem’s policies vis-à-vis Palestinians now find ...

by Josep Borell, European Commission Foreign Policy Chair Brussels, March 2 – My favorite foreign policy fiction that everyone pretends true involves the underwriting, support, and guidance for projects that ostensibly grew out of organic, local efforts, when in fact ...