“Iran gets a secure location to pursue its peaceful weapons program, where foreign military operations will not reach it. The U.S. removes the materials and processes of concern from Iran. Win-win.” St. Paul, May 2 – Two prominent members of Congress ...
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Feed SubscriptionActivist Documenting All Apartheid In Israel Exhausts Research In 12 Minutes, Seeks Suggestions For Stuff To Do Rest Of Month
“Is this one of those things where we change the long-established definition of a term so we can paint Israel as violating it, like we did with ‘seller-colonialism,’ ‘ethnic cleansing,’ and ‘genocide’?” Tel Aviv, April 28 – The holder of ...
Read More »Israel Agrees To Provide Military Aid To Ukraine: Tractors To Tow Abandoned Russian Tanks
The equipment will also assist Ukraine in the identification and exposure of mass graves. Tel Aviv, April 28 – Months of pressure from Kiev and from other diplomatic and activist sources have persuaded the Ministry of Defense of the Jewish ...
Read More »Share Of Palestinians Who See Jews As Human Doubles, To .002%
A minority of analysts raised the possibility that wider Arab normalization with Israel has affected Palestinian attitudes. Ramallah, April 27 – A survey of public opinion in the Gaza Strip and West Bank shows a marked rise in the popularity of viewing ...
Read More »In Gaffe, God Forgets To Refer To Land Promised To Israelites As ‘West Bank’
“We wish to clarify that the eternal truth of the land’s rightful possessors remains Islamic-Palestinian, regardless of every other piece of the mountainous evidence demonstrating to any honest observer that He made it the eternal Jewish homeland.” Land of the ...
Read More »Practitioners Of Slavery Right Now Happy To Foment Anger At Jews For Alleged Slave Trade Prominence Centuries Ago
Part of a phenomenon in which Al Jazeera tries to paint the most tolerant, free, and secure society in history, as the most oppressive, racist, corrupt, culture the world has ever seen even as Qatar pursues policies that would make an eighteenth-century ...
Read More »Sorry, I’m Still Working On My Op-Ed Arguing Selling Chametz To Non-Jews Is Exploitative
By Peter Beinart To: Dean Baquet, Executive Editor, NY times I must offer my apologies, Dean. I know that a week or two ago we agreed that I would supply an opinion article for the Times exploring the myriad ways ...
Read More »New ‘Globalize Intifada!’ Call Makes Man Who Attacked NY Jews For Years Feel His Efforts Ignored
“My biggest fear,” admitted Jamal, “is that my efforts will free Palestine, but the so-called leaders of the Free Palestine movement won’t even know, and they’ll take all the credit for my hard work.” Brooklyn, April 21 – A Crown ...
Read More »Teen Wonders What Big Deal About ‘New Middle East’ If He Still Has Curfew
“Abraham Accords, my foot,” he spat, using a dismissive Hebrew idiom that literally translates as “it interests my grandmother.” Ofakim, April 20 – A high schooler disparaged the unprecedented recent détente between Israel and several longtime Arab enemies by noting ...
Read More »Instead Of U.S. Defense Umbrella, Blinken Offers Mideast Allies Actual Umbrella
The Middle East rainy season ended last month. Sde Boker, Negev Desert, April 19 – The American secretary of state gathered in this community two weeks ago with leaders from around the region who came together in the face of the ...
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